1 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-??-??
3 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
4 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
6 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
7 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
9 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
14 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
15 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
16 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
18 o New directory authorities:
19 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
25 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
28 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
29 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
33 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
34 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
35 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
36 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
37 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
38 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
39 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
40 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
41 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
42 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
43 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
45 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
46 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
47 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
49 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
50 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
51 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
52 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
53 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
57 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
58 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
59 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
60 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
61 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
64 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
65 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
66 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
69 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
70 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
71 part of patch provided by "optimist".
74 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
75 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
76 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
77 and confuse fewer users.
80 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
81 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
82 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
83 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
84 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
85 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
86 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
89 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
90 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
91 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
92 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
93 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
94 other features and bug fixes.
97 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
100 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
101 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
102 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
103 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
104 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
107 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
108 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
109 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
110 failure message (oops).
113 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
114 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
115 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
116 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
120 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
121 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
122 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
123 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
124 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
125 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
126 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
127 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
128 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
129 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
130 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
131 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
132 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
133 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
134 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
137 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
138 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
139 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
140 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
141 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
142 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
143 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
144 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
145 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
146 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
147 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
148 Workaround for bug 1024.
149 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
153 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
154 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
155 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
158 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
160 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
161 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
162 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
163 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
164 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
167 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
168 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
169 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
170 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
171 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
172 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
173 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
174 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
175 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
176 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
179 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
180 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
181 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
182 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
183 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
184 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
185 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
186 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
189 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
190 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
191 a bunch of minor bugs.
194 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
195 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
196 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
198 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
199 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
200 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
201 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
203 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
207 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
208 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
209 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
211 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
212 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
214 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
215 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
217 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
218 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
219 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
220 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
221 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
222 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
223 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
224 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
226 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
227 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
228 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
230 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
231 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
232 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
233 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
234 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
238 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
239 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
240 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
243 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
244 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
245 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
246 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
248 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
249 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
250 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
251 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
252 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
253 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
254 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
255 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
256 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
257 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
258 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
259 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
260 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
261 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
262 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
263 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
264 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
266 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
267 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
268 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
269 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
271 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
272 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
273 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
276 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
277 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
278 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
279 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
280 addresses to fall out of the directory.
283 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
284 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
285 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
286 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
288 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
289 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
290 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
291 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
292 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
293 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
294 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
295 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
296 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
297 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
298 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
299 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
300 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
302 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
303 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
306 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
307 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
308 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
309 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
310 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
311 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
313 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
314 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
315 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
316 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
317 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
319 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
322 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
323 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
325 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
326 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
327 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
328 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
329 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
330 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
332 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
333 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
334 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
335 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
336 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
337 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
338 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
339 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
340 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
341 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
342 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
343 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
347 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
348 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
349 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
352 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
353 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
354 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
356 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
357 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
358 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
359 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
360 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
361 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
362 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
363 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
364 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
365 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
366 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
367 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
368 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
369 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
370 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
371 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
372 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
373 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
374 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
375 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
376 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
377 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
378 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
379 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
380 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
381 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
383 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
384 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
385 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
386 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
387 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
388 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
389 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
390 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
391 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
392 of 0. Suggested by lark.
394 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
395 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
396 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
397 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
398 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
401 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
403 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
404 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
405 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
406 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
409 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
410 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
411 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
412 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
413 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
415 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
416 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
417 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
418 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
421 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
422 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
423 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
424 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
425 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
426 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
427 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
428 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
431 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
432 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
433 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
434 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
437 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
438 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
439 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
440 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
441 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
442 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
445 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
446 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
447 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
448 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
449 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
450 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
453 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
454 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
455 reported by Matt Edman.
456 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
458 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
459 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
460 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
461 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
463 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
464 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
465 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
466 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
467 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
468 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
469 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
470 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
471 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
472 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
473 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
474 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
475 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
476 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
477 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
478 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
479 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
480 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
481 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
484 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
485 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
486 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
487 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
490 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
491 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
492 the letter of C99's alias rules.
495 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
496 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
497 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
498 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
500 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
501 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
502 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
505 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
506 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
509 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
510 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
511 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
512 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
513 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
515 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
516 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
517 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
518 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
519 identify a connection.
520 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
521 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
522 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
523 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
524 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
525 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
526 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
527 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
528 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
529 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
531 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
532 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
533 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
534 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
535 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
536 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
537 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
540 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
541 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
543 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
544 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
545 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
546 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
547 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
548 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
549 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
550 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
552 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
553 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
554 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
555 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
556 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
557 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
558 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
559 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
560 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
561 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
562 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
563 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
564 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
565 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
566 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
567 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
568 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
569 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
570 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
571 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
572 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
573 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
574 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
575 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
576 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
577 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
578 840. Patch from rovv.
579 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
580 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
581 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
583 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
584 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
585 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
586 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
587 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
588 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
589 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
591 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
592 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
593 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
596 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
597 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
599 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
600 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
601 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
602 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
603 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
604 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
605 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
606 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
607 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
609 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
611 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
612 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
616 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
617 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
618 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
619 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
620 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
621 have had some time to upgrade.)
624 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
625 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
628 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
629 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
630 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
631 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
632 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
635 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
636 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
638 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
639 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
640 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
641 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
642 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
643 entirely. Patch from coderman.
646 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
647 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
648 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
649 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
650 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
651 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
652 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
656 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
657 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
658 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
659 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
660 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
661 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
662 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
665 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
666 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
667 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
668 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
669 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
671 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
672 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
673 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
674 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
675 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
676 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
677 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
678 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
679 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
680 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
684 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
685 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
686 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
688 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
689 without support for deprecated functions.
690 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
692 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
693 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
694 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
695 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
696 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
697 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
698 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
699 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
700 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
701 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
702 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
703 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
704 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
705 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
706 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
707 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
708 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
709 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
710 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
711 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
712 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
713 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
714 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
716 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
717 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
718 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
719 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
720 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
721 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
723 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
724 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
725 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
726 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
727 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
729 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
730 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
731 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
733 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
734 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
737 o Deprecated and removed features:
738 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
739 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
740 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
743 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
744 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
745 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
746 with log.h on Android.
747 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
748 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
751 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
752 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
754 o New directory authorities:
755 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
759 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
760 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
761 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
762 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
763 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
764 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
767 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
768 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
769 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
770 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
771 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
772 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
773 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
774 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
776 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
777 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
778 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
779 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
782 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
783 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
785 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
786 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
787 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
788 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
789 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
790 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
791 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
792 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
793 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
794 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
795 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
796 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
797 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
798 Implements proposal 148.
799 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
800 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
801 system to do it for us.
802 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
803 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
804 this fix will be slightly helpful.
805 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
806 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
807 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
808 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
809 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
810 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
811 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
812 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
813 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
816 o Minor features (controller):
817 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
818 been fetched and validated.
819 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
820 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
821 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
822 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
823 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
824 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
827 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
828 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
829 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
830 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
831 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
833 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
834 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
835 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
836 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
837 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
838 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
839 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
840 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
841 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
843 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
844 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
845 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
846 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
847 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
848 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
849 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
850 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
852 o Deprecated and removed features:
853 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
855 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
856 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
857 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
859 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
860 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
861 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
863 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
864 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
865 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
866 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
867 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
868 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
871 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
872 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
873 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
874 fixes a variety of other issues.
877 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
878 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
879 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
880 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
883 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
884 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
885 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
886 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
889 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
890 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
891 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
895 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
897 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
898 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
899 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
900 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
901 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
902 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
903 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
905 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
906 rest, and don't automatically fail.
907 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
908 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
909 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
910 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
912 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
913 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
914 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
915 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
916 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
917 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
918 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
919 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
920 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
921 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
923 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
927 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
928 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
929 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
931 o Minor features (controller):
932 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
936 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
937 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
938 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
939 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
940 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
941 variety of other issues.
944 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
945 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
946 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
947 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
948 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
949 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
950 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
951 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
952 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
953 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
954 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
955 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
958 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
959 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
961 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
962 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
963 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
964 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
965 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
966 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
967 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
968 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
969 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
970 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
971 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
972 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
973 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
974 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
975 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
979 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
980 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
981 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
982 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
983 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
984 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
985 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
986 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
987 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
988 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
989 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
990 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
991 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
992 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
993 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
994 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
995 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
996 list. It has been gone for many months.
997 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
998 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
999 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
1002 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1003 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
1004 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
1007 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
1008 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
1009 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
1010 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
1011 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
1012 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
1013 variety of other issues.
1016 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
1017 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
1018 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
1019 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
1020 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
1021 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
1022 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
1023 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
1024 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
1025 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
1026 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
1027 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
1028 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
1029 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
1032 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
1033 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
1034 Suggested by Lucky Green.
1035 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
1036 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
1037 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
1038 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
1039 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
1040 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
1042 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
1043 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
1045 o Hidden service performance improvements:
1046 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
1047 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
1048 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
1049 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
1050 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
1051 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
1052 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
1053 faster after restart.
1056 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
1057 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
1058 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
1059 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
1060 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
1061 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
1062 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
1063 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
1064 840. Patch from rovv.
1065 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
1066 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
1067 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
1068 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
1069 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
1070 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
1071 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
1072 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
1073 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
1075 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
1076 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
1077 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
1078 have already been marked for close.
1079 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
1080 introduction points.
1081 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
1082 memory performance during directory parsing.
1083 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
1084 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
1085 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
1086 because of a pending download.
1089 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
1090 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
1091 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
1092 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1095 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
1096 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
1097 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
1098 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
1099 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
1100 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
1101 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
1102 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
1103 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
1104 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
1105 lookups more reliable.
1106 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
1107 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
1108 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
1109 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
1110 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
1111 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
1112 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1115 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
1116 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
1117 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1118 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
1119 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
1120 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
1121 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
1122 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
1123 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
1124 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
1125 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
1127 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
1128 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
1129 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
1130 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
1131 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
1132 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1133 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
1134 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
1135 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1138 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
1139 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
1140 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
1141 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
1142 locked down these days.
1143 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
1144 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
1145 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
1146 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
1147 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
1149 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
1150 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
1151 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
1152 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
1153 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
1154 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
1155 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
1156 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
1157 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
1158 people find host:port too confusing.
1159 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
1160 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1161 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
1164 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1166 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
1167 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
1168 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
1169 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
1170 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
1172 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
1173 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
1174 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
1175 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
1176 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
1177 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
1178 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
1179 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
1180 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
1181 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
1182 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
1183 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
1185 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
1186 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
1187 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
1188 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
1189 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
1190 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
1191 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1192 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
1193 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
1195 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
1196 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
1197 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
1198 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
1199 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
1200 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1201 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
1202 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
1203 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
1204 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
1205 bug 820, reported by seeess.
1206 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
1207 list. It has been gone for many months.
1209 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1210 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
1211 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
1212 actual mistakes we're making here.
1213 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
1214 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
1215 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
1216 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
1219 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
1220 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
1221 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
1222 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1225 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
1226 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
1227 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
1228 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
1229 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
1230 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
1232 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
1233 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
1234 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
1235 pointed out by rovv.
1238 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
1239 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1240 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
1241 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1242 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
1243 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
1244 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
1245 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
1246 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
1247 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1248 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
1249 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
1250 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
1251 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1252 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
1253 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
1254 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
1255 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
1256 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
1257 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
1258 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
1261 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
1262 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
1263 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
1264 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
1265 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
1266 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
1267 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1270 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
1272 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
1273 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
1274 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
1275 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
1276 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
1277 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
1278 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
1280 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
1281 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
1282 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
1283 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
1284 known descriptor before building circuits.
1286 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
1287 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
1288 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
1289 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
1290 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
1291 identify a connection.
1292 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
1293 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
1294 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
1296 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
1297 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
1298 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
1299 pointed out by rovv.
1302 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
1303 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1304 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
1305 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
1306 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
1307 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1308 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
1309 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1310 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
1311 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
1312 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
1313 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
1314 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
1315 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
1316 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1319 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
1320 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
1321 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
1322 answer sections match.
1323 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
1324 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
1327 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
1328 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1331 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
1332 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
1333 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
1335 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
1336 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
1337 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1340 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
1341 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
1342 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
1343 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
1347 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
1348 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
1351 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
1352 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
1353 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
1354 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
1355 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
1356 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
1358 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
1359 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
1360 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
1363 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
1364 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
1365 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
1366 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
1367 be sent using an "early" cell.
1370 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
1371 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
1372 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
1373 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
1374 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
1375 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
1376 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
1379 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
1380 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
1381 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
1382 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
1383 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
1384 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
1385 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
1386 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
1387 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
1388 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
1389 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
1390 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
1391 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
1392 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
1393 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
1394 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
1397 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
1398 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
1399 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
1400 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
1401 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
1402 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
1403 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
1404 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
1405 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
1407 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
1408 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
1409 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
1410 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
1411 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
1414 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1415 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
1416 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
1417 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
1420 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
1421 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
1425 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
1427 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
1428 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
1429 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
1432 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
1433 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
1434 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
1437 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
1438 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
1439 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
1440 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
1441 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1442 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
1443 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
1444 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
1445 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1446 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
1447 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
1448 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
1449 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
1450 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
1451 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
1452 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
1453 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
1454 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
1455 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
1456 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
1457 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
1458 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
1459 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
1462 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
1463 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
1465 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
1466 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
1467 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
1468 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
1469 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
1470 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
1471 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
1473 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
1474 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
1475 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
1476 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
1477 found by Geoff Goodell.
1480 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
1481 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
1482 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
1483 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
1484 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
1485 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
1488 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
1489 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
1490 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
1493 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
1494 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
1495 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
1496 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
1497 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1498 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
1499 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
1500 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
1501 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1502 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
1503 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
1504 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
1505 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
1506 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
1509 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
1510 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
1511 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
1513 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
1514 fingerprints with or without space.
1515 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
1516 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
1517 partway through and wants to catch up.
1518 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
1519 state to start out in.
1522 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
1523 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
1524 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1525 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
1526 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
1529 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
1530 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
1531 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
1532 some of the connection attempts fail.
1533 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
1534 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
1535 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
1536 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
1537 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
1538 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
1540 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
1541 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
1542 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
1545 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
1546 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
1547 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
1548 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
1549 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
1550 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
1551 and adds a variety of smaller features.
1554 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
1555 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
1556 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
1557 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
1559 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
1560 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
1561 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
1562 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
1564 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
1565 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
1566 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
1567 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
1568 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
1569 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
1570 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
1573 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
1574 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
1575 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
1576 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
1577 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
1579 o Memory fixes and improvements:
1580 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
1581 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
1582 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
1583 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
1584 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
1585 on a typical directory cache.
1586 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
1587 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
1588 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
1589 and may reduce fragmentation.
1590 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
1591 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
1592 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
1594 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
1595 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
1596 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
1598 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
1599 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
1603 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
1604 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
1605 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
1606 done that for a long time.
1607 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
1608 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
1609 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
1610 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
1613 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
1614 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
1615 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
1616 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
1617 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
1618 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
1620 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
1621 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
1622 output to messages of warning and error severity.
1623 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
1624 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
1625 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
1626 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
1627 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
1628 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
1629 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
1630 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
1631 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
1632 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
1633 directory requests we should expect to see.
1634 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
1636 - Lots of new unit tests.
1637 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
1638 two parallel lists in lockstep.
1641 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
1642 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
1643 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
1646 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
1647 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
1648 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
1649 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
1650 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
1651 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
1652 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
1655 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
1656 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
1657 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
1661 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
1662 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
1663 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
1666 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
1667 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
1668 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
1670 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
1671 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
1673 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
1674 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
1675 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
1676 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
1677 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1678 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
1679 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
1681 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
1682 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
1683 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
1684 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
1685 - Fix compile on Windows.
1688 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
1689 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
1690 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
1691 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
1692 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
1693 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
1694 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
1697 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
1698 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
1701 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
1702 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
1703 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
1704 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
1706 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
1707 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
1708 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
1711 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
1712 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
1713 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
1714 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
1718 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
1719 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
1720 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
1721 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
1723 o Major security fixes:
1724 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
1725 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
1726 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
1727 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
1728 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
1731 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
1732 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1735 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
1736 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
1739 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
1740 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
1743 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
1744 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
1745 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
1748 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
1749 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1752 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
1753 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
1754 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
1755 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
1756 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
1758 o New directory authorities:
1759 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
1760 it has been down for months.
1761 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
1765 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
1766 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
1768 o Minor features (security):
1769 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
1770 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
1771 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
1774 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
1775 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
1776 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
1777 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
1778 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
1779 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
1780 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
1781 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
1782 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1784 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
1785 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
1786 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1787 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
1788 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
1789 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
1790 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1791 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
1792 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
1794 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1795 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
1796 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
1797 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
1798 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
1799 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
1800 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
1801 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
1802 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
1803 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
1804 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1805 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
1806 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
1807 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
1808 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
1809 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
1810 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
1811 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
1812 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
1815 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
1816 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1817 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
1818 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
1821 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
1822 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
1823 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
1824 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
1827 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
1828 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1829 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
1830 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
1831 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
1834 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
1835 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
1836 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
1837 certain censored countries by default again.
1840 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
1841 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1842 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
1843 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
1844 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1845 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
1846 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
1847 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
1849 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1850 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
1851 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
1852 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
1853 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
1854 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
1855 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
1856 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
1857 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
1858 a directory. Fix from lodger.
1860 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1861 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
1862 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
1863 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
1864 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
1865 RelayBandwidth* values.
1866 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
1867 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
1868 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
1869 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
1870 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
1871 get_interface_address6().
1872 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
1873 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
1874 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
1876 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1877 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
1878 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
1879 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1880 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
1881 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
1882 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1883 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
1884 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
1885 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1888 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
1889 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
1890 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
1893 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
1894 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1895 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
1896 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
1897 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
1900 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
1901 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
1902 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
1903 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
1904 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
1905 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
1906 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
1907 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
1908 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
1911 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
1912 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
1913 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
1914 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1917 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
1918 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
1919 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
1920 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
1921 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
1922 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
1923 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
1926 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
1927 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
1928 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
1929 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
1930 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
1931 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
1932 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
1934 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
1935 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
1936 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
1937 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
1938 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
1941 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
1942 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
1944 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
1945 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
1946 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
1947 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1948 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
1949 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
1950 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
1951 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
1952 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
1953 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
1954 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
1955 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
1956 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1957 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
1958 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1959 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1960 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
1961 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
1962 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
1963 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
1964 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
1965 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
1966 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
1968 o Minor features (performance):
1969 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
1971 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
1972 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
1973 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
1974 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
1975 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
1976 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
1977 non-system include paths.
1978 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
1979 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
1982 o Minor features (other):
1983 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
1985 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
1986 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
1987 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
1990 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
1991 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
1992 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
1993 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
1995 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
1996 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
1997 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
1998 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
2000 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
2001 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
2002 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2003 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
2004 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2006 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2007 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
2008 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
2009 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
2010 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
2011 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
2012 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
2013 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
2014 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
2015 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
2016 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
2017 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
2018 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
2019 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
2020 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
2021 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2022 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
2023 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
2024 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
2025 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
2026 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
2027 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
2028 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
2029 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
2030 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
2033 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2034 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
2035 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
2039 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
2040 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
2041 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
2042 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
2043 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
2046 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
2047 Tor's x509 certificates.
2050 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
2051 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
2052 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2053 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
2054 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
2055 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2057 o Minor features (security):
2058 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
2059 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
2061 o Minor features (directory authority):
2062 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
2063 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
2064 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
2065 bandwidthburst values.
2067 o Minor features (controller):
2068 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
2069 processes from running us out of memory.
2071 o Minor features (misc):
2072 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
2073 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
2074 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
2075 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
2077 o Deprecated features (controller):
2078 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
2079 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
2080 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
2083 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
2084 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
2086 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
2087 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
2088 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2089 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
2090 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
2091 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2092 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
2093 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
2095 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
2096 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2097 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
2098 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2099 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
2100 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
2101 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
2102 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
2104 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
2105 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
2106 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
2107 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
2108 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2109 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
2110 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2111 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
2112 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2113 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
2114 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
2115 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2117 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2118 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
2120 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
2121 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
2122 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
2123 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
2124 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
2125 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
2128 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
2129 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
2130 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
2131 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
2132 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
2134 o New directory authorities:
2135 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
2139 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
2140 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
2141 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
2142 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
2143 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
2144 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
2145 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
2146 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
2150 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
2151 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
2152 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
2153 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
2154 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
2155 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
2156 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
2157 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
2158 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
2159 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
2162 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
2163 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
2164 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
2165 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
2169 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
2170 the request isn't encrypted.
2171 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
2172 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
2173 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
2174 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
2175 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
2178 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
2179 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
2182 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
2185 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
2186 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
2187 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
2189 o New directory authorities:
2190 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
2193 o Major performance improvements:
2194 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
2195 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
2196 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
2197 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
2198 memory fragmentation.
2201 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
2202 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
2203 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
2204 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
2205 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
2206 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
2207 bodies when they receive them.
2208 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
2209 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
2210 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
2212 o Minor performance improvements:
2213 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
2214 of them were actually distinct.
2215 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
2216 interested in a given message.
2219 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
2220 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
2221 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
2222 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
2223 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
2224 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
2225 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
2226 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
2227 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
2228 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
2229 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
2231 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
2232 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
2233 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
2234 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
2235 this country" and "1 person from this country".
2236 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
2237 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
2238 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
2239 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
2240 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
2242 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
2243 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
2244 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
2246 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
2247 but client versions are not.
2248 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
2249 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
2251 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
2252 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
2253 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
2254 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
2255 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
2257 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
2258 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
2259 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
2262 o Minor features (controller):
2263 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
2264 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
2265 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
2266 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
2268 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2269 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
2270 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
2271 running a test network on a single host.
2272 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
2273 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
2275 o Minor features (bridges):
2276 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
2277 unencrypted connections.
2279 o Minor features (other):
2280 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
2281 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
2282 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
2283 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
2286 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
2287 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
2288 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
2289 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
2292 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
2293 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
2294 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
2295 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
2299 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
2300 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
2301 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
2302 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
2303 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
2304 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
2305 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
2306 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
2307 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
2308 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
2309 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
2310 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
2313 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
2314 rebuild our server descriptor.
2315 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
2316 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
2317 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
2318 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
2319 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
2320 nonstandard integer types.
2321 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
2322 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
2323 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
2324 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
2325 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
2327 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
2328 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
2329 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
2330 when they receive them.
2331 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
2332 This includes some 64-bit systems.
2333 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
2334 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
2335 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
2336 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
2337 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
2338 router_get_by_hexdigest().
2339 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
2340 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
2344 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
2345 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
2346 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2349 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
2350 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
2351 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
2352 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
2353 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
2354 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
2355 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
2356 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2359 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
2360 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
2361 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
2362 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
2364 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
2365 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
2368 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
2369 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
2372 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
2374 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
2375 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
2377 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
2378 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
2379 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
2380 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2381 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
2382 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
2383 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
2384 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2385 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
2386 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
2390 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
2391 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
2392 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
2395 - Make the unit tests build again.
2396 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
2397 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
2398 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
2399 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
2400 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
2401 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2402 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
2403 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
2404 the next one as a duplicate.
2407 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
2408 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
2409 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
2410 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
2413 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
2414 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
2415 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
2418 o New directory authorities:
2419 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
2423 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
2424 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
2425 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
2426 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
2427 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
2428 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
2429 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
2431 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
2432 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
2434 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
2435 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
2436 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
2437 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
2438 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
2439 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
2441 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
2442 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
2443 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2444 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
2445 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
2446 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2449 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
2450 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
2451 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
2452 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
2453 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
2454 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
2455 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
2456 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
2457 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
2458 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
2459 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
2460 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
2461 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
2462 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
2463 where Tor is blocked.
2464 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
2465 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
2466 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
2467 to a file periodically.
2468 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
2469 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
2470 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
2474 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
2475 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
2476 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
2477 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
2478 in the relevant networkstatus document.
2479 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
2480 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
2481 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2482 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
2483 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
2484 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
2485 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
2487 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
2488 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
2489 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
2490 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
2491 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
2492 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2493 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
2494 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
2495 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
2496 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2497 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
2498 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
2499 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
2500 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2501 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
2502 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
2503 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
2504 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
2505 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
2506 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2507 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2508 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
2509 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2510 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
2511 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
2512 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2513 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
2514 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2517 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
2518 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
2519 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
2520 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
2521 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
2522 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
2523 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
2524 even if your DirPort isn't on.
2525 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
2526 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
2527 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
2529 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
2530 multiple controller passwords.
2531 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
2532 router based on the router's purpose.
2533 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
2534 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
2535 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
2536 the approved-routers file.
2539 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
2540 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
2541 well as a few minor bugs.
2544 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
2545 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
2546 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
2548 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2549 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
2550 rebuild our server descriptor.
2552 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2553 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
2554 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
2555 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
2556 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
2557 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
2558 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
2559 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
2560 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
2561 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
2563 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
2564 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
2565 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
2566 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
2567 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
2568 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
2569 then be flexible about families.
2572 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
2573 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
2574 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
2578 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
2579 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
2580 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
2581 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
2582 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
2585 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
2586 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
2587 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
2588 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
2589 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2592 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
2593 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
2595 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
2596 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
2597 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
2598 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
2599 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
2600 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
2601 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
2603 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
2604 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
2605 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
2606 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
2609 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
2610 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
2613 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
2614 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
2615 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2618 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
2619 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
2620 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
2621 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
2622 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
2623 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
2624 addresses many more minor issues.
2626 o New directory authorities:
2627 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
2630 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
2631 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
2632 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
2633 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
2635 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
2636 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
2637 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
2638 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
2639 and are reaching it.
2640 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
2641 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
2642 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
2643 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
2644 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
2645 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
2648 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
2649 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
2651 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
2652 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
2653 no longer work for clients.
2654 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
2655 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
2657 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
2658 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
2659 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
2660 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
2661 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
2662 enough directory information to build a circuit.
2663 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
2664 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
2665 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
2666 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
2667 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
2668 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
2670 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
2671 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
2672 requests for all of them.
2673 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
2675 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
2676 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
2677 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
2680 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
2681 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
2685 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
2686 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
2687 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
2688 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
2689 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
2690 networkstatuses that we already have.
2691 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
2692 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
2693 we start knowing some directory caches.
2694 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
2695 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
2696 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
2697 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
2698 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
2699 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
2700 Good in combination with --hash-password.
2701 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
2702 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
2704 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
2705 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
2706 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
2708 o Minor features (bridges):
2709 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
2710 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
2711 back to trying the bridge directly.
2712 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
2713 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
2715 o Minor features (controller):
2716 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
2717 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
2718 report the value as a "minimum skew."
2721 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
2722 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
2726 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
2727 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
2728 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
2729 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
2730 reported by tup and ioerror.
2731 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
2732 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
2734 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2735 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
2737 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
2738 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
2739 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
2741 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
2742 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2743 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
2744 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2745 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
2746 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2747 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
2749 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
2750 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
2751 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2753 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
2754 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
2755 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
2756 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
2757 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
2760 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
2761 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
2762 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
2763 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
2764 lists for a few hours each day.
2766 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2767 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
2768 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
2769 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
2770 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
2771 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2772 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
2773 rend_process_relay_cell().
2775 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2776 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
2777 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
2778 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
2779 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
2780 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
2781 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
2782 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
2784 o Major bugfixes (other):
2785 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
2786 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
2787 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
2788 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
2789 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
2790 circuit cannibalization).
2791 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2792 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2793 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2794 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2795 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2796 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
2799 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
2800 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
2802 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
2803 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
2804 absent. Resolves bug 467.
2805 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
2806 a way to trigger this remotely.)
2807 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
2808 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
2809 were reporting the dir port.)
2810 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
2811 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
2812 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2813 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2814 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2816 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2817 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2818 the onion key from getting rotated.
2819 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
2820 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
2821 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
2822 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
2823 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
2824 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2825 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
2826 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
2827 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
2830 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
2831 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
2832 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
2833 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
2834 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
2835 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
2837 o Major features (directory system):
2838 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
2839 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
2840 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
2841 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
2842 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
2843 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
2844 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
2845 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
2846 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
2847 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
2848 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
2849 Partially implements proposal 122.
2850 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
2851 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
2854 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
2855 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
2856 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
2857 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
2859 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
2860 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
2861 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
2862 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
2863 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
2864 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2865 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
2866 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
2867 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2869 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
2870 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
2872 - Allow certificates to include an address.
2873 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
2874 and download operations.
2875 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
2876 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
2877 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
2878 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
2879 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
2880 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
2882 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
2883 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
2886 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
2887 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
2888 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
2889 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
2891 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
2892 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
2893 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
2895 o Minor features (performance):
2896 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
2897 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
2898 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
2899 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
2900 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
2901 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
2902 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
2905 o Minor features (compilation):
2906 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
2907 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
2909 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2910 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
2911 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
2912 stick around indefinitely.
2913 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
2915 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
2916 v3 directory authority.
2917 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
2918 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
2920 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
2921 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
2922 "moria on moria:9031."
2923 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
2924 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
2925 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
2926 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
2927 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
2928 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
2929 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
2930 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
2932 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
2933 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
2934 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
2935 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
2936 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
2937 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
2938 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
2939 downloads than for other types.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
2942 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
2944 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
2945 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
2946 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2948 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2949 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
2950 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2951 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
2952 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
2953 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
2954 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
2955 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
2957 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2958 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
2959 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
2960 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
2961 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2962 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
2963 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
2964 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2965 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
2966 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
2967 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
2969 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
2970 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
2973 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2974 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
2975 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
2976 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
2977 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
2978 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
2979 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
2980 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
2981 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
2982 so that they all take the same named flags.
2985 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
2986 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
2987 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
2990 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
2991 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
2992 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
2993 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
2994 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
2995 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
2997 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
2998 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
2999 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
3000 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
3001 annotations along with descriptors.
3002 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
3003 source, and its purpose.
3004 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
3006 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
3007 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
3008 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
3009 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
3012 o Major features (directory authorities):
3013 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
3015 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
3016 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
3017 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
3018 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
3019 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
3020 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
3022 o Major features (v3 directory system):
3023 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
3024 and download the descriptors listed in them.
3025 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
3026 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
3027 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
3029 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3030 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
3031 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
3032 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
3035 o Major bugfixes (performance):
3036 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
3037 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
3038 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
3039 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
3041 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
3042 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
3043 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
3044 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
3045 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
3046 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
3048 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
3049 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
3051 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
3052 certificate is requested.
3053 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
3054 certificate requests.
3056 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
3057 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
3058 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
3059 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
3062 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3063 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
3064 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
3065 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3067 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
3068 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
3070 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
3071 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
3072 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3073 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
3074 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
3075 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
3076 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
3077 downloads more sensible.
3078 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
3079 another when serving certificates.
3081 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3082 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
3083 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
3084 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
3086 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
3087 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3088 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
3090 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
3091 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3093 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3094 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
3095 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
3096 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
3097 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3099 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
3100 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
3101 WARN-severity events.
3102 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
3103 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
3104 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
3106 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
3107 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
3108 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
3110 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
3111 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
3112 circuit cannibalization).
3114 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3115 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
3116 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
3117 new module, networkstatus.c.
3118 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
3119 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
3120 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
3121 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
3122 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
3123 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
3124 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
3125 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
3126 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
3128 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
3130 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
3131 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3134 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
3135 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
3136 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
3137 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
3139 o New directory authorities:
3140 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
3141 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
3143 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3144 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
3145 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3147 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3148 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
3149 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
3150 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
3151 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3152 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
3153 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
3154 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
3155 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
3156 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
3157 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3159 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3160 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
3161 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
3162 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
3163 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
3164 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
3165 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
3166 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
3167 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
3169 o Minor features (security):
3170 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
3171 address maps to an internal address space.
3172 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
3173 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
3175 o Minor features (guard nodes):
3176 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
3177 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
3178 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
3179 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
3181 o Minor features (speed):
3182 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
3183 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
3184 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
3185 on big-endian hosts.)
3187 o Minor features (controller):
3188 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
3189 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
3190 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
3191 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
3195 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
3196 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
3197 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
3198 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
3199 implementation of proposal 104.
3200 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
3201 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
3202 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
3203 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
3204 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
3205 patch from Karsten Loesing.
3206 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
3207 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
3210 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
3211 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
3212 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3213 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
3214 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3215 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
3216 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3217 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
3218 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
3219 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3220 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
3221 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
3222 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
3223 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3224 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
3225 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
3226 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
3227 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3228 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
3229 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
3231 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3232 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
3233 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
3235 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
3236 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
3237 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
3238 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
3241 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
3242 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
3243 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
3244 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
3245 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
3248 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
3249 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
3252 o Major bugfixes (security):
3253 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
3254 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
3255 become more of a headache than it's worth.
3257 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
3258 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
3259 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
3261 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
3262 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
3263 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
3264 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
3265 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
3266 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
3268 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
3269 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
3270 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
3271 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
3272 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
3274 o Minor features (controller):
3275 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
3276 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
3277 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
3278 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3281 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
3282 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
3283 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
3284 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
3285 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
3286 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
3287 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
3289 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3290 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
3291 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
3292 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
3293 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
3294 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
3295 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
3296 if we ran off the end of the list.
3297 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
3298 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
3299 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
3300 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
3301 every time we change any piece of our config.
3302 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
3303 encourage people using them to stop.
3304 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
3306 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
3307 servers to choose a circuit.
3308 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
3309 unparseable piece of it.
3312 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
3313 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
3314 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
3315 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
3318 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
3319 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
3320 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
3321 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
3322 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
3324 o New directory authorities:
3325 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
3328 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
3329 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
3330 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
3331 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
3333 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
3334 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
3335 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
3337 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
3338 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
3339 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
3340 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
3341 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
3342 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
3344 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
3345 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
3346 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
3349 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
3350 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
3351 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
3352 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
3356 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
3357 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
3358 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
3359 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
3361 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
3362 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
3364 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
3365 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
3366 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
3367 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
3368 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
3369 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
3370 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3371 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
3372 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
3373 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
3376 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
3377 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
3378 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
3379 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
3380 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
3381 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
3384 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
3385 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
3386 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
3387 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
3390 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
3391 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
3392 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
3393 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
3394 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
3397 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
3398 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
3399 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
3400 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
3401 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
3404 o Minor features (directory servers):
3405 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
3406 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
3408 o Minor features (directory voting):
3409 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
3412 o Minor features (security):
3413 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
3414 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
3415 encourage people using them to stop.
3417 o Minor features (controller):
3418 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
3419 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
3420 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
3421 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
3422 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
3423 cookie authentication file, and config option
3424 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
3426 o Minor features (unit testing):
3427 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
3428 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
3429 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
3430 logging for the unit tests.
3432 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
3433 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
3434 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
3435 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
3436 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
3437 every time we change any piece of our config.
3438 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
3439 the future. Fixes bug 434.
3440 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
3442 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
3443 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
3444 the onion key from getting rotated.
3445 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
3446 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
3447 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
3450 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
3451 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
3452 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
3454 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
3455 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
3456 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
3457 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
3460 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
3461 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
3462 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
3463 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
3464 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
3465 TorK, etc. Or worse.
3467 o Major security fixes:
3468 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
3469 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
3472 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
3473 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
3474 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
3475 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
3477 o Major security fixes:
3478 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
3479 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
3481 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
3482 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
3485 o Minor features (performance):
3486 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
3487 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
3488 performance-intensive.
3489 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
3490 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
3491 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
3492 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
3493 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
3494 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
3498 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
3499 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
3500 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
3501 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
3505 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
3506 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
3507 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
3508 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
3509 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
3511 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
3512 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
3513 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
3514 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
3516 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
3517 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
3518 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
3519 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
3520 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
3522 o Major features (experimental):
3523 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
3524 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
3525 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
3526 handling before it's ready for use.
3529 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
3530 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
3531 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
3532 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3533 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
3534 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
3536 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
3537 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
3538 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
3539 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
3540 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
3542 o Major bugfixes (directory):
3543 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
3544 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3546 o Minor features (controller):
3547 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
3548 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3549 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
3551 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
3553 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
3554 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
3556 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
3557 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
3558 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
3559 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
3560 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
3561 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
3562 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
3565 o Minor features (misc):
3566 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
3568 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
3569 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
3570 the authority identity key.
3571 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
3573 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
3574 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
3575 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
3578 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
3579 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
3580 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
3581 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
3582 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
3583 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
3584 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
3585 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
3587 o Performance improvements:
3588 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
3590 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
3591 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
3594 o Deprecated and removed features:
3595 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
3596 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
3597 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
3598 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
3600 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3601 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
3602 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3603 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
3604 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
3605 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3606 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
3607 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
3608 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
3611 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
3612 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
3613 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
3614 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
3615 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
3617 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
3618 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
3621 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3622 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
3623 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
3624 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
3625 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
3626 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
3627 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
3628 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
3629 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
3632 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
3633 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
3634 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
3635 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
3637 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
3638 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
3640 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3641 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
3642 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
3643 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
3644 routerlist while inserting a new router.
3645 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
3646 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
3648 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
3649 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
3650 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
3652 o Major bugfixes (security):
3653 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
3655 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
3656 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
3657 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
3658 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
3659 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
3660 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
3661 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
3662 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
3663 guard list unless we need to.
3665 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
3666 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
3667 don't get overused as guards.
3669 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3670 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
3671 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
3672 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
3673 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3676 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
3677 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
3680 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3681 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
3682 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
3683 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
3684 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
3685 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
3686 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
3687 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
3690 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
3691 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
3692 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
3693 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
3695 o Minor features (directory):
3696 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
3697 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
3698 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
3699 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
3701 o Minor build issues:
3702 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
3703 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
3704 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
3705 in the tarball, not as "x".
3708 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
3709 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
3710 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
3711 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
3712 forward on a lot of fronts.
3714 o Major features, server usability:
3715 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
3716 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
3717 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
3718 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
3720 o Major features, client usability:
3721 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
3722 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
3723 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
3724 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
3725 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
3726 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
3727 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
3728 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
3730 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
3731 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
3732 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
3733 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
3734 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
3735 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
3737 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
3738 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
3739 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
3741 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
3742 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
3743 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
3744 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
3745 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
3747 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
3748 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
3749 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
3750 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
3752 o Major features, other:
3753 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
3754 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
3755 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
3756 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
3757 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
3760 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
3761 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
3762 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
3765 o Minor fixes (resource management):
3766 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
3767 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
3768 our allocated connection limit.
3769 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
3770 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
3771 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
3772 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
3773 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
3775 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
3776 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
3777 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
3779 o Minor features (build):
3780 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
3781 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
3782 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
3783 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
3785 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
3786 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
3787 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
3788 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
3789 Use this version consistently in log messages.
3791 o Minor features (logging):
3792 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
3793 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
3794 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
3795 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
3796 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
3799 o Minor features (directory system):
3800 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
3801 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
3802 not to serve V2 directory information.
3803 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
3804 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
3805 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
3807 o Minor features (controller):
3808 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
3809 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
3811 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
3812 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
3813 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
3814 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
3815 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
3816 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
3818 o Minor features (hidden services):
3819 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
3820 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
3821 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
3822 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
3824 o Minor features (other):
3826 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
3827 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
3828 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
3829 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
3830 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
3831 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
3832 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
3833 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
3834 longer a completely silly thing to do.
3835 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
3836 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
3837 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
3838 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
3841 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
3842 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
3843 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
3844 back an error and close the connection.
3845 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
3846 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
3849 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3850 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
3851 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
3852 makes the log messages nicer.
3853 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
3854 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3855 partial results on small file reads.
3857 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
3858 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
3859 more often than they are allowed to appear.
3860 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
3861 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
3863 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3864 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
3865 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
3866 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
3868 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3869 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
3870 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
3871 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
3872 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
3873 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
3874 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
3875 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
3876 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
3877 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
3878 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
3880 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
3881 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
3882 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
3884 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3885 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
3886 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
3887 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
3889 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3890 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
3891 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
3893 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
3894 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
3897 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3898 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
3899 implicit in other procedure arguments.
3900 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
3901 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
3902 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
3903 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
3904 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
3905 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
3906 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
3907 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
3908 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
3911 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
3912 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
3913 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
3914 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
3916 o Directory authority changes:
3917 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
3918 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
3919 or use hidden services.
3921 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3922 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
3923 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
3924 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
3925 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
3926 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
3927 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
3928 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
3929 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
3932 o Major bugfixes (security):
3933 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
3934 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
3935 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
3937 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
3938 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
3939 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
3940 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
3941 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
3942 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
3943 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
3944 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
3945 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
3946 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
3949 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
3951 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
3952 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
3954 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
3955 having a hard time downloading.
3956 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
3957 partial results on small file reads.
3958 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
3959 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
3960 the gaps in the store get very large.
3963 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
3964 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
3966 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
3967 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
3970 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
3971 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
3972 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
3973 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
3974 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
3975 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
3977 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
3978 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
3979 free speech on the Internet.
3982 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
3983 get one we don't recognize.
3984 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
3985 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
3988 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
3990 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
3991 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
3992 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
3993 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
3996 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
3997 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
4000 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
4001 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
4002 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
4003 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
4004 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
4005 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
4009 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
4010 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
4011 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
4012 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
4013 on Win98 and friends again.
4015 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4016 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
4017 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
4020 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
4021 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
4022 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
4023 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
4024 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
4025 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
4026 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
4027 and maybe also bug 397.)
4029 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4030 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
4031 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
4033 o Minor bugfixes (server):
4034 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
4037 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4038 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
4039 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
4040 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
4041 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
4043 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4044 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
4045 load on authorities.
4047 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4048 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
4049 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
4050 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
4052 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
4054 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
4055 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
4056 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
4057 the last of bug 326.)
4058 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
4059 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
4063 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
4064 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4065 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
4066 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
4067 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
4068 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
4069 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
4071 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
4072 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
4074 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4075 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
4076 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
4078 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
4079 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
4080 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
4082 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4083 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
4084 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
4085 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
4087 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
4088 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
4090 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
4091 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
4092 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
4095 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4096 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
4097 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
4098 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
4099 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
4100 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
4101 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
4102 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
4103 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
4104 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
4105 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
4106 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
4107 other than file-not-found.
4108 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
4109 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
4110 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
4111 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
4112 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
4113 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
4114 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
4115 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
4116 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
4117 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
4118 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
4119 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
4120 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
4121 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
4122 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
4124 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
4126 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
4127 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
4129 o Minor features (controller):
4130 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
4131 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
4132 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
4134 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
4135 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
4136 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
4137 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
4138 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
4139 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
4140 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
4141 connected or resolved cell.
4143 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4144 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
4145 some profiles, but not others.)
4146 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
4147 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
4148 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
4151 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
4153 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
4154 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
4155 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
4156 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
4157 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
4158 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
4159 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
4160 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
4161 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
4162 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
4163 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
4164 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
4165 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
4166 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
4167 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
4169 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
4172 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
4173 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
4174 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
4175 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
4176 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
4177 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
4178 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
4180 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
4181 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
4182 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
4183 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
4184 buckets go absurdly negative.
4185 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
4186 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
4189 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
4190 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
4191 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
4192 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
4193 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
4194 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
4195 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
4196 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
4199 o Major bugfixes (other):
4200 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
4201 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
4202 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
4203 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
4205 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
4207 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
4208 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
4210 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
4211 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
4212 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
4213 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
4214 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
4217 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
4218 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
4219 possible memory-stomping bugs.
4220 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
4221 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
4223 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
4224 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
4225 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
4226 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
4227 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
4228 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
4230 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4231 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
4232 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
4233 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
4235 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
4236 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
4237 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
4238 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
4239 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
4240 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
4241 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
4242 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
4243 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
4244 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
4245 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
4246 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
4247 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
4249 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
4250 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
4251 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
4252 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
4253 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
4254 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
4255 to the resulting address.
4258 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
4259 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
4260 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
4261 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
4264 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
4265 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
4267 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
4268 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
4269 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
4270 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
4271 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
4272 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
4273 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
4274 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
4275 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
4276 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
4277 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
4278 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
4279 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
4280 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
4281 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
4282 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
4283 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
4286 o Minor features (controller):
4287 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
4288 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
4289 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
4290 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
4291 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
4292 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
4293 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
4297 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
4299 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
4300 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
4301 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
4302 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
4303 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
4304 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
4307 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
4308 weren't planning to resolve.
4309 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
4310 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
4311 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
4312 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
4313 the controller from learning about current events.
4315 o Minor features (more controller status events):
4316 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
4317 learn when our address changes.
4318 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
4319 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
4320 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
4321 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
4323 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
4324 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
4325 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
4326 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
4327 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
4328 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
4329 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
4330 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
4331 are accepted by a directory.
4332 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
4333 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
4334 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
4335 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
4336 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
4338 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
4339 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
4340 about changes to DNS server status.
4342 o Minor features (directory):
4343 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
4344 too much load to the exit nodes.
4347 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
4349 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
4350 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
4351 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
4352 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
4353 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
4355 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
4356 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
4357 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
4359 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
4360 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
4361 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
4362 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
4363 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
4364 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
4365 config options if you like.
4367 o Minor features (config and docs):
4368 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
4369 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
4370 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
4371 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
4372 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
4374 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
4375 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
4376 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
4377 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
4378 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
4380 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
4381 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
4382 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
4383 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
4384 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
4385 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
4386 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
4387 documentation: "make check-docs".
4388 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
4389 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
4391 o Minor features (DNS):
4392 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
4393 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
4394 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
4395 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
4396 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
4397 our tests for DNS hijacking.
4399 o Minor features (directory):
4400 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
4401 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
4402 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
4403 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
4404 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
4405 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
4406 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
4407 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
4408 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
4409 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
4410 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
4411 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
4412 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
4413 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
4414 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
4415 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
4416 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
4417 for the thing we're trying to download.
4418 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
4419 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
4420 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
4422 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
4423 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
4424 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
4427 o Minor features (controller):
4428 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
4429 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
4431 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
4432 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
4433 entry guard status as it changes.
4435 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
4436 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
4437 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
4438 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
4440 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
4441 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
4442 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
4443 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
4446 o Major bugfixes (security):
4447 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
4448 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
4449 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
4450 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
4452 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
4453 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
4454 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
4455 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
4456 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
4458 o Major bugfixes (other):
4459 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
4460 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
4461 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
4462 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
4464 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
4465 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
4466 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
4467 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
4468 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
4469 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
4473 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
4474 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
4475 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
4476 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
4477 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
4479 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
4480 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
4482 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
4483 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
4484 family lists conveniently.
4485 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
4486 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
4487 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
4489 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
4490 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
4492 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
4493 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
4494 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
4495 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
4496 if their identity keys are as expected.
4497 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
4498 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
4499 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
4501 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4502 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
4503 reported by Mike Perry.
4504 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
4505 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
4506 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
4507 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
4510 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
4511 o Security bugfixes:
4512 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
4513 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
4514 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
4515 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
4519 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
4520 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
4521 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
4524 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
4526 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
4527 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
4528 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
4531 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
4532 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
4533 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
4534 watching for STREAM events.
4535 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
4536 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
4537 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
4538 operations, for profiling.
4541 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
4542 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
4543 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
4544 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
4545 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
4546 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
4548 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
4552 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
4553 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
4554 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
4555 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
4556 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
4558 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
4559 correctly in the Windows installer.
4560 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
4561 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
4562 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
4564 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
4565 when we're running as a client.
4568 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
4570 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
4571 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
4572 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
4573 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
4574 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
4575 its circuits on demand.
4576 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
4577 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
4578 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
4579 connections more stable on average.
4580 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
4581 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
4582 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
4584 o Security bugfixes:
4585 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
4586 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
4589 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
4591 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
4592 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
4593 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
4594 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
4595 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
4596 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
4597 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
4598 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
4601 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
4603 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
4604 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
4605 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
4606 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
4607 routers for even longer.
4608 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
4609 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
4610 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
4611 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
4612 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
4613 caching HTTP proxies.
4614 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
4617 o Minor features, controller:
4618 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
4619 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
4620 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
4621 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
4623 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
4624 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
4625 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
4626 working much like those for circuit events.
4627 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
4628 about the current status of a router.
4629 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
4630 a router's status has changed.
4631 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
4632 can tell which events and features are supported.
4633 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
4634 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
4636 o Security bugfixes:
4637 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
4638 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
4641 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
4642 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
4643 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
4644 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
4645 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
4646 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
4647 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
4648 long nicknames where appropriate.
4649 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
4650 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
4651 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
4652 chews through many circuits before giving up.
4653 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
4654 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
4655 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
4656 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
4657 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
4658 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
4660 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
4661 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
4662 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
4664 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
4665 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
4666 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
4667 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
4668 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
4669 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
4670 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
4671 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
4672 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
4673 (reported by fookoowa).
4674 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
4675 and reported by some Centos users.
4676 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
4677 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
4678 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
4679 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
4680 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
4681 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
4682 before we check for libevent.
4685 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
4687 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
4688 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
4689 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
4690 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
4691 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
4692 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
4693 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
4694 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
4695 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
4696 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
4697 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
4698 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
4699 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
4700 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
4701 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
4702 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
4703 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
4704 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
4705 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
4706 lets you turn it off.
4707 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
4708 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
4709 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
4710 us into the directory more quickly.
4712 o New/improved config options:
4713 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
4714 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
4715 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
4716 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
4717 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
4718 all the machines on the same subnet.
4719 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
4720 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
4721 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
4722 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
4723 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
4724 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
4725 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
4726 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
4727 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
4728 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
4730 o Minor features, controller:
4731 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
4732 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
4733 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
4734 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
4735 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
4736 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
4737 for more information.
4738 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
4739 best guess to the user.
4740 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
4741 descriptor has changed.
4742 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
4744 o Minor features, other:
4745 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
4746 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
4747 useful to the network.
4748 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
4749 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
4750 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
4751 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
4752 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
4753 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
4754 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
4755 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
4756 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
4757 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
4758 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
4759 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
4760 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
4761 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
4762 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
4764 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
4765 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
4766 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
4767 could return an unnamed server instead.
4768 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
4769 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
4770 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
4771 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
4772 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
4773 a more attractive target for compromise.)
4774 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
4775 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
4776 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
4778 o Major bugfixes, other:
4779 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
4780 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
4781 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
4782 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
4783 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
4784 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
4785 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
4786 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
4787 its circuits on demand.
4788 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
4789 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
4790 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
4791 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
4793 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
4794 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4795 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4797 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
4799 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
4800 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
4801 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
4802 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
4803 "extendcircuit" request.
4804 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4805 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4806 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
4808 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
4809 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
4810 instead of "X resolved to X".
4811 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
4812 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
4813 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
4814 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
4815 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
4816 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
4817 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
4818 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
4819 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
4821 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
4822 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
4823 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
4824 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
4825 result more than once.
4826 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
4827 non-versioning dirservers.
4828 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
4829 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
4831 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
4832 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
4833 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
4834 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
4835 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
4836 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
4837 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
4838 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
4839 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
4841 o Packaging, features:
4842 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
4843 now universal binaries.
4844 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
4845 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
4846 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
4848 o Packaging, bugfixes:
4849 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
4850 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
4851 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
4852 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
4854 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
4855 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
4856 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
4859 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
4860 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
4861 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
4865 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
4867 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
4868 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
4869 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
4870 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
4871 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
4872 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
4873 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
4874 it can't resolve its hostname.
4877 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4878 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
4879 "extendcircuit" request.
4880 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
4881 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
4882 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4883 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4885 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
4886 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
4887 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
4889 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
4890 methods: these are known to be buggy.
4891 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
4892 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
4896 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
4898 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
4899 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
4900 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
4901 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
4902 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
4903 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
4904 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
4905 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
4906 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
4907 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
4908 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
4909 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
4910 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
4911 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
4912 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
4913 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
4914 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
4915 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
4916 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
4917 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
4918 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
4919 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
4920 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
4921 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
4924 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
4925 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
4926 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
4927 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
4928 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
4929 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
4930 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
4931 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
4932 recommendation system saner.)
4933 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
4935 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
4936 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
4937 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
4938 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
4939 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
4940 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
4941 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
4942 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
4943 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
4944 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
4945 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
4946 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
4948 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
4949 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
4950 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
4951 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
4952 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
4953 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
4954 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
4955 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
4956 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
4957 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
4958 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
4959 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
4961 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
4962 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
4963 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
4964 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
4965 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
4966 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
4969 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
4970 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
4971 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
4972 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
4973 our DirPort now, etc.
4974 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
4975 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
4976 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
4977 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
4978 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
4979 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
4980 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
4982 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
4983 whether the config options are bad or good.
4984 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
4985 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
4986 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
4987 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
4988 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
4989 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
4990 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
4991 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
4994 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
4995 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
4996 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
4997 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
4998 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
4999 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
5000 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
5001 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
5002 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
5003 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
5004 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
5005 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
5006 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
5007 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
5008 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
5009 of it), is not therefore "up".
5010 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
5011 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
5012 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
5013 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
5014 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
5015 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
5018 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
5020 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
5021 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
5022 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
5023 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
5024 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
5025 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
5026 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
5027 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
5028 test reachability, so you won't publish.
5031 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
5032 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
5033 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
5034 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
5035 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
5037 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
5038 own server descriptor yet.
5041 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
5043 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
5044 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
5045 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
5046 make sure to test via one of these.
5047 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
5048 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
5049 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
5050 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
5051 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
5053 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
5054 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
5055 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
5058 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
5059 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
5060 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
5061 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
5062 directory authority.
5063 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
5064 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
5065 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
5066 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
5069 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
5070 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
5071 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
5073 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
5074 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
5075 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
5076 current guards when picking a new guard.
5077 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
5078 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
5079 when we had more than one pending.
5080 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
5081 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
5082 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
5083 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
5084 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
5085 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
5086 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
5087 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
5088 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
5089 debug the reachability problems better.
5091 o Log / documentation fixes:
5092 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
5093 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
5094 about protocol violations by others.
5095 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
5096 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
5097 about what happened to our old torrc.
5100 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
5102 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
5104 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
5105 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
5106 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
5107 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
5110 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
5112 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
5113 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
5114 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
5115 old ORPort and receive connections.
5116 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
5118 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
5119 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
5120 and network-statuses.
5121 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
5122 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
5123 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
5124 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
5126 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
5129 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
5130 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
5131 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
5134 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
5136 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
5137 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
5138 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
5139 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
5140 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
5143 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
5144 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
5146 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
5147 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
5148 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
5149 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
5150 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
5151 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
5152 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
5153 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
5154 rather than not sending anything back at all.
5155 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
5156 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
5157 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
5158 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
5159 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
5160 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
5161 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
5162 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
5163 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
5164 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
5165 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
5166 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
5167 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
5168 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
5169 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
5170 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
5171 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
5172 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
5173 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
5174 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
5175 default ulimit -n is 1024.
5178 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
5179 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
5180 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
5181 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
5184 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
5186 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
5187 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
5188 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
5189 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
5190 entry guards running these flawed versions.
5191 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
5192 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
5193 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
5194 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
5195 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
5198 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
5199 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
5201 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
5202 and it is confusing some users.
5203 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
5204 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
5205 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
5206 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
5207 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
5210 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
5212 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
5213 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
5214 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
5215 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
5216 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
5217 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
5218 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
5219 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
5220 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
5221 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
5222 dirport is set for now.
5224 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
5225 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
5226 unattached before we fail it?
5227 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
5228 at least this many seconds ago.
5229 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
5230 at least this many seconds ago.
5233 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
5234 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
5235 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
5236 or resolve-wait stream.
5237 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
5238 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
5239 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
5240 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
5241 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
5242 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
5243 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
5244 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
5246 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
5247 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
5248 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
5249 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
5250 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
5251 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
5252 given as hex digests.
5253 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
5254 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
5255 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
5256 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
5257 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
5258 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
5259 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
5260 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
5263 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5264 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
5265 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
5266 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
5267 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
5268 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
5269 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
5270 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
5271 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
5272 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
5273 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
5276 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
5277 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
5278 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
5279 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
5280 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
5281 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
5282 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
5285 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
5286 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
5287 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
5288 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
5289 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
5290 misreading their logs.
5291 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
5292 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
5293 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
5294 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
5295 valid router descriptors.
5296 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
5297 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
5298 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
5299 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
5300 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
5301 silently resetting it to its default.
5302 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
5304 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
5307 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
5309 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
5310 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
5311 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
5312 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
5313 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
5315 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
5316 because older Tors do not understand it.
5317 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
5321 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
5322 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5323 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
5324 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
5325 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
5326 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
5327 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
5328 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
5329 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
5330 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
5331 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
5333 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
5334 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
5335 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
5336 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
5338 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
5339 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
5342 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
5343 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
5344 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
5345 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
5346 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
5347 without getting overloaded.
5348 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
5350 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
5351 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
5352 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
5353 be forward-compatible.
5354 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
5355 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
5356 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
5357 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
5359 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
5360 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
5361 and OR conns to port 443.
5362 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
5363 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
5365 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
5366 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
5367 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
5368 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
5369 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
5370 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
5371 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
5374 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
5375 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5376 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
5377 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
5379 o Other important bugfixes:
5380 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
5381 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
5382 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
5383 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
5385 o Backported features:
5386 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
5387 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
5388 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
5389 without getting overloaded.
5390 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
5391 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
5392 503's whenever they feel busy.
5393 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
5394 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
5395 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
5396 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
5397 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
5400 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
5401 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
5402 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
5403 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
5404 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
5405 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
5406 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
5407 know if the crashes continue.
5408 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
5409 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
5410 seg faults in at least some cases.)
5411 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
5412 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
5413 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
5416 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
5417 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
5418 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
5419 try to be a bit more fair.
5420 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
5421 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
5422 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
5423 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
5424 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
5425 bug that let it go negative.
5426 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
5427 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
5428 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
5429 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
5430 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
5431 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
5432 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
5433 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
5434 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
5435 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
5436 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
5439 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
5441 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
5442 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
5443 service descriptors.
5446 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
5447 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
5448 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
5449 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
5451 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
5452 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
5453 versions *are* still recommended.
5454 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
5455 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
5456 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
5457 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
5458 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
5459 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
5460 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
5461 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
5463 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
5464 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
5465 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
5466 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
5467 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
5468 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
5469 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
5470 on it. Not used by clients yet.
5471 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
5472 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
5473 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
5474 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
5475 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
5476 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
5477 established a circuit.
5478 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
5479 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
5480 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
5481 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
5484 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
5485 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5486 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
5487 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
5488 quickly enough. Oops.
5489 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
5491 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5492 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
5495 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
5496 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
5497 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
5498 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
5499 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
5500 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
5501 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
5502 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
5503 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
5504 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
5505 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
5506 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
5507 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
5508 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
5509 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
5510 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
5511 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
5514 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
5515 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
5516 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
5517 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
5518 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
5519 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
5520 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
5521 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
5522 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
5523 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
5524 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
5525 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
5526 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
5527 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
5528 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
5529 connections more reliable.
5532 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
5533 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
5534 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
5535 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
5536 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
5537 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
5538 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
5539 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
5540 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
5541 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
5542 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
5543 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
5544 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
5545 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
5549 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
5550 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
5551 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
5552 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
5553 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
5554 need to be uint64_t's.
5555 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
5556 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
5557 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
5559 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
5561 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
5562 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
5563 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
5564 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
5565 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
5566 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
5567 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
5569 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
5570 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
5571 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
5572 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
5573 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
5574 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
5575 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
5576 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
5577 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
5578 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
5579 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
5580 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
5581 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
5584 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
5585 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
5586 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
5587 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
5588 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
5589 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
5590 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
5592 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
5593 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
5594 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
5595 can answer v2 directory requests too.
5596 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
5597 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
5598 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
5599 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
5601 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
5602 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
5603 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
5604 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
5605 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
5606 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
5607 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
5608 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
5609 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
5610 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
5611 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
5612 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
5613 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
5614 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
5615 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
5617 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
5618 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
5621 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
5622 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5623 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
5624 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
5625 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
5626 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
5627 too -- so detect and avoid this.
5628 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
5630 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
5631 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
5632 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
5633 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
5634 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
5635 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
5636 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
5637 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
5638 rendezvous circuits.
5639 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
5641 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5642 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
5643 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
5644 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
5645 advertising it because of hibernation.
5646 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
5647 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
5648 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
5649 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
5650 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
5651 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
5652 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
5653 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
5654 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
5655 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
5656 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
5657 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
5658 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
5659 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
5662 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
5663 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5664 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
5665 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
5666 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
5667 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
5668 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
5669 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
5670 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
5671 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
5672 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
5673 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
5674 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
5675 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
5676 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
5677 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
5678 connections once a week.
5679 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
5680 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
5681 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
5682 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
5683 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
5684 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
5686 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
5687 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
5688 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
5690 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5691 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
5692 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
5693 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
5694 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
5695 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
5696 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
5697 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
5698 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
5699 firewall options forbid.
5700 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
5701 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
5702 can only proxy to certain destinations.
5703 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
5704 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
5705 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
5706 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
5707 aids some statistical attacks.
5708 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
5709 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
5710 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
5711 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
5713 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
5714 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
5715 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
5716 server descriptor sometimes.
5717 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
5718 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
5719 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
5720 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
5721 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
5722 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
5723 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
5724 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
5726 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
5727 case the controller wants to change that too.
5728 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
5729 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
5730 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
5731 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
5733 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
5734 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
5735 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
5737 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
5738 descriptors that they know they will reject.
5740 o Features and updates:
5741 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
5742 significantly faster.
5743 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
5744 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
5745 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
5746 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
5747 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
5748 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
5749 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
5750 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
5751 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
5752 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
5753 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
5754 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
5755 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
5756 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
5757 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
5758 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
5759 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
5760 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
5761 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
5762 as authoritative dirserver.
5763 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
5764 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
5765 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
5768 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
5769 o Usability improvements:
5770 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
5771 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
5773 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
5774 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
5775 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
5777 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
5778 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
5779 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
5780 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
5781 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
5782 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
5783 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
5784 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
5785 memory leaks better.
5786 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
5787 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
5788 their operators to pay close attention.
5789 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
5790 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
5792 o Performance improvements:
5793 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
5794 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
5795 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
5796 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
5797 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
5798 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
5799 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
5800 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
5801 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
5802 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
5803 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
5804 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
5805 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
5806 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
5807 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
5808 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
5809 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
5811 o Security improvements:
5812 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
5813 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
5814 fingerprint of server.
5815 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
5816 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
5817 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
5819 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5820 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
5821 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
5822 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
5823 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
5824 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
5825 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
5826 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
5827 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
5828 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
5829 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
5830 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
5831 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
5832 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
5833 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
5834 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
5835 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
5836 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
5837 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
5838 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
5839 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
5841 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
5842 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
5843 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
5845 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
5846 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
5848 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
5849 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
5850 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
5851 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
5852 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
5853 of the controller protocol.
5854 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
5855 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
5856 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
5859 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
5860 o New features (major):
5861 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
5862 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
5863 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
5864 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
5865 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
5866 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
5867 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
5868 we're using a default DirPort.
5869 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
5871 o New features (minor):
5872 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
5873 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
5874 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
5875 mirrors still cache and serve it).
5876 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
5877 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
5878 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
5879 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
5880 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
5881 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
5882 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
5883 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
5884 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
5885 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
5886 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
5887 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
5888 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
5889 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
5890 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
5892 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
5893 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
5894 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
5895 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
5896 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
5897 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
5898 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
5899 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
5901 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
5902 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
5903 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
5904 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
5905 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
5906 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
5907 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
5908 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
5909 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
5910 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
5912 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
5913 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5914 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5915 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5916 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5919 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
5920 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
5922 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
5923 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
5925 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
5926 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
5927 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
5928 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
5929 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
5930 don't warn twice about the same name.
5931 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
5932 if we've not heard of the server.
5933 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
5934 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
5937 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
5938 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
5939 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
5940 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
5941 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
5942 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
5943 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
5944 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
5945 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
5946 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
5947 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
5948 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
5949 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
5950 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
5951 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
5954 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
5955 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
5956 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
5957 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
5958 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
5960 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
5961 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
5962 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
5963 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
5964 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
5965 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
5969 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
5970 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
5971 nickname) is reachable by you.
5972 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
5976 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
5977 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
5978 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
5979 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
5980 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
5981 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
5982 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
5983 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
5984 we fail to connect).
5985 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
5986 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
5987 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
5988 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
5990 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
5991 it was self-testing that told us so.
5994 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
5995 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
5996 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5997 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
5998 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
5999 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
6000 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
6001 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
6002 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
6003 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
6004 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
6005 exit policy using him for any exits.
6006 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
6009 o New controller features/fixes:
6010 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
6011 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
6012 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
6013 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
6014 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
6015 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
6016 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
6017 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
6018 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
6020 o Start on the new directory design:
6021 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
6022 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
6024 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
6025 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
6026 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
6027 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
6029 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
6030 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
6031 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
6032 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
6033 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
6034 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
6035 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
6036 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
6039 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
6040 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
6041 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
6042 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
6043 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
6044 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
6045 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
6046 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
6047 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
6048 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
6050 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
6051 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
6052 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
6053 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
6054 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
6055 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
6056 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
6057 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
6058 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
6060 o Config option changes:
6061 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
6062 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
6063 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
6064 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
6065 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
6066 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
6069 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
6070 people have started using them for spam too.
6071 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
6072 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
6073 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
6074 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
6075 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
6076 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
6077 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
6078 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
6079 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
6080 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
6081 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
6082 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
6083 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
6084 services faster on the service end.
6085 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
6086 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
6087 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
6088 it a fair shake next time we try.
6089 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
6090 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
6091 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
6092 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
6093 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
6094 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
6095 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
6096 able to discover them.
6097 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
6098 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
6099 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
6100 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
6101 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
6102 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
6103 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
6104 testing for reachability.
6105 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
6106 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
6108 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
6110 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
6111 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
6114 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
6115 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
6117 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6118 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
6119 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
6120 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
6123 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
6124 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6125 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
6127 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
6128 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
6131 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
6132 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
6135 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
6136 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
6137 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
6138 options, getinfo keys.
6141 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
6142 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6143 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
6144 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
6145 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
6146 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
6147 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
6149 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
6150 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
6154 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
6155 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
6156 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
6158 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
6160 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
6161 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
6162 circuit events and we go offline.
6163 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
6164 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
6165 you don't have enough intro points already.
6167 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
6168 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
6169 many bytes we've used in this time period.
6170 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
6171 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
6172 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
6173 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
6174 enabled by default yet.
6176 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
6177 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
6178 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
6179 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
6180 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
6183 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
6184 o New directory servers:
6185 - tor26 has changed IP address.
6187 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6188 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
6189 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
6191 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
6192 claims its dirport is 0.
6193 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
6194 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
6198 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
6199 o New directory servers:
6200 - tor26 has changed IP address.
6202 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
6203 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
6205 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
6206 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
6207 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
6208 ports that have changed.
6209 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
6211 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
6212 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
6213 Windows-style errno back.
6214 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
6216 want to make it an NT service.
6217 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
6218 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
6219 name, give the full name in our response.
6220 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
6221 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
6222 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
6223 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
6226 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
6227 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
6231 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
6232 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
6233 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
6234 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
6235 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
6238 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
6239 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
6240 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
6241 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
6242 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
6243 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
6244 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
6245 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
6248 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
6250 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
6251 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
6252 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
6253 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
6254 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
6255 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
6257 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
6258 temporarily unreachable.
6259 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
6263 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
6264 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
6265 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
6267 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
6271 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
6272 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
6273 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
6274 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
6275 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
6279 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
6280 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
6281 libevent before 1.1a.
6284 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
6286 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
6287 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
6288 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
6289 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
6290 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
6292 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
6293 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
6294 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
6295 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
6296 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
6297 of CPU time plus memory.
6298 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
6299 normal web requests.
6300 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
6301 tor_lookup_hostname().
6302 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
6303 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
6304 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
6305 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
6306 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
6307 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
6309 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
6310 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
6311 HttpProxyAuthenticator
6312 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
6313 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
6314 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
6316 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
6317 the user asks you to.
6318 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
6319 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
6320 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
6321 their descriptors are being rejected.
6322 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
6326 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
6328 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
6329 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
6330 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
6332 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
6334 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
6336 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
6337 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
6338 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
6339 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
6340 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
6341 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
6342 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
6343 keys) from the exit server's process.
6344 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
6345 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
6346 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
6347 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
6348 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
6349 point at your Tor server.
6350 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
6351 you're not sending a socks reply back.
6354 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
6355 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
6356 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
6357 to make it easier to write controllers.
6360 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
6362 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
6363 installing on Tiger.
6364 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
6365 complain during installation.
6366 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
6367 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
6368 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
6369 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
6370 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
6371 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
6373 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
6374 something more reasonable when first installing.
6375 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
6378 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
6380 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
6381 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
6383 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
6384 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
6385 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
6386 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
6387 when using the default exit policy.
6388 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
6389 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
6390 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
6391 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
6392 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
6393 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
6394 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
6395 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
6396 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
6397 we fetched a new directory.
6398 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
6399 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
6402 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
6403 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
6404 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
6405 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
6406 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
6407 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
6408 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
6409 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
6411 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
6412 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
6413 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
6414 save memory on systems that need to fork.
6415 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
6416 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
6417 is valid without actually launching Tor.
6418 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
6419 rather than just rejecting it.
6422 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
6424 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
6425 we didn't like its cert.
6427 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
6428 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
6429 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
6430 on patch from Adam Langley.
6431 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
6432 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
6433 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
6434 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
6436 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
6437 directory every time you regenerate it.
6438 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
6439 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
6442 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
6443 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6444 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
6445 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
6446 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
6449 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
6451 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
6452 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
6453 TLS errors better in other situations too.
6454 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
6455 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
6456 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
6457 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
6458 and don't log when you are.
6459 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
6460 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
6462 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
6463 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
6464 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
6465 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
6466 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
6469 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
6470 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
6471 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
6472 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
6473 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
6474 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
6475 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
6476 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
6477 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
6478 nickname+key are allowed.
6479 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
6480 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
6481 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
6482 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
6483 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
6484 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
6485 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
6486 have quite wrong clocks).
6487 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
6488 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
6489 - Efficiency improvements:
6490 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
6491 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
6492 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
6493 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
6494 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
6495 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
6496 lowercase and be done with it.
6497 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
6498 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
6499 to abandon partially built circuits.
6500 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
6501 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
6503 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
6505 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
6506 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
6507 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
6508 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
6510 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
6511 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
6513 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
6514 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
6515 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
6516 obeying the exit policy internally.
6517 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
6518 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
6520 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
6521 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
6522 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
6523 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
6525 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
6526 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
6527 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
6528 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
6529 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
6531 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
6532 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
6533 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
6534 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
6535 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
6536 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
6537 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
6538 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
6539 descriptors we just dropped.
6540 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
6541 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
6542 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
6543 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
6544 artificially capped at 500kB.
6547 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
6548 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6549 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
6550 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
6551 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
6552 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
6553 busy for more than 100 seconds.
6556 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
6557 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
6558 - Fixes on reachability detection:
6559 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
6560 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
6561 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
6562 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
6563 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
6564 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
6565 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
6566 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
6567 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
6568 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
6569 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
6570 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
6571 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
6572 server not already connected to them.
6573 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
6574 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
6575 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
6577 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
6579 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
6580 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
6581 are in a different state than they actually are.
6582 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
6583 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
6584 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
6586 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
6587 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
6588 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
6590 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
6591 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
6592 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
6593 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
6594 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
6595 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
6596 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
6598 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
6599 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
6600 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
6601 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
6604 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
6605 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6606 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
6607 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
6608 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
6609 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
6610 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
6611 creating actual system users.
6612 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
6613 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
6617 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
6619 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
6620 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
6621 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
6622 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
6623 hidden services better.
6624 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
6626 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
6627 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
6628 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
6629 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
6630 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
6631 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
6632 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
6633 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
6634 patch by Matt Edman).
6635 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
6636 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
6637 required exit node for certain sites.
6638 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
6639 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
6640 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
6641 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
6642 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
6643 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
6644 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
6645 rather than just "success" or "failure".
6646 - A more sane version numbering system. See
6647 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
6648 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
6649 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
6651 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
6652 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
6653 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
6654 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
6655 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
6656 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
6657 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
6659 o Robustness/stability fixes:
6660 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
6661 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
6662 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
6664 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
6665 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
6666 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
6668 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
6669 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
6670 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
6672 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
6673 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
6674 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
6675 that will want high uptime circuits.
6676 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
6677 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
6678 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
6679 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
6680 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
6681 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
6682 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
6683 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
6684 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
6685 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
6686 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
6687 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
6688 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
6689 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
6690 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
6691 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
6692 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
6693 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
6694 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
6695 when we try to launch one.
6696 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
6697 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
6698 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
6699 "ShutdownWaitLength".
6700 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
6701 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
6702 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
6703 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
6704 and to take errno into account where possible.
6707 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
6708 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
6709 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
6710 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
6711 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
6712 file more reasonable.
6713 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
6714 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
6715 addresses -- it won't.
6716 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
6717 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
6718 for google.com" problem.
6719 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
6720 so it's not just "unknown platform".
6721 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
6722 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
6723 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
6724 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
6726 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
6727 they could use instead.
6728 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
6729 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
6730 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
6731 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
6732 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
6733 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
6734 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
6735 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
6736 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
6738 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
6742 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
6743 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
6745 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
6746 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
6747 private-IP addresses.
6748 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
6749 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
6751 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
6752 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
6753 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
6754 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
6755 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
6756 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
6757 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
6759 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
6760 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
6761 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
6762 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
6763 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
6764 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
6765 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
6766 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
6768 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
6770 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
6771 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
6772 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
6773 whether the server is hibernating.
6776 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
6777 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
6778 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
6779 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
6780 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
6781 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
6782 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
6783 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
6784 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
6785 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
6786 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
6787 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
6788 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
6789 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
6790 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
6792 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
6793 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
6794 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
6795 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
6796 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
6797 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
6798 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
6799 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
6800 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
6801 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
6802 existing torrc files.
6803 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
6806 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
6807 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
6808 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
6809 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
6810 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
6811 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
6812 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
6813 the win32 SYSTEM account.
6814 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
6815 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
6816 file descriptors available.
6817 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
6818 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
6819 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
6822 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
6823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6824 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
6825 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
6827 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
6828 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
6829 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
6830 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
6831 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
6833 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
6834 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
6835 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
6836 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
6837 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
6838 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
6839 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
6840 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
6841 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
6842 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
6843 800kB/s of capacity.
6844 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
6847 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
6848 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6849 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
6850 need as much processor time.
6851 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
6852 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
6853 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
6854 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
6855 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
6856 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
6857 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
6858 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
6859 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
6860 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
6861 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
6862 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
6864 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
6865 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
6866 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
6867 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
6868 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
6869 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
6870 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
6873 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
6874 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
6875 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
6877 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
6878 style address, then we'd crash.
6879 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
6880 a dirserver is broken.
6881 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
6883 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
6884 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
6885 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
6887 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
6888 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
6889 name out of the warning/assert messages.
6890 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
6891 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
6892 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
6894 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
6895 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
6896 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
6898 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
6900 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
6901 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
6902 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
6903 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
6904 values at once couldn't work.
6905 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
6906 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
6907 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
6908 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
6909 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
6910 they can handle any number of routers.
6911 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
6912 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
6913 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
6914 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
6915 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
6916 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
6917 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
6918 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
6919 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
6922 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
6923 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
6924 - Make hibernation actually work.
6925 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
6926 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
6927 don't use the stream status code.
6930 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
6932 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
6933 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
6935 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
6938 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
6939 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
6940 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
6941 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
6942 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
6943 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
6944 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
6945 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
6946 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
6947 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
6949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6950 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
6951 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
6952 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
6953 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
6954 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
6955 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
6956 - Make unit tests work on win32.
6959 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
6960 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6961 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
6963 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
6964 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
6965 than just chopping them off.
6966 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
6968 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6969 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
6970 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
6971 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
6972 right after sending the begin cell.
6973 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
6974 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
6975 exit nodes too. Oops.
6978 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
6979 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
6980 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
6981 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
6982 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
6983 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
6984 the user knows which one it's talking about.
6985 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
6986 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
6987 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
6990 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
6991 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
6992 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
6993 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
6995 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
6997 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
6998 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
6999 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
7001 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
7002 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
7003 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
7004 Clip rather than rejecting.
7005 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
7006 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
7009 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
7010 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
7011 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
7012 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
7014 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
7017 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
7018 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7019 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
7020 win32 socket errors better.
7022 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
7023 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
7026 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
7027 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7028 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
7029 so we don't see those messages days later.
7031 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
7032 - Make tor-resolve work again.
7033 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
7034 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
7037 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
7038 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
7039 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
7040 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
7042 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
7043 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
7044 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
7047 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
7048 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7049 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
7050 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
7051 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
7052 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
7053 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
7054 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
7055 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
7057 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
7058 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
7059 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
7060 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
7062 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
7063 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
7066 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
7067 hibernation properties by
7068 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
7069 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
7070 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
7071 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
7072 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
7073 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
7074 get back to normal.)
7075 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
7077 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
7078 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
7079 to fill the last cell completely.
7080 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
7083 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
7084 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7085 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
7086 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
7087 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
7088 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
7089 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
7090 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
7091 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
7092 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
7093 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
7095 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
7096 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
7097 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
7098 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
7099 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
7100 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
7101 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
7102 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
7104 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
7105 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
7106 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
7107 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
7108 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
7109 have it on start-up.
7112 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
7113 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
7114 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
7115 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
7116 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
7117 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
7118 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
7119 configuration to torrc.
7120 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
7121 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
7122 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
7123 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
7124 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
7126 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
7127 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
7128 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
7129 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
7130 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
7131 log more informatively.
7132 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
7133 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
7134 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
7135 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
7136 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
7137 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
7138 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
7139 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
7140 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
7141 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
7142 from each other, to hinder linkability.
7145 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
7146 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
7147 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
7148 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
7149 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
7150 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
7151 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
7153 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
7154 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
7155 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
7156 they ran out of file descriptors.
7157 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
7158 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
7159 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
7160 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
7161 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
7162 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
7163 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
7165 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
7168 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
7169 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
7170 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
7171 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
7172 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
7173 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
7174 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
7175 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
7176 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
7177 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
7178 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
7179 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
7180 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
7181 with the control port.
7182 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
7183 use in authenticating to the control interface.
7184 - New log format in config:
7185 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
7186 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
7189 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
7190 from their dirserver.
7191 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
7193 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
7194 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
7195 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
7196 them act more like real nodes.
7197 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
7198 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
7200 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
7201 nickname to its identity key.
7202 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
7203 not on the command line.
7204 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
7205 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
7206 1024) file descriptors.
7208 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
7209 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
7211 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
7212 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
7213 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
7216 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
7217 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
7218 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
7219 exit policy, not reject *:*.
7220 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
7221 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
7222 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
7223 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
7224 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
7225 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
7226 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
7229 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
7230 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
7231 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
7232 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
7233 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
7234 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
7235 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
7238 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
7239 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
7240 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
7241 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
7242 the ones we find in directories.)
7243 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
7245 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
7246 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
7248 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
7249 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
7250 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
7252 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
7253 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
7254 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
7255 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
7257 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
7258 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
7259 any more exit policy lines.
7262 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
7263 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
7264 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
7265 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
7266 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
7267 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
7268 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
7269 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
7270 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
7271 will be able to get a directory.
7272 - Http proxy support
7273 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
7274 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
7275 be routed through this host.
7276 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
7277 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
7278 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
7279 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
7282 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
7284 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
7285 clients/servers with an open dirport.
7286 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
7287 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
7288 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
7289 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
7290 intermittent connections.
7291 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
7292 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
7294 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
7295 in reporting stats locally.
7296 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
7297 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
7298 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
7301 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
7303 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
7304 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
7307 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
7309 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
7310 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
7311 if you don't want it open.
7312 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
7313 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
7314 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
7315 intermittent connections.
7316 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
7318 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
7319 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
7320 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
7321 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
7322 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
7323 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
7324 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
7325 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
7326 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
7327 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
7328 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
7329 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
7330 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
7331 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
7332 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
7333 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
7336 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
7337 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
7338 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
7339 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
7340 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
7342 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
7344 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
7345 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
7346 specified in HTTP 1.0.
7347 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
7348 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
7349 than once per minute.
7350 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
7351 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
7354 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
7355 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
7358 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
7359 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
7360 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
7361 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
7364 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
7365 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
7367 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
7368 don't put it into the client dns cache.
7369 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
7370 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
7371 until we get our next directory.
7373 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
7374 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
7375 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
7376 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
7377 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
7378 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
7379 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
7380 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
7381 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
7382 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
7383 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
7385 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
7387 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
7388 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
7390 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
7391 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
7392 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
7394 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
7396 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
7397 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
7398 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
7399 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
7400 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
7401 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
7402 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
7403 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
7406 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
7407 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
7408 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
7409 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
7412 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
7413 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
7414 ask them to resolve the host "".
7417 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
7418 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
7419 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
7420 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
7421 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
7422 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
7423 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
7424 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
7425 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
7426 clients don't use this yet.)
7427 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
7428 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
7429 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
7430 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
7431 for pointing out this bug.)
7432 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
7433 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
7434 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
7435 kazaa, gnutella ports.
7436 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
7438 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
7439 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
7440 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
7441 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
7442 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
7443 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
7444 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
7445 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
7446 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
7448 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
7449 that's still handshaking.
7450 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
7451 you'll choose it for your path.
7452 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
7453 end relay cell, etc.
7454 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
7455 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
7456 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
7459 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
7460 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
7462 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
7463 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
7464 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
7465 list to decide who's running or verified.
7466 - Bugfixes and features:
7467 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
7468 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
7469 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
7470 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
7471 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
7472 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
7474 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
7475 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
7476 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
7477 know you might want to get it verified.
7478 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
7481 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
7483 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
7484 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
7485 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
7486 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
7489 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
7490 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
7491 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
7492 hadn't heard of before.
7495 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
7496 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
7497 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
7498 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
7499 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
7500 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
7501 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
7502 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
7503 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
7504 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
7505 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
7506 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
7507 - Directory caching.
7508 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
7509 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
7510 directory they've pulled down.
7511 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
7512 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
7513 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
7514 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
7515 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
7516 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
7517 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
7519 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
7520 This isn't used yet.
7521 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
7522 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
7523 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
7524 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
7525 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
7526 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
7527 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
7528 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
7529 - File and name management:
7530 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
7531 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
7533 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
7534 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
7535 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
7536 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
7537 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
7538 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
7539 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
7541 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
7542 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
7543 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
7544 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
7545 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
7547 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
7548 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
7549 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
7550 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
7551 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
7552 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
7553 - New docs in the tarball:
7555 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
7558 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
7559 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
7560 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
7563 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
7564 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
7565 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
7568 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
7569 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
7572 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
7573 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
7574 - Make it build on Win32 again.
7575 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
7576 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
7580 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
7582 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
7583 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
7584 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
7585 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
7586 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
7587 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
7588 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
7589 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
7590 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
7591 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
7594 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
7597 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
7598 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
7599 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
7600 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
7602 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
7603 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
7604 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
7606 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
7607 hidden service per 15-minute period.
7608 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
7609 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
7610 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
7611 o Fixes for security bugs:
7612 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
7613 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
7614 a trusted dirserver.
7616 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
7617 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
7618 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
7619 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
7620 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
7621 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
7622 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
7623 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
7624 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
7625 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
7627 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
7628 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
7629 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
7630 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
7632 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
7633 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
7634 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
7635 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
7636 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
7637 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
7638 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
7639 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
7640 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
7641 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
7642 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
7643 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
7644 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
7647 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
7648 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
7649 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
7650 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7653 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
7654 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
7655 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
7656 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
7657 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
7658 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
7659 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
7663 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
7667 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
7668 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
7669 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
7670 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
7671 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
7673 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
7676 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
7677 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
7678 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
7679 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
7680 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
7681 o Better debugging for tls errors
7682 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
7683 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
7684 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
7685 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
7686 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
7687 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
7688 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
7689 o win32's close can't close a socket.
7692 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
7693 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
7694 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
7695 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
7696 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
7697 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
7698 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
7699 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
7700 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
7701 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
7702 just close the circ.
7703 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
7704 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
7705 (this was quite rare).
7708 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
7709 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
7710 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
7711 if you decrypted them correctly.
7712 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
7713 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
7714 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
7717 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
7718 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
7719 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
7720 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
7721 a second one and it works.
7722 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
7723 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
7724 alice would just have to wait to time out.
7725 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
7726 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
7727 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
7728 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
7729 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
7730 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
7731 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
7732 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
7733 i'd still like to find the bug though.
7734 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
7736 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
7740 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
7741 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
7742 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
7743 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
7744 he retries a couple of times
7745 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
7746 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
7747 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
7748 too long (they were sticking around forever).
7749 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
7753 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
7754 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
7755 - make hup work again
7756 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
7757 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
7758 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
7759 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
7760 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
7761 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
7763 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
7764 o changes from 0.0.5:
7765 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
7766 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
7767 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
7768 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
7769 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
7771 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
7772 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
7773 in-memory directories too
7776 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
7777 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
7780 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
7782 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
7783 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
7784 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
7785 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
7788 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
7792 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
7793 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
7795 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
7796 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
7797 but that aren't warnings
7800 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
7801 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
7802 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
7803 the dns farm to do it.
7804 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
7805 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
7807 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
7808 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
7809 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
7812 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
7813 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
7814 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
7815 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
7816 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
7817 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
7818 expect it to have a nickname.
7819 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
7820 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
7823 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
7824 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
7828 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
7829 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
7830 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
7831 - include missing header fcntl.h
7832 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
7833 - deal with hardware word alignment
7834 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
7835 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
7836 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
7837 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
7838 by kill -USR1 currently.
7839 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
7840 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
7841 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
7844 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
7845 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
7846 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
7849 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
7851 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
7852 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
7853 - And fix a few endian issues.
7856 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
7858 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
7859 try that circuit again: try a new one.
7860 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
7861 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
7862 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
7863 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
7864 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
7865 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
7867 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
7868 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
7869 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
7871 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
7873 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
7874 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
7875 side isn't reading right then.
7876 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
7878 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
7879 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
7880 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
7883 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
7885 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
7886 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
7889 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
7893 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
7895 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
7896 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
7897 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
7898 connection is finished.
7899 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
7900 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
7901 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
7902 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
7903 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
7904 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
7905 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
7906 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
7907 rather than warn and continue.
7908 - Make --version work
7909 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
7912 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
7914 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
7916 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
7917 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
7919 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
7920 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
7921 so you can collect coredumps there.
7923 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
7924 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
7925 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
7926 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
7927 dns cache actually gets populated.
7928 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
7929 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
7930 end cell down it first.
7931 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
7932 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
7935 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
7937 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
7938 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
7940 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
7941 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
7942 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
7943 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
7944 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
7945 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
7947 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
7949 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
7950 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
7951 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
7952 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
7953 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
7954 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
7956 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
7957 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
7960 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
7962 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
7963 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
7964 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
7965 tor. It even has a man page.
7966 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
7967 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
7968 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
7969 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
7971 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
7973 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
7976 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
7978 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
7980 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
7981 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
7982 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
7983 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
7984 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
7985 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
7986 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
7987 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
7988 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
7989 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
7990 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
7992 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
7993 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
7996 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
7998 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
7999 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
8002 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
8004 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
8005 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
8006 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
8007 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
8008 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
8009 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
8010 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
8011 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
8012 logfile so you know it's working.
8013 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
8014 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
8017 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
8019 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
8020 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
8021 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
8024 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
8026 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
8027 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
8028 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
8031 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
8032 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
8033 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
8035 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
8036 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
8038 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
8039 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
8040 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
8042 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
8043 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
8047 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
8049 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
8050 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
8051 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
8054 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
8055 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
8056 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
8057 - Add port ranges to exit policies
8058 - Add a conservative default exit policy
8059 - Warn if you're running tor as root
8060 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
8061 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
8062 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
8063 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
8065 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
8068 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
8069 o Robustness and bugfixes:
8070 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
8071 really screw things up.
8072 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
8074 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
8075 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
8077 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
8078 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
8079 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
8080 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
8081 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
8082 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
8085 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
8088 - Change default loglevel to warn.
8089 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
8090 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
8092 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
8095 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
8096 o Robustness and bugfixes:
8097 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
8098 - to get ownership/permissions right
8099 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
8100 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
8101 pull down a directory again
8102 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
8103 causing server crashes
8104 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
8105 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
8106 - exit if bind() fails
8107 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
8108 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
8109 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
8110 - fix minor bias in PRNG
8111 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
8114 - Wrote the design document (woo)
8116 o Circuit building and exit policies:
8117 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
8119 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
8120 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
8121 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
8122 exists, rather than failing
8123 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
8124 which AP connections are standing by
8125 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
8126 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
8127 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
8129 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
8130 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
8133 - APPort is now called SocksPort
8134 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
8136 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
8137 hardcoded (for dirservers)
8138 - Reloads config on HUP
8139 - Usage info on -h or --help
8140 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
8143 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
8144 o General stability:
8145 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
8146 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
8147 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
8148 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
8149 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
8150 to take down the network when I approve a new router
8151 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
8154 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
8155 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
8157 o Autoconf improvements:
8158 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
8159 - Make install now works
8160 - create var/lib/tor on make install
8161 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
8162 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
8164 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
8165 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
8166 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
8167 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup