1 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
2 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including fixes
3 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
6 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
10 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
11 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
12 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
13 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
14 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
15 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
16 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
17 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
19 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
20 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
21 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
22 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
23 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
25 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
26 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
27 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
28 Patches from "Mangix".
30 o Minor features (geoip):
31 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
32 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
34 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
35 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
38 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
39 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
40 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
41 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
42 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
43 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
45 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
46 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
47 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
48 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
51 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
52 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
53 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
54 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
56 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
57 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
58 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
61 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
62 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
63 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
64 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
66 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
67 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
68 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
69 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
71 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
72 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
73 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
74 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
75 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
76 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
78 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
79 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
80 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
81 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
82 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
84 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
85 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
86 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
87 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
88 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
90 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
91 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
92 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
94 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
95 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
96 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
98 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
99 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
100 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
101 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
103 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
104 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
105 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
107 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
108 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
109 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
110 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
111 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
114 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
115 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
116 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
117 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
118 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
121 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
122 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
123 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
124 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
125 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
127 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
128 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
129 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
130 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
131 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
132 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
133 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
134 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
136 o Minor features (geoip):
137 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
138 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
140 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
141 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
142 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
143 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
145 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
146 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
147 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
148 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
149 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
152 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
153 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
154 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
155 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
157 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
158 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
159 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
160 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
162 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
163 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
164 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
165 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
166 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
167 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
168 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
169 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
171 o Minor features (geoip):
172 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
173 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
175 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
176 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
177 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
178 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
180 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
181 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
182 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
183 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
184 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
187 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
188 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
189 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
190 backward compatibility.
192 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
193 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
194 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
196 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
197 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
198 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
199 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
200 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
201 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
202 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
203 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
205 o Major bugfixes (networking):
206 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
207 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
208 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
209 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
211 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
212 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
213 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
214 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
215 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
216 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
217 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
219 o Minor features (compilation):
220 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
221 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
222 Patches from "Mangix".
224 o Minor features (developer tooling):
225 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
226 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
227 release. Closes ticket 27761.
228 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows commiting if we have
229 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
230 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
233 o Minor features (directory authority):
234 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
235 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
238 o Minor features (geoip):
239 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
240 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
242 o Minor features (testing):
243 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
246 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
247 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
248 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
249 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
252 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
253 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
254 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
255 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
257 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
258 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
259 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
260 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
262 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
263 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
264 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
266 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
267 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
268 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
269 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
270 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
271 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
272 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
274 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
275 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
276 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
277 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
278 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
280 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
281 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
282 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
284 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
285 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
286 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
288 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
289 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
290 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
291 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
293 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
294 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
295 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
296 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
297 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
300 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
301 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
302 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
303 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
304 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
305 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
306 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
307 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
308 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
309 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
310 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
314 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
315 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
316 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
319 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
322 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
323 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
324 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
325 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
326 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
327 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
330 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
331 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
332 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
333 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
334 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
335 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
337 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
338 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
340 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
341 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
344 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
345 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
346 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
347 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
348 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
349 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
350 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
351 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
352 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
355 o Major features (circuit padding):
356 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
357 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
358 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
359 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
360 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
361 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
362 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
363 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
366 o Major features (refactoring):
367 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
368 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
369 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
370 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
373 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
374 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
375 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
376 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
377 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
380 o Minor features (continuous integration):
381 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
384 o Minor features (controller):
385 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
386 Implements ticket 28843.
388 o Minor features (developer tooling):
389 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
390 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
391 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
393 o Minor features (directory authority):
394 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
395 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
396 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
397 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
400 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
401 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
402 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
403 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
404 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
405 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
406 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
408 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
409 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
410 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
412 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
413 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
414 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
417 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
418 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
419 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
420 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
422 o Minor features (IPv6):
423 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
424 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
425 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
426 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
427 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
428 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
429 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
430 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
431 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
432 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
434 o Minor features (log messages):
435 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
436 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
439 o Minor features (memory usage):
440 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
441 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
442 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
443 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
444 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
446 o Minor features (parsing):
447 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
448 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
449 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
451 o Minor features (performance):
452 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
453 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
454 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
455 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
457 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
458 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
460 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
461 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
462 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
463 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
464 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
465 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
467 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
468 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
469 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
470 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
471 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
473 o Minor features (process management):
474 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
475 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
476 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
477 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
478 module. Closes ticket 28847.
480 o Minor features (relay):
481 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
482 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
483 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
485 o Minor features (required protocols):
486 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
487 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
488 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
489 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
490 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
491 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
492 297; closes ticket 27735.
494 o Minor features (testing):
495 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
496 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
498 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
499 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
500 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
501 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
502 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
506 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
507 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
508 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
510 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
511 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
512 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
514 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
515 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
516 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
517 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
519 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
520 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
521 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
522 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
523 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
525 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
526 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
527 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
528 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
529 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
530 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
531 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
533 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
534 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
535 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
536 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
539 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
540 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
541 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
542 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
543 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
544 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
546 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
547 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
548 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
549 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
551 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
552 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
553 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
554 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
555 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
556 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
558 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
559 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
560 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
561 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
563 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
564 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
565 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
566 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
567 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
569 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
570 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
571 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
572 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
573 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
575 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
576 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
577 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
578 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
579 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
581 o Code simplification and refactoring:
582 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
583 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
584 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
586 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
587 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
588 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
589 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
590 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
591 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
592 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
593 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
597 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
598 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
599 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
600 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
602 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
605 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
606 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
607 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
608 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
609 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
610 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
611 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
614 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
616 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
617 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
619 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
620 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
621 code from client and service into one function. Closes
624 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
625 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
627 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
628 Resolves ticket 28006.
629 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
630 Resolves ticket 28012.
631 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
632 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
633 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
634 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
638 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
639 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
640 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
641 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
642 to this version, or to a later series.
644 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
645 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
646 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
647 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
648 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
649 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
651 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
652 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
653 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
654 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
655 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
658 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
659 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
660 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
661 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
663 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
664 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
665 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
666 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
667 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
668 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
669 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
670 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
672 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
673 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
674 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
675 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
677 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
678 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
679 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
680 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
681 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
683 o Minor features (geoip):
684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
685 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
687 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
688 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
689 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
690 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
691 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
694 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
695 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
696 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
697 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
699 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
700 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
701 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
704 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
705 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
706 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
709 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
710 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
711 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
714 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
715 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
716 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
718 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
719 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
720 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
721 were the same, the default setting (0) for
722 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
723 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
726 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
727 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
728 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
731 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
732 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
733 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
734 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
735 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
737 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
738 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
739 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
740 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
741 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
743 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
744 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
745 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
746 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
747 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
748 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
750 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
751 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
752 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
755 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
756 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
757 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
759 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
760 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
761 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
763 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
764 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
765 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
768 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
769 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
770 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
771 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
772 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
773 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
774 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
775 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
777 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
778 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
779 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
780 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
782 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
783 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
784 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
785 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
786 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
787 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
788 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
789 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
790 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
791 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
793 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
794 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
795 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
796 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
797 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
798 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
800 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
801 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
802 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
803 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
804 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
806 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
807 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
808 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
811 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
812 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
813 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
814 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
817 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
818 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
819 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
822 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
823 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
824 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
825 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
826 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
829 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
830 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
831 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
832 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
833 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
834 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
835 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
837 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
838 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
839 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
842 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
843 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
844 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
845 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
846 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
849 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
850 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
851 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
852 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
853 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
855 o Minor features (geoip):
856 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
857 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
859 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
860 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
861 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
862 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
863 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
866 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
867 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
868 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
869 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
871 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
872 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
873 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
874 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
875 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
878 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
879 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
880 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
881 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
883 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
884 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
885 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
887 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
888 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
889 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
890 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
892 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
893 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
894 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
895 were the same, the default setting (0) for
896 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
897 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
900 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
901 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
902 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
904 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
905 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
906 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
907 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
908 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
910 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
911 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
912 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
913 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
914 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
915 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
917 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
918 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
919 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
920 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
922 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
923 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
924 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
927 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
928 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
929 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
930 affecting directory caches.
932 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
933 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
934 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
935 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
936 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
937 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
938 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
939 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
941 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
942 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
943 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
944 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
945 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
946 so it will recognize them.
948 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
949 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
950 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
951 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
952 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
953 with the latest stable release.)
955 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
956 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
958 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
959 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
960 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
961 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
962 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
963 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
964 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
966 o Minor features (compilation):
967 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
968 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
970 o Minor features (geoip):
971 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
972 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
974 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
975 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
976 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
977 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
978 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
981 o Minor features (performance):
982 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
983 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
984 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
985 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
986 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
987 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
988 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
989 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
990 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
991 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
993 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
994 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
995 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
997 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
998 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
999 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
1000 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
1001 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1004 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
1005 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
1006 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1007 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
1008 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
1009 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1011 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
1012 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
1013 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
1015 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1016 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
1017 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
1021 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
1022 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
1023 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
1024 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
1026 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
1027 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1028 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1031 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1032 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1033 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1034 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1035 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1037 o Minor features (geoip):
1038 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1039 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
1041 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1042 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
1043 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1045 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
1046 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
1047 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
1048 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
1050 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1051 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1052 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1053 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1054 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1055 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1057 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
1058 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
1059 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
1062 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1063 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
1064 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
1065 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1066 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
1067 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1068 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1070 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
1071 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
1072 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
1073 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
1074 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
1075 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
1076 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
1077 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
1079 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
1080 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
1081 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
1082 reported by Keifer Bly.
1085 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
1086 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
1088 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
1089 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
1090 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
1091 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
1092 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
1093 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
1094 Closes ticket 19566.
1096 o Documentation (onion services):
1097 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
1098 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
1099 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
1100 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
1101 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
1102 process. Closes ticket 28275.
1105 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
1106 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
1107 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
1110 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
1111 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1112 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1113 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1114 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1117 o Minor features (geoip):
1118 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1119 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
1121 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1122 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1123 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1124 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1126 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
1127 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
1128 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
1129 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
1130 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
1133 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
1134 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
1135 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
1136 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
1138 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
1139 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
1140 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1142 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1143 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
1144 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1146 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1147 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
1148 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
1151 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1152 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
1153 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
1156 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1157 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1158 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1160 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1161 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
1162 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
1163 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
1164 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
1165 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
1166 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
1167 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
1168 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
1169 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1172 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
1173 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
1174 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
1175 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
1176 acceptable long-term-support release.
1178 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
1179 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
1180 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
1181 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
1182 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
1183 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1185 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
1186 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
1187 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
1188 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
1189 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1191 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1192 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
1194 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
1195 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
1197 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
1198 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
1199 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
1201 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
1202 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1203 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1207 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
1208 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
1211 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
1212 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
1215 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1216 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
1217 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
1220 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
1221 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1222 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
1223 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1225 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1226 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
1227 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
1228 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
1231 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
1232 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
1233 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
1234 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1236 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1237 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
1238 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
1239 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
1240 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
1241 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
1242 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1245 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
1246 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
1249 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
1250 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
1253 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
1254 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
1255 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
1256 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
1257 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1259 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
1260 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1261 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1262 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1263 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1264 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1266 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
1267 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1268 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1269 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1270 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1272 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1273 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
1274 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
1277 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1278 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1279 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1280 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1282 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
1283 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
1284 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
1287 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
1288 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
1289 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
1290 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
1291 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
1293 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1294 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
1295 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1297 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1298 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
1299 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
1300 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
1301 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1303 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1304 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
1305 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
1306 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
1307 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
1310 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1311 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1312 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1313 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1315 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1316 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
1317 Implements ticket 27252.
1318 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1319 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1320 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1321 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1322 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1323 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1324 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1326 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1327 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1328 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1329 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1331 o Minor features (geoip):
1332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1333 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
1335 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1336 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1337 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1338 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1339 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1341 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1342 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1343 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1344 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1345 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1348 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1349 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1350 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1353 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1354 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
1355 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
1356 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
1357 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1360 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1361 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1363 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1364 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
1365 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1367 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1368 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1369 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1370 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1372 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1373 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
1374 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1376 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1377 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
1378 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
1381 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1382 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1383 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1385 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1386 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1387 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1390 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1391 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1392 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1393 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1394 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1397 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
1398 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
1399 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
1400 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
1401 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1403 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1404 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1405 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1408 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1409 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1410 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1411 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1412 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1413 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1414 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1415 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1417 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1418 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1419 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1420 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1422 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1423 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1424 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1425 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1426 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1428 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1429 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1430 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1431 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1432 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1433 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1435 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1436 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1437 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1438 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1439 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1440 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1442 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1443 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
1444 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
1445 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
1448 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1449 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1450 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1451 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1452 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1455 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
1456 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
1457 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
1458 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
1459 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
1460 getting closer and closer to stability.
1462 o Major features (onion services):
1463 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
1464 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
1465 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
1466 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
1467 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
1469 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1470 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
1471 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1473 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
1474 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
1475 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
1476 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1478 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
1479 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
1480 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
1481 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
1482 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1484 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1485 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
1486 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
1487 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
1488 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
1491 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1492 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1493 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1494 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1495 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
1496 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
1499 o Minor features (geoip):
1500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1501 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
1503 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
1504 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1505 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1508 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1509 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
1510 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
1511 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
1512 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
1513 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
1516 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
1517 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
1520 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
1521 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
1522 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
1523 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
1524 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1526 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
1527 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1528 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1529 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1530 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1531 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1534 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1535 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
1536 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1538 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1539 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
1540 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
1542 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
1543 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
1544 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1547 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
1548 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
1550 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1551 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1552 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1553 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1554 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
1555 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
1556 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
1557 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
1558 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1560 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
1561 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1562 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1565 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1566 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
1567 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
1568 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
1570 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
1571 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1573 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1574 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
1575 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
1576 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
1577 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
1578 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
1579 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
1580 Closes ticket 27814.
1581 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
1582 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
1583 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
1584 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
1585 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
1586 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
1589 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
1590 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
1591 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
1592 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
1595 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
1596 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
1597 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
1598 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
1600 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
1601 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
1602 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
1603 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
1604 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
1605 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
1607 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
1608 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
1609 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
1610 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
1611 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
1614 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
1615 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
1616 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
1617 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
1618 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1620 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
1621 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
1622 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1623 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
1624 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
1627 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1628 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1629 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1630 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1631 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1633 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
1634 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
1635 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
1636 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
1638 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
1639 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
1640 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
1643 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
1644 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1645 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1646 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1648 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1649 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
1650 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
1651 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1653 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1654 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
1655 Closes ticket 27799.
1658 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
1659 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
1660 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
1661 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
1662 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
1664 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
1665 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
1666 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
1667 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
1668 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
1669 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
1671 o Major features (relay, UI change):
1672 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
1673 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
1674 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
1675 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
1676 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1677 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
1678 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
1680 o Major features (bootstrap):
1681 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
1682 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
1683 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
1684 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
1686 o Major features (new code layout):
1687 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
1688 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
1689 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
1690 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
1691 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
1692 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
1693 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
1695 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
1696 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
1697 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
1699 o Major features (onion services v3):
1700 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
1701 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
1702 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
1703 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
1704 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
1705 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
1706 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
1707 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1708 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
1709 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
1710 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
1711 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
1712 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
1714 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
1715 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
1716 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
1717 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
1718 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
1719 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
1720 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
1722 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
1723 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
1724 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
1725 (if present), and restart Tor.
1727 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1728 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
1729 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
1730 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
1733 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
1734 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1735 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1736 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1738 o Minor features (admin tools):
1739 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
1740 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
1743 o Minor features (build):
1744 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
1745 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
1746 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
1747 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
1749 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
1750 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
1751 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
1752 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
1753 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
1755 o Minor features (code layout):
1756 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
1757 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
1758 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
1759 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
1762 o Minor features (compilation):
1763 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
1764 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
1765 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
1766 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
1769 o Minor features (config):
1770 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
1773 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1774 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
1775 Implements ticket 27252.
1776 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
1777 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
1778 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1779 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1780 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1781 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1782 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1783 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1784 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1786 o Minor features (controller):
1787 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
1788 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
1789 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
1790 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
1791 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1792 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1793 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1794 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1796 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
1797 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
1798 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
1799 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
1801 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
1802 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
1803 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
1804 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1806 o Minor features (development):
1807 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
1808 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
1810 o Minor features (directory authority):
1811 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
1812 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
1813 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
1814 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
1816 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
1817 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
1820 o Minor features (embedding API):
1821 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
1822 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
1823 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
1824 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
1825 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
1826 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
1829 o Minor features (geoip):
1830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1831 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
1833 o Minor features (memory management):
1834 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
1835 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
1838 o Minor features (memory usage):
1839 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
1840 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
1841 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
1843 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
1844 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
1845 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
1847 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
1848 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
1849 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
1850 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
1852 o Minor features (testing):
1853 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
1854 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
1856 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
1857 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
1858 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
1860 o Minor features (UI):
1861 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
1862 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
1863 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
1864 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
1865 Closes ticket 26703.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
1868 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
1869 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
1870 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1872 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1873 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
1874 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
1875 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1876 - Use time_t for all values in
1877 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
1878 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
1879 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1881 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
1882 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
1883 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
1884 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
1885 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
1888 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
1889 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
1890 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
1891 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
1892 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
1893 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1895 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
1896 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
1897 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
1898 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
1901 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
1902 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
1903 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
1904 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
1906 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
1907 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
1908 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1910 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1911 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
1912 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
1913 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
1914 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
1917 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
1918 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
1919 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1921 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
1922 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
1923 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
1926 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1927 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
1928 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
1929 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
1930 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1932 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1933 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
1934 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
1935 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
1936 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1937 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
1938 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
1940 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
1941 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
1942 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
1943 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
1944 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1946 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
1947 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1948 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1950 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
1951 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
1952 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
1953 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
1956 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1957 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1958 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1961 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
1962 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
1963 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
1964 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
1965 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
1967 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
1968 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
1969 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
1970 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
1972 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
1973 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1974 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1975 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1977 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1978 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
1979 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
1980 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
1981 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
1982 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1983 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1984 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
1985 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
1986 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1988 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
1989 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1990 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1991 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1992 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1993 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1994 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1995 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1998 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
1999 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2000 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2001 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2002 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2003 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2004 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2005 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
2006 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
2007 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2008 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
2009 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2011 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2012 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
2013 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
2014 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
2015 directory within the top-level src directory.
2016 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
2017 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
2018 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
2019 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
2020 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
2021 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
2022 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
2023 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
2024 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
2025 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
2026 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
2027 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
2028 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
2029 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
2030 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
2031 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
2032 Closes ticket 21349.
2033 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
2034 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
2035 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
2036 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
2037 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
2038 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
2039 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
2041 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
2042 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
2043 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
2046 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
2047 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
2048 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
2049 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
2050 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
2053 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
2054 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
2055 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
2056 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
2057 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
2058 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
2059 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
2060 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
2061 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
2062 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
2063 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
2064 Closes ticket 26367.
2067 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
2068 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
2070 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2071 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2072 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2073 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2075 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2076 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2078 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2079 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2080 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2081 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2083 o Minor features (geoip):
2084 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2085 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2087 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2088 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2089 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2090 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2092 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2093 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2094 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2095 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2096 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2097 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2098 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2099 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2102 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2103 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2104 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2105 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2107 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2108 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2109 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2110 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2112 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2113 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2114 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2115 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2117 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2118 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2119 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2120 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2121 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2123 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2124 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2125 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2128 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2129 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2130 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2131 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2132 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2135 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2136 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2139 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2140 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2141 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2142 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2144 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2145 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2146 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2148 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2149 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2150 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2154 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2155 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2156 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2157 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2159 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2160 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2161 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2164 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
2165 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
2167 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2168 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2169 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2170 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2172 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2173 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2175 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2176 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2177 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2178 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2180 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2181 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2184 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2185 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2186 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2187 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2189 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2190 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2191 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2192 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2194 o Minor features (geoip):
2195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2196 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2198 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2199 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2200 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2201 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2202 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2203 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2204 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2207 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2208 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2209 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2210 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2211 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2212 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2213 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2216 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2217 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2218 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2219 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2221 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2222 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2223 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2224 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2226 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2227 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2228 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2229 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2230 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2232 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2233 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2234 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2235 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2236 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2238 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2239 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2240 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2243 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2244 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2245 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2246 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2247 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2249 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2250 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2251 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2254 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2255 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2256 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2259 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2260 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2261 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2264 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2265 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2267 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2268 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2269 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2270 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2272 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2273 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2274 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2275 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2277 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2278 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2279 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2281 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2282 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2283 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2284 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2285 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2286 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2287 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2290 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
2291 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
2292 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
2293 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
2294 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2297 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2298 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2299 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2300 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2302 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2303 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2304 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2307 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
2308 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
2310 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2311 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
2312 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
2313 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
2315 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2316 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2317 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2318 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2320 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2321 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
2322 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2324 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2325 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2326 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2327 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2329 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2330 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2333 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2334 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2335 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2336 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2338 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2339 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2340 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2341 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2343 o Minor features (geoip):
2344 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2345 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2347 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2348 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2349 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2350 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2351 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2352 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2353 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2355 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2356 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2357 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2358 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2359 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2360 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2361 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2362 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2365 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2366 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2367 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2368 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2370 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2371 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2372 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2373 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2375 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2376 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2377 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2378 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2379 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2381 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2382 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2383 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2384 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2385 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2387 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2388 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2389 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2392 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2393 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
2394 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
2395 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2397 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2398 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2399 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2400 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2401 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2403 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2404 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2405 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2408 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2409 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2410 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2413 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2414 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2415 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2418 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2419 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
2420 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
2421 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2423 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2424 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
2425 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
2428 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2429 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2431 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2432 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2433 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
2434 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
2435 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2436 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
2437 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
2439 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2440 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2441 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
2442 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
2443 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2445 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2446 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2447 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2448 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2450 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2451 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2452 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2454 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2455 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2456 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2457 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2458 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2459 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2460 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2463 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2464 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2465 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2466 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2467 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2469 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2470 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2471 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2472 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2473 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2475 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2476 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2477 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2480 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
2481 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
2482 compilation and portability fixes.
2484 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
2485 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
2486 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
2487 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
2488 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
2489 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
2490 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
2491 our anti-denial-of-service code.
2493 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
2494 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2496 o Minor features (compatibility):
2497 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2498 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2499 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2501 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2502 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
2503 Implements ticket 27449.
2504 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
2505 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
2508 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2509 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2510 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2511 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2512 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2513 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2514 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2515 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2518 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2519 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
2520 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
2521 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
2522 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
2523 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2524 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2525 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2526 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2527 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2529 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2530 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2531 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2534 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
2535 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
2536 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
2537 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
2538 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2539 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2540 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2543 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
2544 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
2545 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
2546 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
2547 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
2549 o Minor features (bug workaround):
2550 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
2551 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
2552 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
2554 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2555 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
2556 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2558 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2559 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2560 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
2561 Implements ticket 27275.
2562 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2563 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2565 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
2566 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2569 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2570 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2571 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2572 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2574 o Minor features (geoip):
2575 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2576 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
2579 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2580 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2581 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2583 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2584 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
2585 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
2586 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
2587 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2588 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2589 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2590 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2592 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
2593 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
2594 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
2595 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2597 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2598 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2599 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2600 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2601 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2603 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2604 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
2605 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
2608 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2609 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
2610 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
2613 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2614 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
2616 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
2617 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2618 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
2619 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
2620 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2621 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
2622 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
2624 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
2625 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2626 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
2627 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
2628 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2630 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
2631 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
2632 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
2633 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
2634 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2636 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
2637 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2638 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2639 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2640 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2642 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
2643 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2644 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2647 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
2648 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
2649 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
2650 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
2651 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
2653 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
2654 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
2655 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
2656 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
2657 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
2658 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2660 o Minor features (compilation):
2661 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2662 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2664 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2665 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2666 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2667 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2668 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2669 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2671 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2672 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2673 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2674 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2676 o Minor features (controller):
2677 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2678 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2679 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2681 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2682 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2683 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2686 o Minor features (geoip):
2687 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2688 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2690 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
2691 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
2693 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2694 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
2695 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
2696 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2697 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2698 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2699 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2701 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2702 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
2703 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2704 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
2705 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
2706 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
2708 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
2709 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
2710 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
2713 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
2714 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2715 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2717 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2718 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
2719 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
2722 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2723 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
2724 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2725 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
2726 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
2727 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2729 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
2730 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
2731 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
2732 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2734 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2735 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2736 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2738 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
2739 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
2740 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
2741 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
2742 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
2743 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
2745 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2746 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
2747 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
2748 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
2749 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
2752 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
2753 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2754 bridge relays should upgrade.
2756 o Directory authority changes:
2757 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2758 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2759 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2762 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
2763 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2764 bridge relays should upgrade.
2766 o Directory authority changes:
2767 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2768 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2769 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2772 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
2773 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2774 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2777 o Directory authority changes:
2778 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2779 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2780 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2782 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2783 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2784 Closes ticket 26343.
2786 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2787 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2788 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2789 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2790 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2792 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2793 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
2794 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
2796 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2797 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2798 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2799 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2801 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2802 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
2803 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
2805 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2806 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2807 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2808 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2809 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2810 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2812 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2813 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
2814 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
2815 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
2817 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2818 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2819 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2822 o Minor features (geoip):
2823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2824 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2826 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2827 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2828 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2829 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2830 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2832 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2833 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2834 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2836 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2837 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
2838 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
2839 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
2840 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2841 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2842 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2843 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2846 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2847 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2848 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2849 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2850 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2851 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2853 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2854 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
2855 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
2856 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
2857 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2859 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2860 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2861 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2862 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2863 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2865 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2866 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2867 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2870 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2871 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2872 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2874 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2875 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
2876 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
2877 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
2879 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2880 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
2881 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2882 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
2883 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
2884 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
2885 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2887 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
2888 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
2889 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
2890 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
2893 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2894 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
2895 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2897 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2898 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
2899 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2901 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2902 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2903 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
2904 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
2907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2908 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
2909 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
2910 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
2912 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2913 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
2914 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
2916 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
2917 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
2918 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
2921 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
2922 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
2923 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
2926 o Directory authority changes:
2927 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
2928 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
2929 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
2931 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
2932 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
2933 Closes ticket 26343.
2935 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2936 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
2937 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
2938 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
2939 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2941 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
2942 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
2943 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
2944 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
2946 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2947 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
2948 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
2949 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
2950 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
2951 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
2953 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2954 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
2955 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
2958 o Minor features (geoip):
2959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2960 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
2962 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2963 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
2964 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
2965 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
2966 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2969 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
2970 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2972 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2973 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
2974 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
2975 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
2978 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2979 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
2980 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
2981 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
2982 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
2983 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2985 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
2986 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
2987 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
2988 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
2989 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2991 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
2992 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
2993 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
2996 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
2997 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
2998 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3001 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3002 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3003 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3005 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3006 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3007 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3009 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3010 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3011 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3014 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
3015 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3016 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3017 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3018 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3020 o Minor features (compilation):
3021 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3022 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3025 o Minor features (geoip):
3026 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3027 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3029 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
3030 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
3032 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3033 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3034 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3035 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3036 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3038 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3039 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
3040 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3041 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
3042 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
3043 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3045 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
3046 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
3047 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
3050 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
3051 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3052 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3054 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
3055 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3056 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3057 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3058 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3059 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3060 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3061 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3065 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
3066 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3067 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
3069 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3070 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
3071 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
3072 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3074 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3075 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
3076 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
3079 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3080 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3081 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3084 o Minor features (geoip):
3085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3086 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3088 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3089 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3090 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3091 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3093 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3094 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
3095 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
3096 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
3097 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
3100 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3101 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3102 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3103 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3104 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3106 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3107 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
3108 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
3109 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3111 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3112 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3113 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3115 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3116 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3117 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3118 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3121 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3122 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
3123 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
3124 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3126 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3127 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3128 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3129 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3130 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3131 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3132 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3133 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3137 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
3138 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
3139 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
3141 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3142 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
3143 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
3144 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3146 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
3147 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
3148 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
3151 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
3152 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
3153 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
3154 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
3156 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
3157 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3158 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3159 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3161 o Minor features (unit tests):
3162 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
3163 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
3164 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
3167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3168 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
3169 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
3170 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3171 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
3172 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
3173 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3174 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
3175 Closes ticket 26245.
3177 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3178 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
3179 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
3180 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
3181 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
3182 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3184 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3185 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3186 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3187 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3190 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3191 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
3192 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3193 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
3194 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
3195 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
3196 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
3197 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
3198 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3199 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
3200 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
3201 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
3202 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
3203 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3206 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
3207 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3208 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
3210 o Directory authority changes:
3211 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3212 Closes ticket 26343.
3214 o Minor features (geoip):
3215 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3216 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
3218 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3219 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3220 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3221 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3222 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3223 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3226 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3227 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3229 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3230 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
3231 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
3232 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
3233 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3235 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3236 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3237 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3239 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3240 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
3241 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
3242 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
3243 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
3244 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3247 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
3248 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
3249 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
3251 o Directory authority changes:
3252 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3253 Closes ticket 26343.
3255 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
3256 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
3257 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
3258 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
3259 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
3261 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3262 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
3263 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
3264 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
3266 o Minor features (geoip):
3267 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3268 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
3270 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
3271 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3272 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3273 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3274 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3275 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3277 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3278 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3279 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3280 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
3281 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3282 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
3283 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
3284 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3286 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3287 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
3288 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
3289 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
3292 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3293 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
3294 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
3295 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
3296 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3298 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
3299 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3300 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3302 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3303 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
3304 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3306 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
3307 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
3308 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
3309 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
3313 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
3314 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
3315 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3317 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
3318 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
3319 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
3320 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
3321 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
3322 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
3324 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
3325 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3327 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3328 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3329 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3330 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3331 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3333 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
3334 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
3335 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
3336 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
3337 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
3339 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3340 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
3341 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
3342 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3344 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3345 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
3346 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
3347 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3349 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3350 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3351 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3353 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3354 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
3355 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
3358 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3359 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
3360 Closes ticket 26006.
3362 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3363 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3364 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3365 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3366 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3367 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3369 o Minor features (geoip):
3370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
3371 database. Closes ticket 26104.
3373 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3374 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3375 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3378 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3379 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3380 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3381 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3382 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3385 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
3386 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
3387 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
3388 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
3391 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3392 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3393 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3396 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3397 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3398 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3399 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3400 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3401 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3403 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3404 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3405 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3407 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3408 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
3409 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
3412 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
3413 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
3414 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
3415 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
3416 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
3417 other small features and bugfixes.
3419 o New system requirements:
3420 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
3421 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
3422 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
3423 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
3425 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
3426 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
3427 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
3428 To disable the module, the configure option
3429 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
3430 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
3432 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
3433 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
3434 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
3435 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
3436 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
3437 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
3438 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
3439 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
3440 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
3441 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
3442 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
3444 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
3445 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
3446 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
3447 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
3448 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
3449 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
3450 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
3451 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
3452 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
3453 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
3454 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
3455 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
3456 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
3457 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
3458 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
3459 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
3460 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
3461 Tor's uptime (26009).
3463 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
3464 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3465 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3466 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3467 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3469 o Major bugfixes (crash):
3470 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
3471 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
3472 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3474 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3475 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
3476 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
3477 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3479 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3480 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3481 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3483 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
3484 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
3485 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
3486 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
3487 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
3488 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
3489 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
3490 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
3491 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
3492 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
3493 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
3494 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
3495 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
3496 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3498 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
3499 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
3500 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
3503 o Minor features (accounting):
3504 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
3505 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
3506 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
3507 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
3509 o Minor features (code quality):
3510 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
3511 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
3512 Closes ticket 25024.
3514 o Minor features (compatibility):
3515 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
3516 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
3517 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
3518 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
3519 Closes ticket 26006.
3521 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
3522 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
3523 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
3524 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
3525 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
3526 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
3528 o Minor features (configuration):
3529 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
3530 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
3531 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
3532 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
3533 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
3535 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3536 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3537 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3538 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3539 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3540 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3542 o Minor features (control port):
3543 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
3544 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
3545 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
3546 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3547 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
3548 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
3549 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
3550 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
3551 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
3552 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
3554 o Minor features (directory authority):
3555 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
3556 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
3557 Closes ticket 23909.
3559 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
3560 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
3561 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
3562 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
3564 o Minor features (entry guards):
3565 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
3566 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
3568 o Minor features (geoip):
3569 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
3570 database. Closes ticket 26104.
3572 o Minor features (performance):
3573 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
3574 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
3575 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
3576 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
3578 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
3579 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
3581 o Minor features (testing):
3582 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
3583 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
3585 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
3586 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
3587 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
3588 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
3589 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
3590 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
3592 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
3593 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
3594 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
3595 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
3596 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3598 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
3599 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
3600 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
3601 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
3602 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
3603 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
3605 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3606 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
3607 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
3608 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
3610 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
3611 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
3612 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
3613 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
3614 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
3617 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3618 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3619 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3622 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
3623 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
3624 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3625 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
3626 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
3628 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
3629 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
3630 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
3631 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
3632 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3634 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3635 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
3636 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
3637 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
3638 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3640 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
3641 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
3642 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
3643 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
3644 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3646 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
3647 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
3648 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3649 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
3650 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
3651 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
3654 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3655 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
3656 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
3657 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
3658 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
3661 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
3662 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
3663 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
3664 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
3665 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
3666 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
3667 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
3669 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3670 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3671 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3673 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
3674 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3675 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3676 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3677 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3678 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3679 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3681 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3682 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
3683 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
3684 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
3685 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
3686 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3688 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3689 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
3690 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
3693 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
3694 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
3695 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
3696 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3698 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
3699 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
3700 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
3701 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
3702 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
3703 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
3704 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3706 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
3707 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3708 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3710 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
3711 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
3712 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
3713 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3715 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3716 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
3717 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
3718 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
3719 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
3720 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3721 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
3722 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
3724 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
3725 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
3726 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3727 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
3728 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
3729 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
3730 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
3732 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
3733 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
3734 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
3735 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
3736 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
3738 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
3739 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
3740 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
3743 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
3744 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
3745 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
3746 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
3747 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
3748 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3750 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3751 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
3752 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
3753 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3754 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
3755 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
3756 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
3757 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
3759 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
3760 confusing we renamed some functions and
3761 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
3762 router_should_check_reachability() and
3763 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
3764 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
3765 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
3766 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
3767 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
3769 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
3770 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
3772 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
3773 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
3774 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3775 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
3776 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
3777 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
3778 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
3779 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
3780 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
3781 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
3782 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
3783 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
3784 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
3785 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
3786 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
3787 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3788 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
3789 Closes ticket 25766.
3790 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
3791 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
3792 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
3793 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
3794 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
3795 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
3796 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
3797 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
3798 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
3799 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
3800 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3801 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
3802 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
3803 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
3805 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
3806 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
3807 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
3808 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
3809 before. Closes ticket 26016.
3810 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
3811 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
3812 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
3813 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
3815 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
3816 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
3817 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
3818 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3820 o Deprecated features:
3821 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
3822 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
3823 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
3824 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
3825 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
3826 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
3829 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
3830 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
3833 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
3834 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
3835 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
3836 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
3837 24378 and proposal 290.
3838 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
3839 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
3840 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
3841 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
3842 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
3843 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
3844 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
3845 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
3846 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
3847 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
3848 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
3849 their local router. Closes 25409.
3850 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
3851 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
3852 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
3853 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
3854 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
3855 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
3856 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
3857 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
3858 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
3859 Closes ticket 25268.
3862 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
3863 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
3864 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
3866 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
3867 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
3868 be nearly identical to this one.
3870 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
3871 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
3872 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
3873 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
3874 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
3875 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3877 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
3878 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
3879 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
3880 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
3881 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
3882 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
3883 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
3885 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
3886 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
3887 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
3889 o Minor features (config options):
3890 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
3891 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
3892 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
3895 o Minor features (geoip):
3896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3897 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
3899 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3900 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
3901 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
3902 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
3903 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
3904 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3906 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3907 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
3908 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
3909 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3911 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
3912 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
3913 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
3914 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3915 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
3916 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
3917 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3919 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3920 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
3921 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
3922 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
3923 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3924 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
3925 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3927 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
3928 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
3929 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
3930 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
3931 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
3933 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3934 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
3935 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
3937 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
3938 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
3939 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
3941 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3942 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3943 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3945 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
3946 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
3947 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
3951 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
3952 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
3953 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
3954 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
3956 o New system requirements:
3957 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
3958 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
3960 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
3961 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
3962 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
3963 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
3964 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3966 o Minor features (geoip):
3967 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3968 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
3970 o Minor features (log messages):
3971 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
3972 information about memory usage from the different compression
3973 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
3975 o Minor features (sandbox):
3976 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3977 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3978 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3980 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3981 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3982 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3983 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3985 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
3986 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
3987 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
3989 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3990 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
3991 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
3992 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3994 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
3995 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
3996 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
3997 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3999 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4000 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
4001 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
4002 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
4004 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4005 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
4006 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
4008 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4009 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
4010 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
4011 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
4012 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
4013 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4015 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4016 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4017 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
4018 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
4020 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
4021 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
4022 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
4023 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
4025 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
4026 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
4027 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
4028 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
4031 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
4032 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
4033 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
4034 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
4035 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4037 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4038 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
4039 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
4043 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
4045 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
4046 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
4049 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
4050 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
4053 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4054 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4056 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4057 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4059 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4062 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
4063 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
4064 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
4066 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
4067 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
4068 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
4069 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
4072 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4073 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4074 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4075 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4078 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4079 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4080 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4081 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4082 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4083 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4084 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4085 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4086 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4087 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4088 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4089 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4090 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4092 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4093 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4094 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4096 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4097 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4098 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4099 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4100 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4101 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4102 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4104 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4105 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4106 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4108 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4109 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4110 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4111 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4112 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4113 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4114 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4116 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4117 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4118 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4119 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4121 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4122 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4123 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4124 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4126 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4127 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4128 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4129 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4130 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4131 Closes ticket 24978.
4133 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4134 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4135 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4136 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4137 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4138 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4139 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4140 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4141 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4143 o Minor features (geoip):
4144 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4147 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4148 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4149 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4150 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4151 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4153 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4154 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4155 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4156 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4157 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4160 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4161 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4162 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4163 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4166 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4167 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4168 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4169 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4170 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4171 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4172 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4173 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4174 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4175 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
4176 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
4179 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
4180 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4181 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4183 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4184 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4185 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4188 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4189 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4190 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4191 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4192 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4193 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4194 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4196 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4197 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4198 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4199 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4200 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4201 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4202 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4203 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4204 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4207 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4208 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4209 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4210 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4211 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4212 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4214 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4215 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4216 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4217 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4219 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
4220 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4221 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4222 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4223 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4226 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4227 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4228 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4229 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4230 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4231 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4233 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4234 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4235 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4236 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4237 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4238 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4239 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4240 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4241 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4242 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4243 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4244 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4246 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4247 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4248 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4249 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4251 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4252 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4253 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4254 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4256 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4257 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4258 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4259 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4262 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
4263 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
4264 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
4265 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
4266 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
4268 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4269 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4271 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4272 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4274 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4275 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4276 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4279 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
4280 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
4283 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4284 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4286 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4287 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4289 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4292 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
4293 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
4294 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
4296 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4297 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4298 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4299 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4302 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
4303 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4304 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4305 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4306 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4307 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4308 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4309 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4310 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4311 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4312 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4313 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4314 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4316 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4317 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4318 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4319 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4320 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4321 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4322 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4323 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4324 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4326 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
4327 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4328 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4329 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4330 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4331 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4332 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4334 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
4335 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4336 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4337 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4339 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
4340 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4341 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4342 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4343 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4344 Closes ticket 24978.
4346 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4347 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4348 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4349 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4351 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4352 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4353 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4354 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4355 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4356 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4357 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4358 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4359 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4361 o Minor features (geoip):
4362 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4365 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4366 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4367 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4369 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
4370 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4371 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4372 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4373 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4375 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
4376 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4377 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4378 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4379 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
4382 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4383 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4384 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4385 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4389 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4390 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4392 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4393 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4394 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4397 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4398 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4399 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4400 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4401 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4402 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4403 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4405 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
4406 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4407 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4408 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4409 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4412 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
4413 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4414 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4415 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4416 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4417 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4419 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
4420 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4421 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4422 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4424 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4425 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4426 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4427 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4428 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
4429 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
4430 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4431 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
4432 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
4433 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4434 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
4435 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
4438 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
4439 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
4440 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
4443 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4444 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
4445 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
4446 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
4447 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
4449 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4450 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4452 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4453 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4456 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
4457 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
4458 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
4461 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4462 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4464 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
4465 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
4466 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
4467 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
4468 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
4469 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
4472 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4473 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4475 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4478 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
4479 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
4480 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
4481 the DoS mitigations.)
4483 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4484 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4485 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4486 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4489 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4490 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
4491 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
4492 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4494 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4495 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4496 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4497 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4498 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4499 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4500 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4501 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4502 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4503 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4504 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4505 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4506 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4508 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4509 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4510 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4511 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4512 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4513 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4514 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4515 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
4516 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
4517 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
4518 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4520 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4521 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4522 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4524 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4525 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4526 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4527 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4528 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4529 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4530 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4532 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4533 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
4534 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
4535 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4537 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4538 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4539 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4540 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4542 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4543 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4544 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4545 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4546 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4547 Closes ticket 24978.
4549 o Minor features (geoip):
4550 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4553 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4554 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
4555 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
4558 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4559 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4560 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4561 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4562 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4564 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4565 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4566 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4567 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4568 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4569 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4570 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4572 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4573 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4574 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4575 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4576 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4578 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4579 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
4580 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
4581 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4583 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4584 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
4585 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
4586 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
4587 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4589 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4590 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4591 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4592 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4594 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4595 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
4596 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
4597 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4599 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4600 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
4601 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
4602 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4604 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4605 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4607 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4608 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4610 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4611 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
4612 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
4614 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4615 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
4616 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
4617 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
4618 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4620 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4621 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4622 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4624 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
4625 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
4626 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
4630 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
4631 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
4632 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4633 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4635 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
4636 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
4637 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
4638 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
4639 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
4640 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4642 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4645 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
4646 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
4647 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
4648 the DoS mitigations.)
4650 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
4651 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4652 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4653 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4656 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
4657 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4658 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4659 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4660 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4661 Closes ticket 24978.
4663 o Minor features (logging):
4664 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
4665 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
4667 o Minor features (testing):
4668 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
4671 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
4672 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4673 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4674 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4675 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4676 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4677 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4679 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
4680 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
4681 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
4682 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4683 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
4684 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
4687 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
4688 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
4689 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
4690 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
4692 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4693 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
4694 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
4695 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
4696 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
4699 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
4700 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
4702 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
4703 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4705 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
4706 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
4707 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4708 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
4710 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4711 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
4712 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
4715 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
4716 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
4717 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
4718 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
4719 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
4720 it to older supported release series.
4722 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
4723 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4724 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4725 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4726 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4727 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4728 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4729 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4730 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4731 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4732 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4733 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4734 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4736 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
4737 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
4738 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
4739 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
4740 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
4741 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
4742 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
4743 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4745 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
4746 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4747 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4749 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
4750 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
4751 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
4752 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4754 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
4755 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4756 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4757 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4759 o Minor features (directory authority):
4760 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
4761 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
4763 o Minor features (geoip):
4764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4767 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
4768 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
4769 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
4772 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
4773 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4774 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4775 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4776 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4778 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
4779 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4780 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4781 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4782 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4784 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
4785 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
4786 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
4787 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
4789 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
4790 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
4791 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
4792 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
4793 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4795 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4796 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
4797 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
4798 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4800 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4801 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4802 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4803 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4804 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
4805 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
4806 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
4808 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4809 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
4810 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
4811 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
4812 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4813 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
4814 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
4815 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4818 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
4819 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
4820 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
4821 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
4822 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
4823 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4825 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
4826 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
4827 would call the Rust implementation of
4828 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
4829 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
4830 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
4831 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
4832 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4834 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
4835 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
4836 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
4839 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
4840 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
4841 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
4842 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
4843 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
4844 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4846 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4847 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
4848 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
4849 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
4850 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4852 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4853 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
4855 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
4856 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
4857 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
4860 o Documentation (man page):
4861 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
4862 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
4866 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
4867 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
4868 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
4869 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
4870 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
4871 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
4874 o Major features (embedding):
4875 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
4876 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
4877 Closes ticket 23684.
4878 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
4879 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
4880 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
4881 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
4882 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
4883 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
4885 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
4886 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
4887 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
4888 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
4889 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
4890 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
4891 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
4892 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
4893 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
4894 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
4895 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
4898 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
4899 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
4900 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
4901 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
4902 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
4903 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
4904 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
4906 o Major features (onion services):
4907 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
4908 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
4909 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
4910 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
4911 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
4914 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
4915 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
4916 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
4917 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
4918 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
4919 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
4920 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
4921 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
4923 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
4924 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
4925 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
4926 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
4927 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
4929 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
4930 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
4931 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
4932 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
4933 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
4934 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
4935 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4937 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
4938 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4939 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4940 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4941 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4942 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4943 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4944 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
4945 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
4946 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
4947 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4949 o Major bugfixes (relays):
4950 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4951 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4952 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4953 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4954 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4955 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4957 o Minor feature (IPv6):
4958 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
4959 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
4960 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
4961 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
4962 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
4963 Implements ticket 23827.
4965 o Minor features (cleanup):
4966 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
4967 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
4969 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4970 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
4971 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
4972 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
4973 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
4974 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
4975 once. Part of ticket 24337.
4976 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
4977 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
4978 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
4980 o Minor features (embedding):
4981 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
4982 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
4983 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
4984 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
4985 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
4986 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
4987 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
4988 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
4989 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
4990 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
4991 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
4992 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
4993 Closes ticket 23848.
4994 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
4995 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
4996 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
4998 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4999 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
5000 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
5001 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
5002 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
5003 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
5004 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
5005 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
5008 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
5009 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
5010 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
5011 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
5012 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
5013 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
5014 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
5016 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
5017 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
5018 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
5019 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
5020 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
5021 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
5022 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
5023 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
5024 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
5025 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
5026 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
5027 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
5029 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
5030 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
5031 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
5033 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
5034 Implements ticket 24791.
5036 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
5037 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
5038 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
5039 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
5040 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
5041 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
5043 o Minor features (heartbeat):
5044 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
5045 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
5048 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
5049 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
5050 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
5051 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
5052 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
5054 o Minor features (log messages):
5055 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
5056 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
5057 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
5058 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
5060 o Minor features (logging, android):
5061 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
5064 o Minor features (performance):
5065 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
5066 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
5067 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
5068 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
5070 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
5071 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5072 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
5073 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
5074 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5075 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
5076 Implements ticket 24374.
5078 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
5079 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
5080 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
5081 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
5082 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
5084 o Minor features (performance, windows):
5085 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
5086 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
5087 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
5090 o Major features (relay):
5091 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
5092 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
5093 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
5094 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
5095 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5097 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
5098 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
5099 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
5100 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
5101 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
5102 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
5103 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
5104 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
5105 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
5107 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
5108 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
5109 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
5110 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5112 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
5113 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
5114 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
5115 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
5116 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
5117 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
5118 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5119 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
5120 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
5121 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
5122 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
5123 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
5126 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
5127 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
5128 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
5129 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
5132 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
5133 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
5134 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
5137 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
5138 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
5139 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
5141 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
5142 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5143 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
5144 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
5145 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
5147 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
5148 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5149 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
5150 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5152 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
5153 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
5154 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5155 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
5156 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
5157 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5159 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5160 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
5161 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
5162 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
5164 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5165 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
5166 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
5167 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
5168 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5169 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
5172 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
5173 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5174 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5175 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5177 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
5178 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5179 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5180 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5182 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
5183 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
5184 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
5185 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
5186 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
5187 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5188 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
5189 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
5190 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
5191 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
5192 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
5193 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5195 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5196 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
5197 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5198 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
5199 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
5201 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5202 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
5204 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
5205 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
5206 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
5207 "aruna1234" and teor.
5208 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
5209 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
5210 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
5211 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
5213 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
5214 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
5215 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
5216 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
5217 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
5218 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
5219 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
5220 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
5221 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
5222 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
5224 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
5225 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
5228 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
5229 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
5231 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
5232 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
5233 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
5234 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
5235 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
5236 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
5239 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
5240 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
5241 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
5242 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
5243 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
5245 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
5246 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
5247 adding very little except for unit test.
5249 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
5250 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
5251 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
5252 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
5254 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5255 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
5256 const. Implements ticket 24489.
5259 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
5260 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
5262 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
5263 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
5264 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
5265 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
5266 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
5267 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
5269 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
5270 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
5271 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
5272 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
5273 with the 0.2.9 series.
5275 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
5276 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5278 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5279 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
5280 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
5281 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
5282 information. Closes ticket 24801.
5283 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
5284 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
5285 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
5286 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
5288 o Minor features (geoip):
5289 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5292 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
5293 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
5294 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
5295 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
5296 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
5299 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5300 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
5301 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5303 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
5304 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5305 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5306 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5310 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
5311 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
5312 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
5313 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
5314 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
5315 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
5316 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
5318 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
5319 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
5320 will be nearly identical to this.
5322 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
5323 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
5324 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
5325 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
5326 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
5327 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
5328 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5330 o Minor features (geoip):
5331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5334 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5335 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
5336 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
5337 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5339 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
5340 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5341 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5342 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5343 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5346 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5347 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
5348 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
5349 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
5350 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
5351 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5354 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
5355 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
5356 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
5358 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
5359 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
5360 be nearly identical to this.
5362 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
5363 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
5364 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
5365 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
5366 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
5367 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
5368 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5370 o Minor features (logging):
5371 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
5374 o Minor features (portability):
5375 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
5376 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
5379 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
5380 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
5381 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
5382 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
5383 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5384 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
5385 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
5386 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
5387 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5388 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
5389 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
5390 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
5391 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5393 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5394 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5395 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5398 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
5399 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
5400 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
5401 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
5402 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
5403 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
5406 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5407 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
5408 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
5409 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
5410 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
5411 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
5412 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5414 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5415 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
5416 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
5417 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5418 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
5419 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
5420 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
5421 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5422 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
5423 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
5424 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5427 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
5428 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
5429 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
5430 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
5433 o Major bugfixes (security):
5434 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5435 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5436 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5437 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5438 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5439 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5440 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5441 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5442 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5443 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5445 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5446 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5447 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5448 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5449 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5450 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5451 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5454 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
5455 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5456 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5457 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5458 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5460 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
5461 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5462 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5463 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5464 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5465 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5466 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5467 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5468 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5470 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
5471 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5472 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5473 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5475 o Minor features (directory authority):
5476 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5479 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5480 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
5481 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
5482 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5485 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
5486 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
5487 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
5488 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
5490 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5491 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5492 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5493 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5494 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5495 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5496 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5497 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5498 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5499 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5500 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5502 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5503 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5504 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5505 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5506 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5507 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5508 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5511 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5512 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5513 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5514 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5515 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5517 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5518 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5519 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5520 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5521 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5522 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5523 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5524 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5525 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5527 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5528 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5529 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5530 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5531 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5532 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5535 o Minor features (bridge):
5536 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5537 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5538 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5539 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5542 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5543 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5546 o Minor features (geoip):
5547 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5550 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5551 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5552 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5553 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5554 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5556 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5557 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5558 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5560 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5561 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5562 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5563 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5564 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5565 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5567 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5568 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5569 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5572 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5573 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5574 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5575 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5576 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5579 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
5580 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5581 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5582 to another of the releases coming out today.
5584 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
5585 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
5586 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5588 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5589 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5590 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5591 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5592 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5593 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5594 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5595 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5596 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5597 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5598 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5600 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5601 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5602 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5603 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5604 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5605 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5606 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5609 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5610 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5611 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5612 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5613 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5615 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5616 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5617 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5618 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5619 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5620 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5621 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
5622 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
5623 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5625 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5626 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5627 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5628 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5629 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5630 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5633 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5634 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5635 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5636 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5637 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5638 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5640 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5641 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5642 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5643 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5644 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5647 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5648 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5651 o Minor features (geoip):
5652 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5655 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5656 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5657 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5658 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5659 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5661 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5662 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5663 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5665 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5666 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5667 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5668 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5669 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5670 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5672 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5673 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5674 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5675 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5676 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5678 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5679 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5680 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5683 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
5684 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5685 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5686 to another of the releases coming out today.
5688 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5689 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
5690 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
5691 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
5692 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
5693 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
5696 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5697 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5698 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5699 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5700 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5701 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5702 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5703 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5704 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
5705 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
5706 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
5708 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5709 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5710 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5711 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5712 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5713 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5714 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5717 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5718 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5719 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5720 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5721 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5723 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5724 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5725 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5726 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5727 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5728 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5730 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5731 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5732 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5733 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5734 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5737 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5738 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5741 o Minor features (geoip):
5742 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5745 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5746 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5747 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5748 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5749 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5750 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5752 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5753 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
5754 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
5755 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
5756 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5758 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
5759 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
5760 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5762 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
5763 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
5764 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
5765 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
5766 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
5767 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5769 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5770 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
5771 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
5772 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
5773 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5776 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5777 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5780 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
5781 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5782 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5783 to another of the releases coming out today.
5785 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
5786 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
5787 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5789 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5790 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5791 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5792 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5793 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5794 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5795 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5796 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5797 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5798 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5799 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5800 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5801 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5802 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5803 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5806 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5807 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
5808 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
5809 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
5810 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
5812 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5813 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
5814 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
5815 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
5816 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
5819 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5820 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5821 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5822 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5823 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5826 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5827 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
5830 o Minor features (geoip):
5831 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5834 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
5835 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5836 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5839 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
5840 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5841 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
5842 to another of the releases coming out today.
5844 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
5845 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
5846 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
5848 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5849 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
5850 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
5851 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
5852 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
5853 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
5854 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
5855 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
5856 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
5857 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
5858 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
5859 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
5860 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
5861 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
5862 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
5865 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5866 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
5867 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
5868 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
5869 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5870 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
5872 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
5873 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
5874 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
5875 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
5876 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
5879 o Minor features (geoip):
5880 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5884 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
5885 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
5886 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
5887 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
5888 since the 0.3.0.x series.
5890 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
5891 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
5894 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5895 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5896 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5897 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5898 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5899 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5900 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5901 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5902 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5903 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
5904 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
5907 o Minor features (directory authority):
5908 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
5909 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
5910 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
5911 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
5913 o Minor features (geoip):
5914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5917 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5918 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5919 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5921 o Minor features (logging):
5922 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
5923 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
5925 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
5926 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
5928 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5929 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
5930 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
5931 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
5932 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
5933 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
5934 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
5935 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
5937 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5938 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5939 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5942 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
5943 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
5944 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
5945 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5947 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
5948 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
5949 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5950 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
5951 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
5952 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
5953 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
5954 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
5955 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
5958 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5959 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
5960 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5961 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
5962 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
5963 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
5964 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
5967 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5968 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5969 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5970 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5971 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5973 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5974 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
5975 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
5976 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
5977 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5978 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
5979 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
5981 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
5982 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
5983 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5985 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5986 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
5987 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5988 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
5989 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
5990 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
5991 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
5992 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
5995 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
5996 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
5997 section. Closes ticket 24254.
6000 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
6001 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
6002 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
6003 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
6006 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
6007 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6008 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6009 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6010 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6011 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6014 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
6015 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
6016 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
6017 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
6018 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6020 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
6021 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
6022 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
6023 Closes ticket 23753.
6025 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
6026 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
6027 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
6028 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
6029 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
6031 o Minor features (testing):
6032 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
6033 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
6035 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
6036 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
6037 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
6038 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
6039 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6041 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
6042 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
6043 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
6044 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
6045 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
6048 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
6049 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
6050 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
6051 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
6052 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6054 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
6055 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
6056 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
6057 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6059 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6060 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
6061 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
6063 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
6064 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6065 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
6067 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6068 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
6069 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
6070 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6071 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
6072 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6074 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
6075 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
6076 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
6077 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
6078 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
6079 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
6080 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6081 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
6082 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
6083 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6084 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
6085 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6087 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
6088 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6089 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6090 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6091 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6093 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6094 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
6095 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6096 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
6097 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
6098 Closes ticket 24109.
6101 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
6102 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
6103 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
6104 directory authority, Bastet.
6106 o Directory authority changes:
6107 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6108 Closes ticket 23910.
6109 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6110 Closes ticket 23592.
6112 o Minor features (bridge):
6113 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
6114 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
6115 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
6116 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
6117 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
6118 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
6119 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
6121 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
6122 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
6123 Resolves ticket 23670.
6125 o Minor features (geoip):
6126 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6129 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
6130 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
6131 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
6132 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6135 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
6136 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6138 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
6139 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
6140 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
6141 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
6142 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
6143 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6145 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
6146 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
6147 only fetch the service descriptor once.
6148 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
6149 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
6150 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6152 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6153 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
6154 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
6155 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
6157 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
6158 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
6159 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6161 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
6162 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
6163 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
6164 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
6165 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
6168 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
6169 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6171 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6172 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
6173 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
6176 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6177 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
6178 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6179 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
6180 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6181 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
6182 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
6183 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
6185 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
6186 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
6187 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6188 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
6189 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
6192 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
6193 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
6194 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
6195 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
6196 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
6200 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
6201 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6202 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6204 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6205 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6206 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6208 o Directory authority changes:
6209 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6210 Closes ticket 23910.
6211 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6212 Closes ticket 23592.
6214 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6215 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6216 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6217 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6218 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6220 o Minor features (geoip):
6221 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6224 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6225 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6226 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6227 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6228 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6229 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6230 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6231 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6232 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6234 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6235 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6236 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6237 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
6238 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
6239 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
6240 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
6241 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
6242 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
6245 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
6246 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6247 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6248 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6250 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6251 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6252 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6254 o Directory authority changes:
6255 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6256 Closes ticket 23910.
6257 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6258 Closes ticket 23592.
6260 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6261 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6262 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6263 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6265 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6266 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6267 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6268 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6269 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6271 o Minor features (geoip):
6272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6276 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
6277 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6278 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6279 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6281 o Directory authority changes:
6282 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6283 Closes ticket 23910.
6284 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6285 Closes ticket 23592.
6287 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6288 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6289 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6290 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6292 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6293 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6294 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6295 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6296 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6298 o Minor features (geoip):
6299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6302 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6303 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6304 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6305 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6306 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6307 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6308 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6309 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6312 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6313 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6314 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6316 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6317 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6318 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6319 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6320 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6321 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6322 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6325 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
6326 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6327 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
6328 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6330 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
6331 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6332 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6334 o Directory authority changes:
6335 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6336 Closes ticket 23910.
6337 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6338 Closes ticket 23592.
6340 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6341 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6342 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6343 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6345 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6346 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6347 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6348 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6349 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6351 o Minor features (geoip):
6352 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6355 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6356 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
6357 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
6358 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
6359 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
6360 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
6361 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
6362 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
6365 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6366 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6367 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6368 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6370 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6371 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6372 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6374 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6375 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
6376 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
6377 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
6378 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
6379 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6380 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
6383 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
6384 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
6385 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
6386 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
6387 a new directory authority, Bastet.
6389 o Directory authority changes:
6390 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6391 Closes ticket 23910.
6392 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6393 Closes ticket 23592.
6395 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6396 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6397 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6398 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6400 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6401 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6402 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6403 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6404 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6406 o Minor features (geoip):
6407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6411 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
6412 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6413 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
6415 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6416 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
6417 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
6420 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6421 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
6422 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
6424 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6425 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6426 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6427 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6429 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
6430 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
6431 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6434 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
6435 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
6439 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
6440 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
6441 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
6442 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
6443 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
6444 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
6446 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
6447 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
6448 include better testing and logging.
6450 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
6453 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
6454 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
6455 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
6456 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6458 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
6459 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
6460 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
6461 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
6462 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
6463 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
6464 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6466 o Minor features (build, compilation):
6467 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
6468 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
6469 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
6470 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
6471 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
6472 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
6473 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
6474 Closes ticket 23643.
6476 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6477 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
6478 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
6479 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
6480 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
6482 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
6483 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
6484 the circuit identifier(s).
6485 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
6486 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
6488 o Minor features (logging):
6489 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
6490 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
6491 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
6492 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
6493 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
6495 o Minor features (relay):
6496 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
6497 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
6498 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
6499 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
6501 o Minor features (robustness):
6502 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
6503 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
6505 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
6506 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
6507 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
6508 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
6509 related to ticket 23080.
6511 o Minor features (testing):
6512 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
6513 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
6516 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
6517 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
6518 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
6520 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
6521 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
6524 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
6525 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
6526 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
6527 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
6528 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
6529 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
6530 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
6531 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
6532 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6534 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
6535 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
6536 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
6539 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6540 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
6541 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
6542 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6544 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
6545 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
6546 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
6547 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
6548 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6549 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
6550 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
6551 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
6554 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
6555 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
6556 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
6557 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6559 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
6560 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6561 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6562 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6563 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6564 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6566 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6567 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
6568 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
6569 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6570 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
6571 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
6572 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6573 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
6574 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6575 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
6576 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
6578 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
6579 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
6580 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
6581 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6582 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
6583 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6585 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6586 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
6587 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
6589 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
6590 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
6592 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
6593 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
6594 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6596 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6597 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
6598 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
6601 o Deprecated features:
6602 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
6603 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
6604 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
6607 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
6608 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6609 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
6610 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
6611 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
6612 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
6613 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
6614 Closes ticket 18736.
6617 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
6618 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
6619 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
6620 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
6621 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
6622 features and bugfixes here.
6624 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
6626 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
6627 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
6628 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
6629 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
6630 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
6631 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
6632 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
6633 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
6634 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
6635 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
6636 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
6637 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
6639 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
6640 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
6641 more information, see the design paper at
6642 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
6643 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
6644 Closes ticket 12541.
6646 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
6647 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
6648 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
6649 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
6650 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
6651 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
6654 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
6655 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
6657 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
6660 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
6663 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
6665 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
6667 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
6669 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
6670 they are 56 characters long, as in
6671 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
6673 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
6674 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
6675 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
6676 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
6677 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
6680 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
6681 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
6682 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
6683 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
6684 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
6685 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
6688 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
6689 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
6690 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
6691 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
6693 o Minor features (bug detection):
6694 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
6695 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
6696 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
6698 o Minor features (client):
6699 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
6700 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
6701 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
6702 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
6703 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
6704 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
6705 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
6706 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
6707 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
6708 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
6710 o Minor features (command line):
6711 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
6712 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
6713 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
6715 o Minor features (control port):
6716 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
6717 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
6718 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
6720 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
6721 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
6723 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
6724 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
6725 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
6726 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
6727 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
6728 Closes ticket 23237.
6729 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
6730 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
6732 o Minor features (development support):
6733 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
6734 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
6735 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
6736 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
6737 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
6738 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
6740 o Minor features (ed25519):
6741 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
6742 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
6743 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
6745 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
6746 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
6747 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
6749 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
6750 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
6751 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
6752 another program, regardless of the settings of
6753 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
6754 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
6755 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
6757 o Minor features (logging):
6758 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
6759 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
6760 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
6762 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
6763 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
6765 o Minor features (portability):
6766 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
6767 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
6768 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
6769 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
6771 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
6772 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
6773 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
6774 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
6775 results. Closes ticket 22731.
6777 o Minor features (startup, safety):
6778 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
6779 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
6782 o Minor features (static analysis):
6783 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
6784 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
6787 o Minor features (testing):
6788 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
6789 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
6790 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
6791 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
6792 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
6794 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
6795 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
6796 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
6797 Coverity as CID 1415728.
6799 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
6800 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
6801 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
6802 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
6803 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
6804 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
6805 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
6806 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6808 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6809 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
6810 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
6811 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
6812 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6813 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
6814 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
6815 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
6817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6818 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6819 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6821 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
6822 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
6823 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
6824 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
6826 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
6827 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
6828 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
6829 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
6830 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
6831 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
6833 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
6834 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
6837 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
6838 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
6839 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
6840 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
6843 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
6844 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
6845 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
6846 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
6847 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
6848 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
6851 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
6852 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
6853 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
6854 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6856 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
6857 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
6858 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6860 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6861 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
6862 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
6863 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6864 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
6865 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
6867 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
6868 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
6869 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
6871 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
6872 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
6873 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
6875 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
6876 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
6877 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
6878 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
6880 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6881 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
6882 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6884 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6885 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
6886 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
6887 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
6888 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6889 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6890 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6891 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6893 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6894 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
6895 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
6896 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6897 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
6898 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
6899 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6901 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
6902 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
6903 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
6904 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6906 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6907 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
6908 function from the general code to handle channel state
6909 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
6910 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
6911 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
6912 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
6913 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
6914 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
6915 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
6916 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
6918 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
6919 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
6921 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
6922 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
6923 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
6924 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
6925 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
6926 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
6927 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
6928 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
6929 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
6930 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
6931 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
6932 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
6934 o Deprecated features:
6935 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
6936 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
6937 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
6941 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
6942 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
6943 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
6944 Closes ticket 15645.
6945 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
6946 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
6947 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
6948 file. Closes ticket 21148.
6951 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
6952 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
6953 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
6954 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
6955 Closes ticket 21031.
6956 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
6957 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
6960 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
6961 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
6964 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
6965 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
6966 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
6967 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
6969 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6970 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
6971 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
6972 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
6974 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6975 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6976 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6977 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6978 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6981 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6985 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
6986 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
6989 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6990 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6991 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6992 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6993 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6994 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6995 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6996 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6997 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6999 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7000 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7001 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7002 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7003 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7004 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7005 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7006 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7007 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7010 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
7011 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
7014 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7015 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7016 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7017 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7019 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
7020 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
7021 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
7022 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
7023 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
7024 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
7025 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
7027 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
7028 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
7029 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
7030 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7032 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
7033 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
7034 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7036 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7037 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7038 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7039 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7041 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7042 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7043 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7044 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7045 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7047 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7048 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7049 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7050 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7052 o Minor features (geoip):
7053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7056 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7057 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7058 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7059 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7062 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
7063 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7064 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
7065 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7066 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
7067 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
7068 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7070 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7071 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
7072 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7075 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7076 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7079 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7080 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7081 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7082 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
7083 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7086 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7087 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7088 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7089 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7090 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7092 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7093 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7094 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7095 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7096 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7097 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7098 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7099 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7100 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7102 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7103 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7104 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7105 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7107 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7108 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7109 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7112 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7113 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7114 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7115 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7117 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
7118 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
7119 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
7122 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7123 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7124 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7125 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7126 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7128 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7129 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7130 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7131 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7132 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7133 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7134 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7135 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7136 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7139 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
7140 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
7143 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7144 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7145 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7146 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7148 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7149 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7150 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7151 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7154 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7157 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7158 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
7159 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7161 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7162 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7163 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7164 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
7165 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7168 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7169 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7170 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7173 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
7174 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
7176 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
7177 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
7178 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
7179 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
7182 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
7183 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
7185 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
7186 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
7187 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
7188 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
7189 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
7190 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
7191 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
7193 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
7194 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
7195 disabled. For more information, see
7196 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7198 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
7199 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
7200 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
7201 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
7202 with the 0.2.9 series.
7204 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
7205 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7207 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
7208 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
7209 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
7210 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
7211 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
7213 o Minor features (defensive programming):
7214 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
7215 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
7216 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
7219 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7220 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
7221 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
7222 attempt for bug 23105.
7224 o Minor features (geoip):
7225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7229 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
7230 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7232 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7233 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7234 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7235 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
7236 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7238 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7239 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
7240 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
7241 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7243 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7244 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
7245 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
7249 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
7250 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
7251 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
7252 Windows directory caches.
7254 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
7255 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
7256 will be nearly identical to it.
7258 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
7259 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
7260 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
7261 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
7262 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
7263 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7265 o Minor features (directory authority):
7266 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
7267 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
7268 Closes ticket 22348.
7270 o Minor features (geoip):
7271 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7274 o Minor features (testing):
7275 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
7278 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
7279 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
7280 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7282 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7283 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
7284 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
7285 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
7286 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
7287 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
7288 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
7289 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
7290 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
7291 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7293 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
7294 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
7295 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
7297 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
7298 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
7299 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
7300 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
7302 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7303 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
7304 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
7305 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
7306 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7308 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
7309 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
7310 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
7311 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
7312 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
7313 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
7315 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
7316 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
7317 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7318 with the clang static analyzer.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7321 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
7322 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
7323 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
7324 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
7327 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
7328 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7329 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7330 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7331 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7332 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7333 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7336 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
7337 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
7338 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
7339 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
7341 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7342 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7343 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7344 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7345 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7346 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7347 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7348 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7349 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7351 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7352 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7353 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7354 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7356 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7357 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7358 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7359 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7360 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7362 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7366 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7367 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7368 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7369 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7372 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
7373 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7374 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7375 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7376 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7377 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7378 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7381 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7382 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7383 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7386 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7387 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7388 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7389 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7390 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7391 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7393 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7394 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
7395 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
7396 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7398 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7399 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7400 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7402 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
7403 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7404 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7407 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
7408 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
7409 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
7410 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
7411 next version will be a release candidate.
7413 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
7414 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
7415 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
7416 one of those versions should upgrade.
7418 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
7419 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7420 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7421 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7422 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7423 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7424 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7425 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7426 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7428 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
7429 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7430 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7431 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7432 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7434 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
7435 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
7436 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
7437 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
7438 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
7439 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7441 o Minor features (bridge authority):
7442 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
7443 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
7445 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
7446 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
7447 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
7448 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
7449 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
7452 o Minor features (geoip):
7453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7456 o Minor features (relay, performance):
7457 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
7458 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
7459 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
7460 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
7461 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
7464 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
7465 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
7466 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
7467 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
7468 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
7470 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
7471 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
7472 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
7473 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
7474 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7476 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
7477 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
7478 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7479 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
7480 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7481 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
7482 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
7483 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7484 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
7485 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
7486 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
7489 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
7490 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7491 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7492 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7493 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7494 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7496 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7497 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7498 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7499 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7500 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7501 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7502 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7503 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7506 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
7507 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
7508 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
7511 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
7512 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7513 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7514 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7516 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7517 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7518 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7520 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7521 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
7522 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
7523 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
7525 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7526 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
7527 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
7528 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
7529 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7530 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
7531 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7534 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
7535 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
7536 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
7537 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
7538 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
7541 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
7542 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
7546 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
7547 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
7548 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
7549 close ticket 22623.)
7551 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
7552 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
7553 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
7554 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
7555 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
7556 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
7558 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
7559 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
7560 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
7561 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7563 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
7564 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
7565 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
7566 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
7567 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7569 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
7570 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
7571 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
7572 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7574 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
7575 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
7576 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
7577 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
7579 o Minor features (geoip):
7580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7583 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7584 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
7585 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
7587 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
7588 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7589 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
7590 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
7591 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
7592 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
7594 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
7595 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
7597 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
7598 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
7599 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
7600 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
7601 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7603 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
7604 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
7605 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
7606 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
7607 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7608 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7609 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7610 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7611 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7612 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7613 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7614 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7616 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7617 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7618 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7619 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7620 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7621 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
7622 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
7623 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
7624 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7626 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7627 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
7628 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
7629 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
7630 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
7631 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
7632 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7633 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
7634 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
7635 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
7636 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7637 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
7638 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
7639 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
7640 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
7641 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7643 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
7644 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
7645 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
7646 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
7647 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
7648 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
7649 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
7653 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
7655 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
7656 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
7658 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
7659 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
7660 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
7664 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
7665 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
7666 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
7667 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
7668 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
7671 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
7674 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7675 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
7676 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
7677 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
7678 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
7679 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
7681 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7682 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
7683 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
7684 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7686 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7687 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
7688 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
7689 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7691 o Minor features (geoip):
7692 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7695 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7696 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7697 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7698 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7699 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7701 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7702 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7703 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7704 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7705 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7707 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7708 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7709 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7710 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7711 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7712 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7713 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7714 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7715 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7718 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
7719 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
7720 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7721 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7722 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
7724 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
7725 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7726 bugfixes described below.
7728 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7729 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
7730 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
7731 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7732 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7733 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7734 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7737 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
7738 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7739 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7740 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7741 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7742 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7743 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7746 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
7747 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
7748 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
7749 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
7750 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
7751 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
7752 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
7753 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7754 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
7755 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
7756 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
7757 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
7758 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
7761 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
7762 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
7763 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
7765 o Minor features (code style):
7766 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7767 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7768 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7770 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7771 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
7772 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
7773 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
7774 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
7776 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7777 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7778 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7780 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
7781 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
7782 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7784 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
7785 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7786 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7787 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7788 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7789 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7790 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7792 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
7793 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
7794 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
7795 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
7796 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7798 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7799 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
7800 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
7804 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
7807 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
7808 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
7809 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7810 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7811 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
7813 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
7814 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7815 bugfixes described below.
7817 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7818 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7819 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
7820 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
7821 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7822 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7823 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7824 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7827 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7828 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7829 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7830 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7831 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7832 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7833 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7836 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7837 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
7838 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
7839 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
7840 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
7841 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
7842 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
7843 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7844 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
7845 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
7846 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
7847 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
7848 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
7851 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7852 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
7853 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
7856 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7857 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7858 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7859 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7860 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7862 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7863 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
7864 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7866 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7867 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7868 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7870 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7871 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
7872 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
7873 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
7874 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
7875 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
7876 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7878 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
7880 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7881 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7882 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7885 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
7886 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7887 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7888 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7889 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7890 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7892 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
7893 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
7894 bugfixes described below.
7896 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
7897 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7898 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7899 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7900 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7903 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7904 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
7905 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
7906 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
7907 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
7908 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
7909 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
7912 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7913 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7914 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7915 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7916 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7918 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7919 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
7920 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
7921 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
7922 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
7923 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
7924 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
7926 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
7927 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
7928 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
7929 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
7930 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
7932 o Minor features (geoip):
7933 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7936 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
7937 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
7938 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
7939 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7941 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7942 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7943 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7945 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
7946 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
7947 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
7948 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
7949 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
7952 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
7953 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
7954 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
7955 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
7956 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7958 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
7959 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7960 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7961 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7962 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7963 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7965 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7966 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7967 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7968 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7971 o Minor features (geoip):
7972 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7975 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7976 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
7977 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
7978 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
7979 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
7981 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7982 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
7983 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7985 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
7986 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
7987 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
7988 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
7989 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
7990 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
7992 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
7993 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
7994 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
7995 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
7998 o Minor features (geoip):
7999 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8002 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8003 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8004 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8007 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
8008 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8009 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8010 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8011 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8012 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8014 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8015 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8016 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8017 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8020 o Minor features (geoip):
8021 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8024 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8025 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8026 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8028 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
8029 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8030 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8031 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8032 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8033 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8035 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8036 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8037 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8038 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8041 o Minor features (geoip):
8042 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8045 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8046 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8047 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8049 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
8050 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8051 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8052 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8053 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8054 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8056 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8057 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8058 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8059 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8062 o Minor features (geoip):
8063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8066 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8067 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8068 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8071 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
8072 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
8073 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
8074 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
8076 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
8077 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
8078 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
8079 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
8080 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8082 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8083 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
8084 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
8087 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
8088 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8089 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8090 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8093 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
8094 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
8095 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
8096 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
8097 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
8100 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
8101 security, correctness, and performance.
8103 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
8105 o Major features (directory protocol):
8106 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
8107 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
8108 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
8109 now request these documents when available. When both client and
8110 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
8111 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
8112 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
8113 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
8114 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
8115 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
8116 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
8117 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
8118 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
8119 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
8120 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
8121 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
8122 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
8124 o Major features (experimental):
8125 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
8126 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
8127 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
8128 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
8129 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
8130 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
8131 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
8133 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
8134 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
8135 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
8136 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
8137 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
8138 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
8141 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
8142 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
8143 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
8144 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
8145 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
8146 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
8147 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
8148 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
8149 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
8150 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
8153 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
8154 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
8155 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
8156 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
8157 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
8158 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
8159 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
8160 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
8161 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8162 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
8163 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
8164 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
8165 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
8166 Otherwise it is at info.
8168 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8169 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
8170 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
8171 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8173 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
8174 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8175 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8176 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8178 o Minor features (security, windows):
8179 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
8180 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
8181 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
8182 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
8183 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
8185 o Minor features (config options):
8186 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
8187 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
8188 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
8189 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
8190 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
8191 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
8192 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
8193 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
8195 o Minor features (controller):
8196 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
8197 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
8199 o Minor features (defaults):
8200 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
8201 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
8202 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
8203 can. Closes ticket 21407.
8204 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
8205 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
8206 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
8207 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
8208 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
8209 Closes ticket 21641.
8211 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8212 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
8213 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
8214 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8215 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8216 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8217 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8219 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
8220 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
8221 introduction points than specified in
8222 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
8223 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
8224 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
8225 21594; closes ticket 21622.
8226 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
8227 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
8228 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
8229 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
8231 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8232 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
8233 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
8234 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
8235 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
8236 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
8237 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
8238 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
8239 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
8240 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
8242 o Minor features (logging):
8243 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
8244 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
8245 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
8246 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
8249 o Minor features (performance):
8250 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
8251 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
8253 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
8254 speed some controller functions.
8256 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
8257 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
8258 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
8259 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
8261 o Minor features (safety):
8262 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
8263 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
8264 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
8267 o Minor features (testing):
8268 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
8269 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
8270 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
8271 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
8272 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
8273 on. Closes ticket 21439.
8274 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
8275 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
8276 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
8277 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
8278 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
8279 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
8280 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
8281 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
8282 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
8283 21507. Partially implements 21470.
8285 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
8286 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8287 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8288 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8290 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
8291 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
8292 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
8293 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
8296 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8297 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
8298 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8300 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
8301 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
8302 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
8303 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
8304 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
8305 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
8306 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8307 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
8308 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
8309 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
8310 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
8311 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
8312 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
8313 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
8315 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8316 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
8317 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8318 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
8319 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
8320 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
8321 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
8322 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8324 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8325 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
8326 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
8327 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8328 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
8329 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
8330 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8332 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
8333 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
8334 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
8335 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
8336 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
8338 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8339 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
8340 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8341 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
8342 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
8343 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8344 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
8345 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8346 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
8347 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
8348 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8350 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8351 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
8352 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
8353 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8354 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
8355 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
8356 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8358 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8359 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
8360 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8362 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
8363 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
8364 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
8365 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
8366 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8368 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8369 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
8370 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
8371 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8372 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
8373 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8374 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
8375 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
8376 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
8377 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
8379 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
8380 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8381 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8382 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8383 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8385 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
8386 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
8387 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8389 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8390 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
8391 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
8392 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
8393 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
8394 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
8395 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
8396 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
8397 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
8398 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
8399 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
8400 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
8402 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
8403 Resolves ticket 22213.
8404 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
8405 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
8406 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
8407 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
8408 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
8409 types. Closes ticket 21651.
8410 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
8411 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
8414 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
8415 Closes ticket 21873.
8416 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
8417 Closes ticket 21151.
8418 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
8419 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
8421 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
8422 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8423 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
8424 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
8426 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
8427 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
8428 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
8429 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
8430 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
8431 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
8432 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
8433 default behavior is now unavailable.
8434 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
8435 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
8436 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
8437 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
8438 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
8439 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
8440 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
8442 o Removed features (tools):
8443 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
8444 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
8445 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
8446 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
8447 required. Closes ticket 21842.
8450 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
8451 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
8452 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
8453 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
8454 clients are not affected.
8456 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
8457 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
8458 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
8459 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
8460 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
8461 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8467 o Minor features (future-proofing):
8468 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
8469 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
8470 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
8471 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
8472 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
8473 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
8475 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8476 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
8477 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
8478 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
8479 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
8483 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
8484 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
8486 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
8487 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
8488 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
8489 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
8490 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
8491 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
8494 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
8495 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
8497 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
8498 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
8499 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
8500 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
8501 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
8503 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
8504 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8506 o Minor features (geoip):
8507 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8510 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8511 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
8512 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
8513 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8515 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
8516 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
8517 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
8518 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8521 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
8522 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
8523 0.3.0 release series.
8525 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
8526 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
8527 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
8530 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
8531 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
8532 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
8533 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8535 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
8536 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
8537 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
8538 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8539 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
8541 o Minor features (geoip):
8542 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8545 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
8546 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
8547 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
8548 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
8551 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8552 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
8553 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
8554 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8555 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
8556 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
8557 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
8558 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8560 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8561 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
8562 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8564 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8565 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
8566 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
8569 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8570 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
8571 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
8572 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
8573 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8576 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
8577 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
8578 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
8582 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
8583 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
8584 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
8585 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8586 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
8589 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8590 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
8591 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8593 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8594 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8595 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8596 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8597 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8598 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8599 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8601 o Minor features (geoip):
8602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8606 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
8607 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8608 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
8609 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8612 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8613 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8614 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8616 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8617 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8619 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8620 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8621 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8623 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8624 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8625 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8628 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8629 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8630 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8631 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8632 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8633 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8634 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8635 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8636 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8638 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8639 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8640 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8641 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8642 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8643 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8644 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8645 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8646 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8647 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8648 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8649 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8650 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8652 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8653 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8654 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8655 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8656 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8658 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8659 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8660 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8662 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8663 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8664 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8665 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8666 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8667 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8668 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8671 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8672 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8673 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8674 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8675 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8676 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8677 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8679 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8680 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8681 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8682 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8685 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8686 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8687 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8688 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8690 o Minor features (geoip):
8691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8695 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
8696 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8697 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
8698 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8701 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
8702 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8703 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8705 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8706 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8708 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8709 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8710 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8712 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8713 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8714 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8717 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8718 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8719 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8720 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8721 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8722 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8723 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8724 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8725 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8727 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8728 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8729 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8730 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8731 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8732 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8733 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8734 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8735 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8737 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8738 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8739 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8740 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8741 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8743 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8744 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8745 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8746 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8747 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8750 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8751 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8752 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8753 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8754 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8756 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8757 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8758 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8760 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8761 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8762 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8763 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8764 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8765 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8768 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8769 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8770 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8771 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8772 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8773 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8774 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8777 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8778 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8779 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8780 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8781 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8782 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8783 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8785 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8786 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8787 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8788 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8791 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8792 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8793 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8794 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8796 o Minor features (geoip):
8797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8800 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8801 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8802 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8805 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
8806 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8807 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
8808 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8811 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
8812 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
8813 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8815 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8816 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8818 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8819 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8820 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8822 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8823 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8824 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8827 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8828 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8829 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8830 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8831 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8832 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8833 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8834 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8835 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8837 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8838 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8839 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8840 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8841 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8842 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8843 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8844 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8845 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8847 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8848 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8849 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8850 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8851 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8853 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8854 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8855 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8856 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8857 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8860 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8861 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8862 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8863 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8864 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8866 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8867 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8868 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8870 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8871 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8872 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8873 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8874 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8875 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8878 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8879 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8880 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8881 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8882 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8883 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8884 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8887 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
8888 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
8889 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
8890 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
8891 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
8892 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
8893 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
8895 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8896 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
8897 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
8898 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
8901 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8902 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
8903 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
8904 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
8906 o Minor features (geoip):
8907 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8910 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8911 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
8912 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
8914 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
8915 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
8916 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
8917 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
8918 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
8919 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
8921 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
8922 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
8923 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
8927 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
8928 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
8929 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
8930 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
8933 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
8934 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
8935 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
8937 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
8938 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8940 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
8941 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8942 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8944 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
8945 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
8946 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
8949 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
8950 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
8951 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
8952 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
8953 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
8954 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
8955 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
8956 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
8957 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
8959 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
8960 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
8961 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
8962 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
8963 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
8964 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
8965 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
8966 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
8967 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
8969 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
8970 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
8971 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
8972 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
8973 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
8976 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8977 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
8978 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
8979 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
8980 Reported by Guido Vranken.
8982 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
8983 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
8984 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8986 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
8987 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
8988 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
8989 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
8990 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
8991 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
8994 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
8995 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8996 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8997 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8998 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8999 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9000 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9003 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9004 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9005 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9006 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9007 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9008 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9009 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9011 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9012 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9013 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9014 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9017 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9018 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9019 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9020 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9022 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9023 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
9024 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
9025 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
9027 o Minor features (geoip):
9028 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9031 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9032 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9033 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9035 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9036 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9037 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9041 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
9042 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
9043 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
9044 keep them from coming back.
9046 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
9047 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
9048 will be nearly identical to it.
9050 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
9051 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
9052 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
9053 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
9054 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
9055 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9057 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
9058 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
9059 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9061 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
9062 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
9063 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
9064 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
9065 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
9066 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
9067 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
9068 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
9069 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
9070 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9071 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9072 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9073 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9074 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9075 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9077 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
9078 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
9079 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
9081 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9082 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
9083 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
9085 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
9086 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
9087 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9088 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
9089 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
9090 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
9091 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
9093 o Minor features (geoip):
9094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9097 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
9098 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
9099 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
9102 o Minor features (testing):
9103 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
9104 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
9105 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
9107 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
9108 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
9109 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
9111 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9112 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
9113 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
9114 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
9115 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
9116 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9118 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9119 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
9120 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
9121 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9122 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
9123 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
9124 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
9127 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9128 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
9129 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
9130 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9131 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
9132 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
9133 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9135 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9136 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
9137 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
9138 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
9139 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
9140 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9142 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9143 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
9144 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
9146 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
9147 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9148 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
9149 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
9150 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9153 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
9156 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
9157 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
9158 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
9159 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
9161 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
9162 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
9163 least January of 2020.
9165 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9166 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
9167 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
9168 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
9171 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9172 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
9173 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
9174 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
9175 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
9176 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
9177 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9179 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9180 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9181 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9182 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9183 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9184 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9185 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9187 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9188 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
9189 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
9191 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
9192 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
9193 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9195 o Minor features (geoip):
9196 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9199 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9200 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
9201 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
9203 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
9204 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
9206 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9207 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
9208 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
9210 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9211 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
9212 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
9213 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9214 Patch by "junglefowl".
9217 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
9218 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
9219 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
9220 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
9221 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
9222 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
9224 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
9225 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
9226 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
9229 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9230 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
9231 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
9232 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
9234 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
9235 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
9236 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
9237 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
9238 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9240 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
9241 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
9242 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
9243 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
9244 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9246 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
9247 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
9248 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
9249 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
9250 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
9251 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
9252 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9254 o Minor feature (client):
9255 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
9256 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
9258 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
9259 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
9260 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
9261 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
9263 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
9264 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
9265 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
9266 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
9267 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
9269 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
9270 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
9271 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
9272 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
9273 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
9274 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
9275 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
9276 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
9277 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
9278 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
9280 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
9281 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
9282 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
9284 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
9285 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
9287 o Minor features (relay):
9288 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
9289 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
9290 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
9291 Written by Michael Sonntag.
9293 o Minor bugfix (logging):
9294 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
9295 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
9296 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
9297 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
9300 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9301 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
9302 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
9303 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9305 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
9306 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
9307 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
9309 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
9310 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9311 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
9312 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
9313 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9314 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
9315 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
9317 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
9318 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
9319 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
9320 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
9321 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
9322 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
9323 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
9326 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9327 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
9328 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9330 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9331 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
9332 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
9333 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
9334 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9335 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
9336 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
9337 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
9339 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
9340 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
9341 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9344 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
9345 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
9346 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
9348 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
9349 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
9350 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
9351 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9353 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
9354 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
9355 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
9356 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9357 Patch by "junglefowl".
9359 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
9360 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
9361 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
9365 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
9366 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
9367 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
9368 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
9369 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
9370 version should upgrade.
9372 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
9373 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
9374 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
9375 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
9376 the set of fallback directories, and more.
9378 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
9379 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
9380 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
9381 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
9382 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
9383 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
9386 o Major features (security):
9387 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
9388 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
9389 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
9390 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
9391 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
9392 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
9394 o Major features (directory authority, security):
9395 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
9396 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
9397 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
9399 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
9400 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
9401 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
9402 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
9403 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
9406 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
9407 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
9408 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
9409 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
9410 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
9411 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
9412 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
9413 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
9414 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
9415 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
9416 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9418 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
9419 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
9420 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9422 o Minor features (controller):
9423 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
9424 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
9426 o Minor features (entry guards):
9427 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
9428 break regression tests.
9429 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
9430 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
9432 o Minor features (fallback directories):
9433 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
9435 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
9436 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
9437 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
9438 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
9439 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
9440 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
9441 Closes ticket 20539.
9442 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
9444 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
9445 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
9446 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
9447 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
9448 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
9450 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
9451 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
9452 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
9453 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
9454 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
9455 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
9456 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
9457 Closes ticket 20822.
9458 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
9459 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
9461 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
9462 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9465 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
9466 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
9467 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
9468 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
9470 o Minor features (linting):
9471 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
9472 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
9474 o Minor features (logging):
9475 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
9476 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
9478 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
9479 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
9480 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
9481 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
9482 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
9483 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
9486 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
9487 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
9488 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
9490 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9491 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
9492 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
9495 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
9496 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
9497 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
9498 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9500 o Minor bugfixes (config):
9501 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
9502 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
9503 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
9504 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9506 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9507 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
9508 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
9511 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
9512 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
9513 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
9514 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
9515 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9517 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9518 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
9519 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
9521 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9522 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
9523 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9524 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
9525 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
9526 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
9527 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9528 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
9529 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9531 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
9532 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
9533 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
9534 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9536 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9537 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
9538 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
9539 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9540 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
9541 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9543 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9544 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
9545 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9546 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
9547 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
9548 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
9549 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
9550 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
9552 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9553 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
9554 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9556 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
9557 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
9558 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
9559 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
9561 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
9562 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9564 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9565 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
9566 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
9567 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
9568 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
9570 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9571 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
9572 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9574 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9575 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
9576 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
9577 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
9578 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9580 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9581 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
9582 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
9584 o Documentation (formatting):
9585 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
9586 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
9588 o Documentation (man page):
9589 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
9590 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
9593 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
9594 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
9595 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
9596 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
9597 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
9598 version should upgrade.
9600 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
9601 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
9603 o Major bugfixes (security):
9604 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
9605 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
9606 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
9607 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
9608 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
9609 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9611 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
9612 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
9613 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
9614 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
9615 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
9616 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
9617 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
9618 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
9619 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
9620 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
9621 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9623 o Minor features (geoip):
9624 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9627 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9628 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
9629 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
9630 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
9632 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
9633 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9636 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
9637 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
9638 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
9639 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
9640 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
9641 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
9642 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
9643 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
9645 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
9647 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
9648 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
9649 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
9650 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
9651 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
9654 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
9655 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
9656 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
9657 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
9658 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
9659 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
9660 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
9661 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
9664 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
9665 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
9666 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
9667 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
9668 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
9670 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
9671 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
9672 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
9673 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
9674 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
9675 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
9676 15056; part of proposal 220.
9677 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
9678 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
9679 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
9680 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
9681 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
9683 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
9684 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
9685 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
9686 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
9687 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9689 o Minor features (controller):
9690 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
9691 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
9694 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
9695 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
9696 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
9699 o Minor features (directory authority):
9700 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
9701 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
9702 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
9703 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
9704 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
9706 o Minor features (directory cache):
9707 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
9708 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
9711 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
9712 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
9713 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
9714 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
9716 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
9717 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
9718 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
9719 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
9721 o Minor features (infrastructure):
9722 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
9723 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
9725 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9726 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
9727 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
9728 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
9730 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9731 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
9732 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9733 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
9734 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
9735 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
9737 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
9738 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
9739 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
9740 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
9741 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
9744 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
9745 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
9746 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
9747 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9749 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
9750 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
9751 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
9752 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
9753 on all recent tor versions.
9754 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
9755 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
9756 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
9757 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9759 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
9760 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
9761 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9763 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9764 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
9765 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
9766 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
9769 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
9770 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
9771 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
9774 o Minor bugfixes (util):
9775 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
9776 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
9777 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
9778 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
9780 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9781 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
9782 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
9783 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
9785 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9786 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
9787 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
9788 Closes ticket 19858.
9789 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
9790 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
9791 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
9792 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
9793 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
9794 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
9795 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
9796 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
9797 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
9798 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
9799 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
9800 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
9801 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
9802 redundant with the similar structures used in the
9803 channel abstraction.
9804 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
9805 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
9806 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
9807 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
9808 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
9809 replaced with code automatically generated by the
9813 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
9814 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9815 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
9816 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
9818 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
9819 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
9821 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
9822 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
9823 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
9824 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
9825 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
9829 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
9830 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
9831 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
9833 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
9834 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
9835 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
9838 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
9839 from "overcaffeinated".
9840 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
9841 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
9842 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
9843 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
9844 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
9848 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
9849 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
9850 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
9851 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
9852 become available for their systems.
9854 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
9857 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
9858 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
9860 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
9861 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9862 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9863 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9864 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9865 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9866 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9867 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9868 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9870 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
9871 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
9872 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
9873 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
9874 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
9876 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
9877 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9881 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
9882 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
9884 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
9885 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
9886 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
9887 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
9888 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
9889 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
9890 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
9891 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
9893 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
9895 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
9896 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
9897 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
9898 become available for their systems.
9900 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
9901 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9903 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
9904 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9905 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9906 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9907 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9908 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9909 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9910 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9911 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9913 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9914 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
9915 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
9916 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
9917 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
9920 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
9921 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
9922 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
9925 o Minor features (geoip):
9926 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9929 o Minor bugfix (build):
9930 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
9931 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
9932 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9934 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9935 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
9936 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
9937 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9939 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
9940 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
9941 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
9943 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9944 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
9945 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
9948 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9949 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
9950 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9951 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
9952 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
9953 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
9955 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9956 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
9957 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
9958 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9960 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9961 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
9962 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9964 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9965 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
9966 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
9967 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
9968 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
9969 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
9970 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9971 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
9972 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
9973 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9976 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
9977 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
9978 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
9979 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
9982 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9983 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
9984 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
9985 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
9986 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
9987 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
9990 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
9991 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
9992 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
9995 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
9996 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
9997 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
9998 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
10000 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10001 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
10002 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
10003 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10006 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10007 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
10008 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
10009 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10012 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
10013 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
10014 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
10017 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10018 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
10019 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10021 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10022 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
10023 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10025 o Minor features (geoip):
10026 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10029 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
10030 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
10031 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
10032 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
10033 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
10035 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
10036 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
10037 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
10038 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
10039 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
10040 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10042 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
10043 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
10044 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10046 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10047 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
10048 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
10049 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
10050 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
10051 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
10053 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10054 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
10055 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
10057 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
10058 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
10060 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10061 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
10062 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
10063 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
10064 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
10065 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
10067 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10068 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
10069 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
10073 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
10074 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
10077 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
10078 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
10079 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
10080 everyone to test this release.
10082 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
10083 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
10084 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
10085 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10088 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
10089 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
10090 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
10091 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10094 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
10095 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
10096 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
10097 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
10098 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10099 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
10100 download, stop waiting for certificates.
10101 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
10102 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
10103 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
10105 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
10106 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
10107 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
10108 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10109 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
10110 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10111 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
10112 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
10113 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10114 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
10115 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
10116 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
10118 o Minor features (geoip):
10119 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10122 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
10123 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
10124 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
10125 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
10126 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
10127 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10129 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
10130 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
10131 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
10132 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10133 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
10134 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10137 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
10138 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
10139 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
10142 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10143 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
10144 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
10145 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
10146 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
10147 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10148 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
10149 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10151 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
10152 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
10153 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10155 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10156 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
10157 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10158 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
10159 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10160 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
10161 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
10162 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10164 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
10165 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
10166 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
10169 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10170 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
10171 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10174 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
10175 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10176 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
10177 tickets 19287 and 19290.
10180 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
10181 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
10182 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
10183 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
10184 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
10187 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
10188 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10189 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10190 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10191 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10192 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10193 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10194 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10195 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10197 o Minor features (geoip):
10198 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10202 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
10203 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
10204 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
10205 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10206 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
10209 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
10210 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
10211 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
10212 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
10213 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
10214 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
10215 be a release candidate.
10217 o Major features (security fixes):
10218 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10219 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10220 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10221 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10222 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10223 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10224 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10225 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10227 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
10228 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
10229 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
10230 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
10231 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
10232 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
10233 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
10234 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
10235 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
10236 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
10237 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
10238 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
10239 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
10240 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
10243 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
10244 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
10245 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
10247 o Minor features (client, directory):
10248 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
10249 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
10250 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
10253 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
10254 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
10257 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
10258 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
10259 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
10262 o Minor features (geoip):
10263 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10266 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
10267 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
10268 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
10269 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
10270 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
10272 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
10273 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
10274 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
10275 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
10278 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
10279 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
10280 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
10281 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
10282 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
10284 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
10285 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
10286 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
10289 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
10290 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
10291 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
10292 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
10294 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10295 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
10296 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
10297 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
10299 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
10300 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
10301 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
10302 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
10305 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10306 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
10307 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
10311 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
10312 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
10314 o Required libraries:
10315 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
10316 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
10317 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
10320 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
10321 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
10322 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
10323 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
10324 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
10325 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
10326 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
10327 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
10329 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
10330 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
10331 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
10332 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
10333 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
10334 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10336 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
10337 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
10338 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
10339 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
10340 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
10343 o Major features (circuit building, security):
10344 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
10345 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
10346 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
10348 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
10349 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
10351 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
10352 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
10353 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
10354 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
10355 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
10356 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
10357 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
10358 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
10359 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
10360 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
10361 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
10363 o Major features (resource management):
10364 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
10365 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
10366 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
10367 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
10368 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
10369 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
10371 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
10372 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
10373 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
10374 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
10376 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
10377 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
10378 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
10379 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10381 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10382 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
10383 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
10384 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
10385 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
10386 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
10388 o Minor features (security, TLS):
10389 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
10390 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
10391 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
10392 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
10394 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
10395 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
10396 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
10397 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
10399 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
10400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10403 o Minor feature (port flags):
10404 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
10405 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
10406 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
10407 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
10408 18693; patch by "teor".
10410 o Minor features (directory authority):
10411 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
10412 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
10413 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
10415 o Minor features (testing):
10416 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
10417 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
10418 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
10419 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
10421 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
10422 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
10423 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
10424 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
10425 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
10426 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
10427 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
10428 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
10429 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
10431 o Minor features (Tor2web):
10432 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
10433 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
10434 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
10436 o Minor features (unit tests):
10437 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
10438 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
10439 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
10440 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
10441 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
10442 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
10443 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
10444 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
10446 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
10447 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
10448 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
10449 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
10450 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
10451 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
10452 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
10453 assertion as a test failure.
10455 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
10456 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
10457 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
10458 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
10459 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
10460 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
10462 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
10463 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
10464 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
10465 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
10466 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
10467 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
10468 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
10469 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
10470 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
10471 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
10472 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10473 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10474 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
10475 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
10476 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
10477 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10479 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10480 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
10481 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
10482 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
10483 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10484 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
10485 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
10488 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10489 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
10490 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
10491 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
10492 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
10493 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
10494 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
10497 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10498 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
10499 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
10500 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
10503 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
10504 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
10506 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10507 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
10508 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
10509 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
10510 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
10511 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10513 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10514 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
10515 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
10516 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
10518 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
10519 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
10520 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
10522 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
10523 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
10524 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
10525 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
10526 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
10527 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
10529 o Minor bugfixes (options):
10530 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
10531 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
10533 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
10534 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
10535 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10538 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
10539 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
10540 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
10541 19678. Patch by teor.
10543 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10544 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
10545 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
10546 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
10547 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
10548 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
10550 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
10551 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
10555 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
10556 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
10557 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
10558 who select public relays as their bridges.
10560 o Major bugfixes (crash):
10561 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
10562 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
10563 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
10564 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
10565 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10567 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
10568 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
10569 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
10570 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
10571 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
10574 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
10575 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
10576 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
10577 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
10579 o Minor features (geoip):
10580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10584 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
10585 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
10586 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
10587 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
10588 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
10589 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10591 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
10592 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10593 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10595 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
10596 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
10597 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
10598 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
10599 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
10600 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10602 o Major features (user interface):
10603 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
10604 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
10605 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
10607 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
10608 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
10609 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
10610 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10612 o Minor features (config):
10613 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
10614 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
10616 o Minor features (geoip):
10617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10620 o Minor features (user interface):
10621 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
10622 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
10625 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10626 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
10627 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
10629 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10630 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
10631 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
10633 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
10634 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
10635 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
10636 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10638 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
10639 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
10640 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
10643 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
10644 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
10645 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
10646 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
10648 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10649 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
10650 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10652 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10653 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
10654 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10656 o Deprecated features:
10657 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
10658 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
10659 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
10660 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
10661 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
10662 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
10663 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
10664 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
10665 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
10666 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
10667 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10668 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
10669 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
10670 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
10671 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
10672 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
10673 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
10674 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
10675 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
10676 and TransListenAddress.
10679 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
10680 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
10683 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
10684 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
10687 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
10688 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
10689 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
10690 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
10691 encouraged to upgrade.
10693 o Directory authority changes:
10694 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10695 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
10697 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
10698 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
10699 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
10700 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
10701 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
10702 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10704 o Minor features (geoip):
10705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10709 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
10710 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
10713 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10714 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
10715 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
10716 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
10719 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
10720 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
10721 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
10722 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
10723 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
10724 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
10725 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
10726 security, correctness, and performance.
10728 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
10730 o New system requirements:
10731 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
10732 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
10733 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
10734 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
10735 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
10736 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
10737 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
10738 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
10740 o Major features (build, hardening):
10741 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
10742 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
10743 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
10744 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
10745 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
10746 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
10747 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
10748 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
10749 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
10751 o Major features (compilation):
10752 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
10753 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
10754 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
10755 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
10757 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
10758 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
10759 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
10761 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
10762 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
10763 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
10764 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
10765 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
10766 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
10767 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
10768 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
10770 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
10771 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
10772 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
10773 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
10774 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
10775 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
10776 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
10778 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
10779 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
10780 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
10781 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
10782 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
10783 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
10784 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
10786 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
10787 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
10788 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
10789 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
10790 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
10792 o Minor features (build, hardening):
10793 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
10794 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
10795 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
10796 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
10797 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
10798 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
10799 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
10800 Closes ticket 18895.
10802 o Minor features (code safety):
10803 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
10804 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
10807 o Minor features (controller):
10808 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
10809 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
10810 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
10811 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
10812 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
10813 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
10814 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
10815 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
10817 o Minor features (directory authority):
10818 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
10819 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
10820 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
10821 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
10822 Implements ticket 18624.
10823 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
10824 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
10825 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
10828 o Minor features (hidden service):
10829 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
10830 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
10831 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
10834 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
10835 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
10836 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
10837 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
10838 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
10839 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
10840 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
10841 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
10842 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
10843 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
10844 Closes ticket 18365.
10846 o Minor features (logging):
10847 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
10848 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
10849 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
10850 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
10851 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
10852 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
10853 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
10854 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
10855 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
10856 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
10858 o Minor features (performance):
10859 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
10860 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
10861 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
10862 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
10863 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
10864 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
10865 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
10867 o Minor features (relay, usability):
10868 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
10869 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
10870 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
10871 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
10874 o Minor features (testing):
10875 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
10876 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10877 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
10878 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
10879 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
10880 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
10881 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
10882 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
10885 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10886 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
10887 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
10888 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
10889 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10891 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10892 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
10893 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
10894 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
10895 patch from "cypherpunks".
10897 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
10898 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
10899 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10902 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
10903 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
10904 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10906 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10907 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
10908 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
10909 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10910 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
10911 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
10912 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
10913 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10915 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10916 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
10917 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
10918 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
10919 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
10920 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
10921 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
10923 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
10924 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
10925 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
10928 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
10929 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
10930 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
10932 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
10933 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
10934 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
10937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
10938 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
10939 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
10940 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
10943 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10944 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
10945 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
10947 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10948 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
10949 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
10952 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10953 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
10954 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
10955 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
10956 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
10957 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
10958 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10959 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
10960 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
10963 o Minor bugfixes (time):
10964 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
10965 bugfix on all released tor versions.
10966 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
10967 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
10968 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
10969 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10971 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
10972 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
10973 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
10974 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
10975 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
10977 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
10978 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10980 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10981 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
10983 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
10984 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
10985 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
10986 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
10989 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
10990 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
10992 o Removed features:
10993 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
10994 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
10995 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
10996 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
10997 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
10998 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
10999 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
11002 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
11003 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
11004 command-line options to enable them.
11005 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
11006 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
11009 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
11011 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
11013 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
11014 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
11015 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
11016 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
11017 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
11018 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11020 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
11022 o Minor features (geoip):
11023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11026 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11027 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
11028 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11030 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11031 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
11032 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
11033 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
11035 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11036 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
11037 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
11038 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
11039 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11040 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
11041 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
11042 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11045 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
11046 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
11047 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
11048 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
11049 against previous versions.
11051 o Directory authority changes:
11052 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11054 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
11055 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
11056 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
11057 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
11059 o Minor features (build):
11060 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11061 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
11062 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
11063 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11064 Patch from intrigeri.
11066 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
11067 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
11068 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
11071 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
11072 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
11073 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
11074 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
11075 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
11078 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11079 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
11080 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
11081 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11082 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
11083 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
11084 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11086 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
11087 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
11088 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
11089 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
11091 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
11092 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
11093 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
11094 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
11095 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
11096 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11098 o Fallback directory list:
11099 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
11100 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
11101 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
11102 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
11103 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
11104 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
11105 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
11106 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
11107 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
11110 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
11111 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
11112 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
11113 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
11116 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
11117 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
11118 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
11119 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11121 o Minor features (build):
11122 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11123 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
11125 o Minor features (geoip):
11126 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11129 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11130 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
11131 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
11134 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
11135 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
11136 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
11140 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
11141 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
11142 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
11143 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
11144 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
11147 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
11148 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11149 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11150 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11151 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11153 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
11154 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
11155 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
11156 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
11157 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
11158 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
11160 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
11161 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
11162 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
11163 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11165 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
11166 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
11167 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
11168 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
11169 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
11170 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
11171 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
11173 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
11174 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
11176 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
11177 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
11178 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
11180 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
11181 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
11182 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
11183 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
11184 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
11185 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11188 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
11189 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
11190 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
11193 o Major bugfixes (key management):
11194 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11195 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11196 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11197 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11198 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11199 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11202 o Major bugfixes (testing):
11203 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
11204 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11205 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
11206 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11208 o Minor features (clients):
11209 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
11210 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
11211 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
11213 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11214 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
11215 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
11216 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
11217 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
11218 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
11219 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
11220 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
11221 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
11222 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
11224 o Minor features (geoip):
11225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11228 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
11229 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
11230 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
11233 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11234 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
11235 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
11237 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11238 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
11239 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
11241 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
11242 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
11244 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
11245 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
11248 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11249 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
11250 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
11251 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
11252 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11253 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
11254 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
11255 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11257 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
11258 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
11259 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
11260 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
11261 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11263 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
11264 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
11265 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
11266 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11267 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11268 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
11271 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
11272 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
11273 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
11274 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
11275 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
11276 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11278 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11279 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
11280 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
11281 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11282 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
11283 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11284 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
11285 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
11288 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
11289 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
11290 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11292 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
11293 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
11294 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
11295 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
11296 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
11297 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
11300 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
11301 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
11302 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
11304 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
11305 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
11306 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
11308 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11309 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
11310 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
11312 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11313 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
11314 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
11315 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11316 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
11317 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
11318 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
11321 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
11322 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
11323 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11326 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
11327 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
11328 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
11329 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
11332 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
11333 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
11334 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
11335 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
11336 directory support should also be much improved.
11338 o New system requirements:
11339 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
11340 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
11341 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
11342 longer runs with, these versions.
11343 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
11344 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
11345 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
11347 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
11348 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
11349 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
11350 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
11351 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
11353 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
11354 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
11355 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
11356 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
11357 Reported by Guido Vranken.
11359 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
11360 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
11361 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
11362 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
11363 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
11365 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
11366 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
11367 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
11368 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11370 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
11371 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
11372 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11373 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
11374 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11376 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
11377 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
11378 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
11379 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
11380 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
11381 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11384 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
11385 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
11386 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11388 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
11389 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
11390 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
11391 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
11394 o Major bugfixes (voting):
11395 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
11396 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
11397 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
11398 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
11400 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
11401 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
11402 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
11403 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11404 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
11405 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
11406 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
11407 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
11408 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
11409 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11411 o Minor features (security, win32):
11412 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
11413 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
11416 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
11417 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
11418 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
11419 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
11421 o Minor features (build):
11422 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
11423 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
11424 Steven Chamberlain.
11426 o Minor features (code hardening):
11427 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
11428 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
11429 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
11432 o Minor features (crypto):
11433 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
11434 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
11437 o Minor features (geoip):
11438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11441 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
11442 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
11443 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
11444 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
11445 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
11447 o Minor features (IPv6):
11448 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
11449 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
11450 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
11451 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
11452 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
11453 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
11454 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
11456 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11457 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
11458 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
11459 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
11460 while fixing 18548.
11462 o Minor features (robustness):
11463 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
11464 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
11465 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
11467 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11468 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
11469 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
11470 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
11471 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
11472 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
11473 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
11476 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
11477 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
11478 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
11479 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
11480 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
11482 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
11483 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
11484 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
11485 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
11487 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11488 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
11489 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
11491 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
11492 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
11493 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11494 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
11495 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
11496 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11498 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
11499 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
11500 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
11501 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
11502 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11504 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11505 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
11506 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
11507 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
11510 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11511 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
11512 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11514 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
11515 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
11516 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
11517 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11519 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11520 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
11521 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
11522 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
11523 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
11524 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11526 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
11527 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
11528 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
11529 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
11531 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11532 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
11533 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
11534 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
11535 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
11537 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
11538 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
11539 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
11540 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
11541 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
11542 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
11543 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
11544 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
11545 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
11548 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
11549 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
11550 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
11551 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11553 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
11554 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
11555 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
11557 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11558 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
11559 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
11560 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11561 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
11562 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
11563 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11564 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
11565 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11567 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11568 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
11569 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
11570 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11571 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
11572 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
11573 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
11574 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
11575 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
11576 Christian, patch by teor.
11578 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
11579 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
11580 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
11581 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
11583 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
11584 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
11585 patch by "cypherpunks".
11586 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
11588 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
11589 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11591 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
11592 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
11593 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
11594 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
11596 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
11597 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
11598 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
11601 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11602 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
11603 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
11604 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
11605 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
11606 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11608 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
11609 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
11610 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
11611 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
11613 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
11614 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
11615 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
11616 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
11618 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11619 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
11620 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
11621 17744. Patch from zerosion.
11622 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
11623 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
11624 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
11625 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
11626 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
11629 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
11630 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
11631 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
11633 o Removed features:
11634 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
11635 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
11636 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
11639 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
11641 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
11642 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
11645 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
11646 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
11647 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
11648 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
11649 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
11651 o Major features (security, Linux):
11652 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
11653 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
11654 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
11655 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
11656 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
11658 o Major features (directory system):
11659 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
11660 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
11661 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
11662 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
11663 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
11664 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
11665 "mikeperry" and "teor".
11666 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
11667 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
11668 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
11669 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
11670 15775. Patch by "teor".
11671 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
11672 "gsathya", and "karsten".
11673 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
11674 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
11675 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
11676 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
11677 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
11680 o Major key updates:
11681 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
11682 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
11685 o Minor features (security, clock):
11686 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
11687 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
11688 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
11689 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
11691 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
11692 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
11693 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
11694 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
11695 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
11696 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11698 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
11699 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
11700 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
11701 Implements ticket 17026.
11702 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
11703 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
11704 Implements feature 17986.
11705 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
11706 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
11707 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
11708 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
11709 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
11710 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
11713 o Minor features (security, RNG):
11714 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
11715 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
11716 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
11717 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
11718 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
11719 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
11720 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
11721 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
11722 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
11723 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
11726 o Minor features (accounting):
11727 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
11728 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
11729 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
11730 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
11732 o Minor features (build):
11733 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
11734 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
11735 patch from "cypherpunks."
11736 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
11737 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
11738 17549, 17921, and 17984.
11740 o Minor features (controller):
11741 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
11742 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
11743 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
11744 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
11745 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
11746 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
11747 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
11748 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
11751 o Minor features (crypto):
11752 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
11754 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
11755 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
11756 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
11757 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
11758 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
11759 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
11760 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
11761 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
11763 o Minor features (directory downloads):
11764 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
11765 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
11766 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
11767 17864; patch by "teor".
11768 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
11769 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
11770 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
11772 o Minor features (geoip):
11773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11776 o Minor features (IPv6):
11777 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
11778 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
11779 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
11780 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
11781 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
11782 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
11783 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
11784 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
11785 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
11786 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
11787 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
11789 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
11790 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11791 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
11792 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
11794 o Minor features (logging):
11795 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
11796 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
11797 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
11798 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
11801 o Minor features (portability):
11802 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
11803 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
11805 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
11806 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
11807 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
11808 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
11809 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
11811 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
11812 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
11813 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
11814 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
11815 Resolves ticket 17951.
11817 o Minor features (replay cache):
11818 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
11819 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
11821 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
11822 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
11823 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
11824 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
11825 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11826 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
11827 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
11828 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
11829 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
11830 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
11831 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11832 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
11833 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
11834 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
11836 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
11837 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
11838 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
11839 from "unixninja92".
11841 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11842 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
11843 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
11844 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
11845 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
11846 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
11848 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
11851 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11852 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
11853 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
11854 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11855 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
11856 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
11857 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11858 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
11860 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
11861 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
11862 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
11863 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
11864 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
11865 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
11866 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11867 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
11869 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
11870 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
11872 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
11873 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
11874 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11876 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11877 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
11878 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
11879 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11881 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
11882 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
11883 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11885 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11886 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
11887 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11889 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11890 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
11891 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
11892 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
11893 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
11895 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
11896 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11898 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11899 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
11900 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
11903 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
11904 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
11905 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
11906 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
11907 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
11908 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
11910 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
11911 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
11912 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
11913 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
11914 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
11916 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
11917 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
11918 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
11921 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
11922 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
11923 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
11924 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11925 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
11926 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
11927 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
11928 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
11931 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11932 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
11933 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
11934 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
11935 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
11936 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11937 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
11938 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
11939 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
11940 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
11942 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
11943 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11945 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11946 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
11947 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
11948 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
11949 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
11950 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
11951 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
11952 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
11953 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
11954 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
11956 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
11957 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
11958 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
11959 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
11961 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
11962 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
11963 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
11964 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
11965 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
11967 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
11968 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
11971 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
11972 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
11973 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
11974 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
11975 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
11976 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
11977 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
11980 o Removed features:
11981 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
11982 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
11983 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
11984 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
11985 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
11988 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
11989 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
11990 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
11991 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
11992 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
11993 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
11994 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
11995 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
11996 portion of ticket 16831.
11997 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
11998 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
11999 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
12001 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
12002 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
12005 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
12006 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
12007 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
12009 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12010 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12011 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12012 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12013 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12014 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12017 o Minor features (geoip):
12018 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12021 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12022 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
12023 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
12024 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
12025 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12026 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12028 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12029 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
12030 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
12031 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
12032 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
12033 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
12034 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
12035 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12036 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
12037 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12040 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
12041 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
12042 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
12043 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
12044 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
12045 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
12046 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
12047 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
12048 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
12049 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
12050 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
12051 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
12052 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
12053 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
12054 that would make him proud.
12056 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
12058 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
12059 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
12060 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
12061 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
12062 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
12063 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
12064 of Tor invoke which others.
12066 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
12069 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
12070 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
12071 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
12072 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
12073 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
12074 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
12075 release will the the official stable release.
12077 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
12078 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12079 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12080 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12081 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12084 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
12085 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
12086 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12088 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
12089 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
12090 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12091 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
12092 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12093 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
12094 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
12096 o Minor features (geoIP):
12097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12100 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12101 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
12102 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
12103 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
12104 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12105 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
12106 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
12108 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12109 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
12110 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
12113 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
12114 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
12115 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
12116 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
12118 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12119 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
12120 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
12121 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
12122 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
12123 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
12124 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
12125 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
12126 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
12127 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
12128 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
12132 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
12133 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
12137 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
12138 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
12139 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
12140 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
12141 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
12143 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
12144 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
12145 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
12146 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
12148 o Major features (security, hidden services):
12149 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
12150 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
12151 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
12152 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
12153 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
12154 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
12155 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
12157 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
12158 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
12159 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
12160 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
12161 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
12162 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
12165 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
12166 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
12167 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
12168 available. Implements ticket 16535.
12169 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
12170 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
12173 o Major features (performance testing):
12174 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
12175 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
12176 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
12178 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
12179 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
12180 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
12181 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
12183 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
12184 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
12185 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
12186 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
12187 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
12188 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
12190 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
12191 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
12193 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
12194 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
12195 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
12196 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
12197 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
12199 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
12200 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
12201 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
12202 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
12203 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
12204 own. Implements feature 15482.
12205 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
12206 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
12208 o Minor features (compilation):
12209 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
12210 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
12211 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
12212 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
12213 which started requiring ECC.
12215 o Minor features (geoip):
12216 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12219 o Minor features (hidden services):
12220 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
12221 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
12222 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
12223 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
12224 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
12225 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
12226 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
12227 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
12229 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
12230 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
12231 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
12234 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
12235 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
12236 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
12237 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
12239 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
12240 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
12241 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
12242 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
12243 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
12245 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
12246 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
12247 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
12248 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
12249 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12250 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
12251 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
12252 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
12253 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
12254 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
12255 Related to ticket 16069.
12256 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
12257 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
12258 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
12259 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
12260 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
12261 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12263 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
12264 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
12265 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12266 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
12267 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
12269 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
12270 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
12271 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12273 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12274 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
12275 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
12276 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12278 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12279 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
12280 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
12281 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
12282 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12284 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12285 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
12286 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
12287 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
12288 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
12289 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
12290 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
12291 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
12292 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
12293 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
12294 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
12297 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
12298 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
12299 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12302 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
12303 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12304 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
12305 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12307 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
12308 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
12309 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
12310 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
12312 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12313 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
12314 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
12316 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
12317 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12318 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
12319 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
12320 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
12321 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12322 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
12323 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12325 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12326 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
12327 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
12328 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
12329 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
12331 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
12332 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
12335 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12336 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
12337 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
12338 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
12339 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
12340 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
12341 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
12342 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
12343 function. Closes ticket 16763.
12344 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
12345 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
12346 suite of other microdesc functions.
12347 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
12348 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
12349 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
12350 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
12351 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
12352 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
12353 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
12354 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
12355 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
12356 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
12358 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
12359 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
12361 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
12364 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
12365 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
12366 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
12367 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
12371 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
12372 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
12373 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
12374 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
12375 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
12376 Closes ticket 13338.
12377 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
12378 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
12379 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
12380 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
12381 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
12382 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
12385 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
12386 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
12387 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
12388 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
12389 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
12390 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
12391 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
12393 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
12394 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
12395 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
12396 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
12397 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
12398 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
12399 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
12400 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
12401 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
12402 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
12403 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
12404 network before we begin.
12405 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
12406 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
12407 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
12408 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
12409 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
12410 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
12411 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
12412 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
12415 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
12416 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
12417 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
12418 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
12419 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
12420 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
12422 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
12423 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
12424 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
12426 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
12427 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
12428 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
12429 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
12430 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
12431 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
12432 Implements part of ticket 12498.
12433 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
12434 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12435 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
12436 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
12437 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
12438 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
12439 part of ticket 12498.
12440 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
12441 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
12442 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
12443 key). Closes ticket 13642.
12445 o Major features (Hidden services):
12446 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
12447 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
12448 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
12449 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
12450 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
12452 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
12453 introduction points, which used to change the number of
12454 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
12455 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
12457 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
12458 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
12459 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
12460 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
12461 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
12462 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
12464 o Major features (performance):
12465 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
12466 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
12467 Implements ticket 16467.
12468 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
12469 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
12470 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
12471 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
12473 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
12474 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
12475 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
12476 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
12477 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
12478 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
12480 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12481 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12482 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12483 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12484 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
12485 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
12486 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
12487 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
12490 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12491 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
12492 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
12493 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
12494 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
12495 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
12496 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
12499 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
12500 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
12501 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
12502 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
12503 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
12504 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
12506 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
12507 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
12508 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
12509 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
12510 by "cypherpunks_backup".
12511 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
12512 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
12513 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
12516 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
12517 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
12518 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
12519 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
12520 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
12521 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
12522 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
12524 o Minor features (client):
12525 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
12526 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
12527 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
12529 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
12530 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
12531 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
12532 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12533 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
12534 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
12535 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
12538 o Minor features (control protocol):
12539 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
12540 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
12542 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12543 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
12544 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
12545 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
12546 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
12547 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
12549 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
12550 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12551 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12553 o Minor features (hidden services):
12554 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
12555 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
12556 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
12557 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
12560 o Minor features (portability):
12561 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
12562 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
12563 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
12565 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
12566 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
12567 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
12568 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
12570 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12571 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
12572 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
12573 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12575 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
12576 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12577 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12578 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12579 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12580 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12582 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12583 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
12584 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
12585 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12586 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
12587 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
12588 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12590 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12591 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
12592 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12594 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
12595 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
12596 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
12597 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
12599 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
12600 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
12601 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
12602 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
12604 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
12605 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
12608 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12609 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
12610 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12611 from "cypherpunks".
12613 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
12614 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
12615 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12616 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
12617 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
12618 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12620 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12621 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
12622 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12624 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
12625 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
12626 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12628 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
12629 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
12630 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12631 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
12632 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12633 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
12634 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
12635 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
12636 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12638 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12639 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
12640 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
12641 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
12642 haven't supported that in ages.
12643 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
12644 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
12645 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
12646 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
12649 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
12650 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
12651 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
12652 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
12653 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
12654 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
12656 o Removed features:
12657 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
12658 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
12659 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
12660 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
12661 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
12662 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
12663 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
12664 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
12665 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
12666 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
12667 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
12668 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
12669 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
12670 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
12671 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
12672 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
12673 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
12676 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
12677 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
12678 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
12679 Closes ticket 15817.
12680 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
12681 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
12683 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
12684 default as a part of "make check".
12685 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
12686 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
12687 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
12688 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
12692 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
12693 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
12694 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
12695 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
12696 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
12697 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
12699 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
12700 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
12701 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
12702 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12703 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
12704 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
12705 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
12706 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
12709 o Major bugfixes (stability):
12710 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
12711 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
12712 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
12713 by "cypherpunks_backup".
12714 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
12715 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
12716 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
12719 o Minor features (geoip):
12720 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12721 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12723 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
12724 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12725 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12726 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12727 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12728 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12730 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12731 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
12732 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
12733 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
12736 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
12737 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
12738 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
12739 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
12740 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
12742 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
12743 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
12744 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
12745 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
12746 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
12749 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
12750 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
12751 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
12752 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
12753 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
12754 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
12755 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
12757 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12758 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
12759 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
12760 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
12762 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12763 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
12764 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
12765 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
12766 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
12767 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
12770 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12771 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
12772 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12775 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
12776 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
12777 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
12778 authorities should upgrade.
12780 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12781 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
12782 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
12783 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
12786 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12787 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12788 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12791 o Minor features (geoip):
12792 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12793 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12797 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
12798 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
12799 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
12800 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
12801 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
12802 the hidden services subsystem.
12804 o New system requirements:
12805 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
12806 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
12809 o Major features (controller):
12810 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
12811 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
12813 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
12814 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
12815 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
12816 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
12817 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
12818 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
12819 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12821 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12822 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
12823 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
12824 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
12827 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
12828 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
12829 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
12830 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
12831 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
12833 o Minor features (command-line interface):
12834 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
12835 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12836 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
12837 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
12839 o Minor features (controller):
12840 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
12841 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
12842 present. Implements ticket 14840.
12843 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
12844 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
12845 Closes ticket 14845.
12846 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
12847 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
12848 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
12850 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
12851 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12852 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12853 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12855 o Minor features (geoip):
12856 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
12857 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12860 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
12861 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
12862 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
12863 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
12864 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
12865 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
12866 Closes ticket 15745.
12868 o Minor features (logging):
12869 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
12870 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
12873 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
12874 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
12875 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
12876 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
12878 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
12879 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
12880 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
12881 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
12882 Resolves ticket 15435.
12884 o Minor features (testing):
12885 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
12886 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
12887 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
12888 files. Closes ticket 15180.
12889 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
12890 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
12891 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
12892 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
12893 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
12894 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
12895 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
12896 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
12897 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
12898 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
12899 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
12900 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
12902 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12903 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
12904 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
12907 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
12908 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
12909 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
12911 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
12912 stderr, not stdout.
12914 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
12915 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
12916 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
12917 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
12918 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
12919 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
12920 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
12921 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12923 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12924 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
12925 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
12927 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
12928 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
12929 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
12932 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12933 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12934 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12936 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
12937 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12939 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
12940 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
12941 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
12942 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
12945 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
12946 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
12947 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
12948 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
12949 recent enough Clang.
12951 o Minor bugfixes (network):
12952 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
12953 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
12954 unsuitable for public communications.
12956 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12957 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
12958 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
12959 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
12960 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
12961 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
12963 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
12964 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
12965 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
12966 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
12967 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
12968 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
12969 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
12970 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
12972 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12973 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
12974 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
12976 - Set the severity correctly when testing
12977 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
12978 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
12979 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
12980 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
12982 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12983 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
12984 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
12986 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
12987 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
12988 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
12989 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
12990 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
12993 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
12994 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
12996 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
12997 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12998 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
12999 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
13000 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
13003 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
13004 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
13005 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
13006 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
13007 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
13008 Closes ticket 14922.
13010 o Removed features:
13011 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
13012 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
13013 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
13014 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
13015 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
13016 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
13017 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
13018 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
13019 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
13020 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
13021 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
13024 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
13025 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13026 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13027 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13028 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13030 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13031 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13033 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13034 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13035 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13036 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13037 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13038 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13039 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13041 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13042 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13043 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13044 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13045 Resolves ticket 15515.
13048 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
13049 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13050 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13051 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13052 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13054 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13055 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13057 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13058 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13059 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13060 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13061 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13062 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13063 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13065 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13066 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13067 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13068 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13069 Resolves ticket 15515.
13072 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
13073 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
13074 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
13075 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
13076 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13078 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
13079 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13081 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13082 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13083 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13084 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13085 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13086 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13087 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13089 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13090 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13091 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13092 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13093 Resolves ticket 15515.
13094 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
13095 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
13096 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
13100 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
13101 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
13103 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
13104 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
13105 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
13106 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
13107 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
13108 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
13109 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
13110 bugs should be addressed.
13112 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13113 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
13114 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
13115 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13117 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
13118 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
13119 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
13121 o Major bugfixes (client):
13122 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
13123 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
13126 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13127 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
13128 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
13129 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
13130 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
13131 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13133 o Major bugfixes (portability):
13134 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
13135 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
13138 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13139 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
13140 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
13141 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
13142 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
13144 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13145 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
13146 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
13149 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
13150 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
13152 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
13153 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
13154 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
13156 o Directory authority changes:
13157 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13158 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13159 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13160 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13161 closes ticket 14487.
13163 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
13164 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
13165 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
13168 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
13169 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
13170 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
13171 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
13172 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
13173 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
13174 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
13175 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13177 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
13178 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13179 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13180 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13182 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13183 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
13184 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
13185 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
13187 o Minor features (controller):
13188 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
13189 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
13190 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
13192 o Minor features (geoip):
13193 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13194 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13197 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
13198 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
13199 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
13200 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13201 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
13202 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13205 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
13206 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
13207 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
13209 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13210 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
13211 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
13212 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
13213 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13214 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
13215 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
13216 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13218 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13219 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
13220 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13222 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
13223 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
13224 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
13225 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
13226 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
13230 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
13231 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
13232 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
13235 o Directory authority changes:
13236 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13237 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13238 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13239 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13240 closes ticket 14487.
13242 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
13243 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13244 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13245 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13247 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
13248 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
13249 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
13250 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
13251 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
13252 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
13253 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
13254 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13256 o Minor features (geoip):
13257 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13258 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13261 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
13262 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
13263 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
13264 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
13265 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
13267 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
13268 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
13269 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
13272 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
13273 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
13274 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
13275 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
13276 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13277 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
13278 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
13279 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13281 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
13282 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
13283 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
13286 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13287 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
13288 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
13290 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
13291 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13292 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
13293 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
13294 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
13296 o Minor features (controller):
13297 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
13298 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
13299 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
13301 o Minor features (geoip):
13302 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13303 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13306 o Minor features (logs):
13307 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
13310 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
13311 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
13312 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
13313 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13314 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
13315 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
13316 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
13317 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
13318 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
13320 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13321 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
13323 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
13326 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13327 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
13328 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
13330 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
13331 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
13332 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
13333 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13334 from "cypherpunks".
13335 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
13336 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
13339 o Directory authority IP change:
13340 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13341 closes ticket 14487.
13344 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
13345 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
13346 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
13350 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
13351 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
13352 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
13353 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
13354 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
13355 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
13357 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
13358 the next version will be a release candidate.
13360 o Deprecated versions:
13361 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
13362 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
13364 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
13365 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
13366 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
13367 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
13368 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
13369 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
13371 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
13372 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
13373 Implements ticket 11485.
13375 o Major features (changed defaults):
13376 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
13377 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
13378 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
13379 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
13380 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
13381 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
13383 o Major features (directory system):
13384 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
13385 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
13386 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
13387 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
13388 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
13389 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
13390 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
13391 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
13392 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
13393 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
13394 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
13395 227. Closes ticket 10395.
13397 o Major features (guards):
13398 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
13399 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
13400 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
13401 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
13402 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
13404 o Major features (performance):
13405 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
13406 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
13407 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
13408 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
13409 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
13410 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
13411 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
13412 Implements ticket 9682.
13414 o Major features (relay):
13415 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
13416 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
13417 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
13419 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
13420 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13421 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13422 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13424 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
13425 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
13426 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
13427 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
13428 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
13429 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
13430 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
13432 o Minor features (build):
13433 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
13434 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
13435 Resolves ticket 13037.
13437 o Minor features (controller):
13438 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
13439 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
13441 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
13442 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
13443 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
13444 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
13445 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
13446 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
13448 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
13449 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
13450 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
13451 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
13452 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
13453 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
13454 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
13455 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
13456 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
13457 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
13459 o Minor features (geoip):
13460 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
13461 GeoLite2 Country database.
13463 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13464 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
13465 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
13466 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
13468 o Minor features (hidden service):
13469 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
13470 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
13471 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
13472 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
13473 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
13474 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
13475 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
13476 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
13478 o Minor features (interface):
13479 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
13480 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
13481 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
13483 o Minor features (logging):
13484 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
13485 Resolves ticket 6852.
13486 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
13487 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
13488 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
13490 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
13491 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
13493 o Minor features (stability):
13494 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
13495 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
13498 o Minor features (systemd):
13499 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
13500 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
13502 o Minor features (testing networks):
13503 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
13504 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
13505 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
13506 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
13507 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
13508 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
13510 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
13511 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
13512 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
13513 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
13514 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
13516 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
13517 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
13518 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
13519 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
13520 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
13522 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
13523 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
13524 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
13525 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
13526 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
13527 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
13528 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
13529 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13531 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
13532 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
13533 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
13534 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13535 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
13536 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13537 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
13538 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
13540 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
13541 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
13542 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
13545 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
13546 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
13547 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
13548 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
13549 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13551 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
13552 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
13553 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
13554 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
13555 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13557 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13558 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
13559 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
13560 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
13561 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
13562 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
13563 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
13564 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
13565 Addresses ticket 14188.
13566 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
13567 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
13568 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
13569 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
13570 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
13571 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
13572 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
13573 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
13574 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13576 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13577 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
13578 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
13579 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13580 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
13581 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
13582 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
13583 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13585 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13586 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
13587 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
13588 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
13589 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13590 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
13591 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
13592 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13593 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
13594 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13595 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
13596 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
13597 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13599 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
13600 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
13601 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
13602 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
13603 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
13604 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
13605 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
13606 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
13607 state, and key files.
13608 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
13609 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
13612 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13613 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
13614 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
13615 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
13616 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13617 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
13618 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
13619 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13620 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
13621 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
13622 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13624 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13625 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
13626 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13627 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
13629 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
13630 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13632 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
13633 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
13634 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
13635 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
13636 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
13637 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13639 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
13640 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
13641 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
13642 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13643 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
13644 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
13645 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13646 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
13647 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
13648 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13650 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13651 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
13652 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
13654 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
13655 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
13657 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
13658 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
13659 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
13660 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
13661 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13663 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
13664 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
13665 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
13666 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
13669 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
13670 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
13671 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
13674 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13675 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
13676 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13678 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
13679 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
13680 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
13681 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
13682 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
13683 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
13684 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
13686 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
13687 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
13690 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
13691 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
13692 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
13694 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
13695 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
13696 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
13699 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13700 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
13701 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
13702 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
13703 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
13704 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
13705 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
13706 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
13707 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
13709 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
13710 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
13712 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
13716 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
13717 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
13718 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
13719 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
13720 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
13721 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
13723 o Downgraded warnings:
13724 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
13725 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
13727 o Removed features:
13728 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
13729 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
13730 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
13731 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
13732 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
13736 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
13737 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13738 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
13739 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
13740 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
13741 (existing behavior).
13742 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
13743 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
13744 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
13745 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
13746 Closes ticket 14107.
13747 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
13748 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13749 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
13750 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
13752 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
13753 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
13754 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13757 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
13758 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
13759 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
13760 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
13761 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
13762 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
13764 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
13765 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
13766 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
13767 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
13769 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
13770 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
13771 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
13772 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
13773 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
13774 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
13776 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
13777 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
13778 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
13779 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
13780 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
13781 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
13782 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
13785 o Major features (hidden services):
13786 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
13787 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
13788 Closes ticket 13667.
13789 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
13790 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
13791 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
13792 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
13793 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
13794 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
13795 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
13796 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
13797 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
13798 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
13799 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
13801 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
13802 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
13803 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
13804 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
13805 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
13806 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
13809 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13810 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
13811 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
13812 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
13813 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
13814 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
13816 o Directory authority changes:
13817 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13818 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13819 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13821 o Major removed features:
13822 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
13823 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
13824 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
13825 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
13827 o Minor features (client):
13828 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
13829 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
13830 Resolves ticket 13315.
13832 o Minor features (controller):
13833 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
13834 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
13837 o Minor features (geoip):
13838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13841 o Minor features (hidden services):
13842 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
13843 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
13844 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
13845 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
13846 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
13847 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
13849 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
13850 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
13851 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
13853 o Minor features (systemd):
13854 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
13855 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13856 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
13857 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
13859 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
13860 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
13861 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
13862 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
13863 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
13866 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
13867 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
13868 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
13869 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
13870 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
13872 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
13873 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
13874 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
13877 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
13878 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
13879 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
13880 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
13881 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
13883 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
13884 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
13885 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13887 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13888 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
13889 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
13890 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
13891 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
13893 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
13894 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
13897 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13898 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
13899 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
13900 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
13901 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
13902 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
13903 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
13904 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
13905 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13906 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
13907 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
13908 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
13909 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
13910 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
13913 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13914 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
13915 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
13916 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
13917 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
13918 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
13920 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13921 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
13922 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
13923 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
13925 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
13926 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13928 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13929 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
13930 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
13931 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
13934 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
13935 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
13936 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
13937 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
13938 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
13939 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
13941 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
13942 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
13943 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
13944 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
13945 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13946 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
13947 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
13948 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
13949 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
13950 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
13951 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
13952 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
13953 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
13954 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
13955 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
13956 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
13957 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
13958 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
13959 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
13960 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13961 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
13962 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
13963 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
13964 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
13965 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
13966 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
13967 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
13968 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13969 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
13970 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
13971 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
13972 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
13974 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
13975 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
13976 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
13977 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
13978 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13980 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13981 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
13982 with a function instead.
13983 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
13984 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
13985 Closes ticket 13172.
13986 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
13987 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
13988 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
13989 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
13990 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
13991 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
13992 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
13993 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
13994 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
13995 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
13996 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
13997 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
14001 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
14002 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
14003 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
14004 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
14005 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
14006 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
14007 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
14008 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
14009 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
14010 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
14011 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
14012 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
14015 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
14016 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
14017 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
14018 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
14019 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
14020 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
14022 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
14026 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
14027 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
14028 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
14029 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
14030 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
14031 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
14032 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
14033 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
14034 of introducing infinite download loops.
14036 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
14037 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
14038 with 0.2.5.x for now.
14040 o New compiler and system requirements:
14041 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
14042 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
14043 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
14044 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
14046 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
14047 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
14048 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
14049 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
14050 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
14051 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
14052 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
14053 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
14054 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
14056 o Removed platform support:
14057 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
14058 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
14059 Closes ticket 11446.
14061 o Major features (bridges):
14062 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
14063 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
14064 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
14067 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
14068 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
14069 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
14070 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
14073 o Major features (directory system):
14074 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
14075 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
14076 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
14077 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
14079 o Major features (sample torrc):
14080 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
14081 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
14082 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
14083 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
14084 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
14085 generally useful "sample torrc".
14087 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14088 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
14089 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14091 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
14092 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
14093 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
14094 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
14095 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14097 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
14098 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
14099 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
14100 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
14102 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
14103 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
14104 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
14105 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
14106 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
14107 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
14110 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
14111 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
14112 document. Implements feature 10427.
14114 o Minor features (client):
14115 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
14116 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
14117 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
14118 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
14120 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14121 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
14122 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
14123 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
14124 argument more than once.
14125 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
14126 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
14127 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
14128 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
14129 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
14130 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
14132 o Minor features (logging):
14133 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
14134 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
14135 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
14136 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
14137 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
14138 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
14139 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
14140 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
14141 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
14143 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
14144 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
14145 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
14146 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
14148 o Minor features (relay):
14149 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
14150 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
14151 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
14153 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
14154 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
14155 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
14156 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
14158 o Minor features (testing networks):
14159 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
14160 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
14161 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
14162 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
14163 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
14166 o Minor features (validation):
14167 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
14168 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
14169 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
14170 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
14171 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
14172 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
14173 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
14174 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
14176 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
14177 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
14178 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
14179 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14181 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14182 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
14183 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
14184 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14186 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
14187 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
14188 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
14190 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
14191 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
14192 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
14194 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
14195 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14196 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
14197 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
14198 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14199 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
14200 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14202 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14203 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
14204 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
14205 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
14206 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
14207 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14208 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
14209 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
14210 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
14212 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
14213 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
14214 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
14215 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
14216 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
14218 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
14219 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
14220 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
14222 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14223 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
14224 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
14225 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
14226 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
14228 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14229 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
14230 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
14231 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14232 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
14233 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
14234 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14235 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
14236 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
14237 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
14238 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
14241 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
14242 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
14243 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
14244 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
14245 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14247 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14248 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
14249 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
14250 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
14251 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
14254 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
14255 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
14256 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14257 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
14258 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
14259 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14261 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14262 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
14263 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
14264 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14266 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
14267 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
14268 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
14269 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14271 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
14272 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
14273 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
14274 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
14277 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
14278 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
14279 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14282 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
14283 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14284 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
14285 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
14286 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
14289 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14290 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
14291 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
14293 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
14294 Resolves ticket 12205.
14295 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
14296 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
14297 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
14298 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
14300 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
14301 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
14302 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
14304 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
14305 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
14307 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
14308 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
14309 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
14310 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
14311 or_options_t structure.
14314 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
14315 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
14316 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
14317 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
14320 o Removed features:
14321 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
14322 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
14323 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
14324 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
14325 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
14326 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
14327 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
14328 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
14329 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
14331 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
14332 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
14334 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
14335 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
14336 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
14337 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
14338 anymore, and ignore it.
14341 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
14342 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
14343 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
14344 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
14345 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
14346 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
14347 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
14348 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
14349 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
14350 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
14351 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
14352 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
14354 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
14355 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
14356 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
14358 o Distribution (systemd):
14359 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
14360 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
14361 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
14362 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
14363 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14365 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
14366 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
14368 o Removed features (directory authorities):
14369 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
14370 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
14371 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
14372 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
14373 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
14374 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
14375 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
14376 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
14377 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
14379 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
14380 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
14381 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
14382 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
14385 o Testing (test-network.sh):
14386 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
14387 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
14389 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
14391 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
14392 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
14393 Partially implements ticket 13161.
14396 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
14397 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
14399 It adds several new security features, including improved
14400 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
14401 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
14402 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
14403 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
14404 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
14405 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
14406 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
14407 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
14408 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
14409 and features mentioned below.
14411 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
14412 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
14414 o Deprecated versions:
14415 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
14416 attention for some while.
14419 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
14420 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
14421 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
14422 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
14423 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
14424 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
14426 o Major security fixes:
14427 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
14428 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
14429 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
14431 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
14432 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
14433 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
14434 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
14437 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
14438 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
14439 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
14440 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14442 o Compilation fixes:
14443 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
14444 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
14445 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
14447 o Downgraded warnings:
14448 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
14449 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
14452 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
14453 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
14454 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
14455 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
14456 (which does affect Tor).
14458 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
14459 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
14460 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
14461 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
14463 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
14464 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
14465 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
14466 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
14469 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
14470 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
14471 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
14472 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
14473 the directory authorities.
14476 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
14477 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
14478 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
14479 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
14480 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
14481 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
14482 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
14483 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
14484 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
14485 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
14486 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
14487 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14489 o Directory authority changes:
14490 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
14493 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
14494 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
14495 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
14496 the directory authorities.
14499 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
14500 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
14501 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
14502 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
14503 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
14504 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
14505 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
14506 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
14507 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
14508 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
14509 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
14510 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14512 o Directory authority changes:
14513 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
14515 o Minor features (geoip):
14516 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14520 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
14521 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
14522 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
14523 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
14524 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
14526 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
14527 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
14528 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
14529 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
14530 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
14531 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
14532 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14533 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
14534 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
14535 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
14536 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
14537 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
14538 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
14539 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14540 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
14541 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
14543 o Major bugfixes (relay):
14544 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
14545 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14546 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14547 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
14548 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
14549 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
14550 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14552 o Minor features (bridge):
14553 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
14554 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
14556 o Minor features (geoip):
14557 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14560 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14561 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
14562 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
14563 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
14564 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
14565 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
14566 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14567 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
14568 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
14569 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
14570 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14571 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
14572 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
14573 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
14574 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
14576 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
14577 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
14578 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
14579 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
14580 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
14582 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14583 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
14584 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14585 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
14586 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
14589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14590 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
14591 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14592 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
14593 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
14594 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
14595 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
14596 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14597 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
14598 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
14599 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
14602 o Distribution (systemd):
14603 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
14604 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
14605 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
14606 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
14607 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
14608 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
14609 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
14610 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
14611 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
14615 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
14616 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
14618 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
14622 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
14623 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
14624 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
14625 us closer to a release candidate.
14627 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
14628 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
14629 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
14630 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
14631 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
14633 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
14634 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
14635 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
14636 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
14637 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
14638 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
14639 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
14640 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
14641 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
14645 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
14646 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
14647 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
14648 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
14649 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
14650 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
14651 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
14652 to build circuits".
14655 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
14656 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
14657 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
14658 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
14659 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
14660 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
14661 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
14662 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14664 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
14666 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
14667 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
14668 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
14669 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
14670 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
14671 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
14672 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
14673 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
14674 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
14675 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14678 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
14679 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
14680 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14681 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
14683 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
14684 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
14685 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
14688 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
14689 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
14690 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
14691 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
14694 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
14695 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
14696 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
14697 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
14698 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
14699 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
14700 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
14701 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
14702 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
14703 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
14706 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
14707 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
14708 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
14709 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
14710 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
14711 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
14712 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
14713 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
14717 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
14718 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
14719 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
14720 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
14721 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
14722 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
14723 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
14724 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
14725 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14726 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
14727 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
14728 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
14729 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
14732 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14736 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
14737 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
14738 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
14739 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
14740 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
14741 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
14744 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
14745 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
14746 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
14747 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
14748 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
14749 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
14750 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
14751 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
14752 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
14753 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
14754 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
14755 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
14756 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14758 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
14759 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
14760 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
14761 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
14764 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
14765 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
14766 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
14768 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
14769 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
14770 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
14771 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
14772 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
14773 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
14774 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
14775 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
14776 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
14777 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
14778 router's identity is not forgeable.
14780 o Major bugfixes (relay):
14781 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
14782 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
14783 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
14784 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14785 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
14786 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
14787 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
14788 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
14789 bugfix on every version of Tor.
14791 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
14792 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
14793 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
14794 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
14797 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14798 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
14799 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
14800 help diagnose bug 7164.
14801 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
14802 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
14803 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
14804 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
14805 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
14807 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
14808 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
14809 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
14810 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
14811 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
14812 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
14813 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
14815 o Minor features (security, memory management):
14816 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
14817 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
14818 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
14819 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
14820 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
14821 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
14823 o Minor features (security):
14824 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
14825 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
14826 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
14827 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
14829 o Minor features (build):
14830 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
14831 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
14832 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
14834 o Minor features (other):
14835 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14838 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
14839 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
14840 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
14841 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
14842 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14844 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14845 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
14846 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
14847 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
14848 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
14849 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
14850 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
14851 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
14852 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14853 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
14854 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
14855 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
14857 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14858 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
14859 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14860 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
14861 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
14862 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
14863 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
14864 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
14865 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
14866 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
14867 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14868 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
14869 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
14870 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
14871 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
14872 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
14873 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
14874 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
14877 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
14878 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
14879 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
14880 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
14881 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
14882 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
14883 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14885 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
14886 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
14887 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14888 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
14889 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14890 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
14891 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14892 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
14893 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
14895 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
14896 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
14898 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
14899 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
14901 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
14902 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
14903 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14904 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
14905 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
14906 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14907 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
14908 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
14909 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
14911 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
14912 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
14913 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
14914 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
14915 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
14916 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14917 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
14918 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
14919 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14920 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
14921 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
14922 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14923 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
14924 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
14925 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
14926 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
14927 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
14928 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14930 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14931 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
14932 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
14933 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
14934 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
14935 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14936 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
14937 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
14938 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
14941 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14942 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
14943 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
14944 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
14945 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14947 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14948 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
14949 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
14950 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
14952 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
14953 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
14954 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
14955 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14956 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
14957 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
14958 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
14959 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
14961 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
14962 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
14963 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
14964 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
14967 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
14968 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
14969 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
14970 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
14971 versions. Found by "skruffy".
14972 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
14973 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
14974 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
14977 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
14978 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
14979 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
14980 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
14983 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
14984 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
14985 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
14986 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
14988 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
14989 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
14990 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
14992 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
14993 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
14994 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14996 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14997 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
14998 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14999 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
15000 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
15004 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
15005 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
15006 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
15007 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
15010 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
15011 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
15012 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
15013 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
15015 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
15016 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
15018 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
15019 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
15020 caches don't get confused.
15023 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
15024 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
15025 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
15026 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
15027 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
15030 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
15031 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
15032 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
15033 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
15034 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
15035 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
15039 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
15040 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
15041 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
15042 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
15043 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
15044 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
15045 of RAM, and several others.
15047 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15048 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
15049 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
15050 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
15051 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
15053 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
15054 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
15055 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
15056 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
15059 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15060 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
15061 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
15062 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
15063 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
15064 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
15065 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15066 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
15067 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
15068 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
15069 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
15070 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
15071 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
15072 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
15073 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
15074 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
15075 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
15076 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
15077 Resolves ticket 11438.
15079 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
15080 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
15081 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
15082 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
15083 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
15084 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15086 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15087 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
15088 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15090 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15091 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
15092 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15094 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15095 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
15096 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
15097 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15099 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15100 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
15101 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
15103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15104 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
15105 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15108 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
15109 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
15110 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
15111 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
15114 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15115 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
15116 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
15117 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
15119 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15120 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
15121 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
15122 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15124 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15125 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
15126 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
15130 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
15131 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
15132 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
15133 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
15134 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
15135 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
15136 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
15137 the Linux sandbox code.
15139 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
15140 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
15141 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
15143 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
15144 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15146 o Major features (security):
15147 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
15148 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
15149 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
15150 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
15151 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
15152 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
15153 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
15154 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
15156 o Major features (relay performance):
15157 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
15158 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
15159 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
15160 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
15161 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
15162 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
15163 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
15164 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
15165 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
15166 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
15168 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
15169 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
15170 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
15171 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
15172 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
15173 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
15174 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
15176 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
15177 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
15179 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
15180 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
15181 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
15182 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
15183 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
15184 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
15185 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15186 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
15187 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
15188 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
15189 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
15190 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
15191 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
15192 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
15193 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
15194 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
15195 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
15196 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
15197 Resolves ticket 11438.
15199 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
15200 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
15201 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
15202 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15204 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
15205 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
15206 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
15207 10267; patch from "yurivict".
15208 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
15209 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
15210 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
15211 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
15212 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
15213 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
15215 o Minor features (security):
15216 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
15217 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
15218 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
15219 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
15222 o Minor features (log verbosity):
15223 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
15224 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
15225 Resolves ticket 5286.
15226 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
15227 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
15228 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
15229 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
15230 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
15231 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
15232 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
15233 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
15234 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
15236 o Minor features (relay):
15237 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
15238 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
15239 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
15241 o Minor features (controller):
15242 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
15243 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
15245 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
15246 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
15247 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
15249 o Minor features (bridge client):
15250 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
15251 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
15252 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
15254 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15255 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
15256 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
15257 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
15258 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
15259 still referenced by a live node_t object.
15261 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
15262 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
15263 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
15264 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
15266 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
15267 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
15268 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
15269 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
15272 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
15273 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
15274 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15276 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
15277 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
15278 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
15279 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15280 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
15281 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
15282 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15284 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
15285 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
15286 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
15287 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15288 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
15289 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
15290 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15291 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
15292 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
15293 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
15294 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15295 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
15296 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
15299 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
15300 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
15301 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
15302 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
15303 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
15305 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
15306 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
15307 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
15310 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15311 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
15312 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15314 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
15315 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
15316 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15318 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15319 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
15320 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
15321 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15323 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
15324 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
15325 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15326 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
15327 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
15329 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
15330 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
15331 early. Fixes bug 10081.
15333 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
15334 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
15335 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15336 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
15337 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15338 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
15339 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
15340 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
15342 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
15343 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
15344 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
15345 should never have affected anyone in practice.
15347 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15348 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
15349 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15351 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
15352 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
15353 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
15354 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
15355 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
15356 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
15357 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
15358 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
15359 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
15360 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15361 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
15362 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
15363 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
15364 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
15366 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
15367 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
15368 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
15369 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
15370 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
15371 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
15372 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
15373 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
15377 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
15378 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
15379 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
15380 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15381 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
15382 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15383 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
15384 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
15386 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
15388 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15389 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
15390 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
15391 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
15392 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
15395 o Deprecated versions:
15396 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15397 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
15398 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
15399 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
15402 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
15403 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
15404 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
15405 Patch from Dana Koch.
15408 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
15409 Resolves ticket 11070.
15412 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
15413 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
15414 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
15415 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
15416 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
15419 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
15420 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
15422 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
15423 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
15424 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
15425 streams attached to each circuit.
15427 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
15428 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
15429 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
15430 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
15431 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
15432 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
15433 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
15434 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
15435 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
15436 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
15437 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
15438 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
15439 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
15441 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
15442 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
15443 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15445 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
15446 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
15447 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
15448 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
15449 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
15450 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
15451 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
15452 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
15453 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
15455 o Minor features (other):
15456 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
15457 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
15458 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
15459 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
15460 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
15461 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
15462 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
15463 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
15464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15467 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
15468 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
15469 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
15470 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
15471 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
15472 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
15473 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
15474 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15476 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15477 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
15478 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
15479 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
15480 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15481 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
15482 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
15483 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
15485 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
15486 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
15487 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
15488 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
15489 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
15490 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15491 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
15492 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
15493 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15494 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
15495 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
15496 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15498 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
15499 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
15500 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15501 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
15502 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
15503 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
15504 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
15505 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
15506 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15507 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
15508 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
15509 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
15510 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
15511 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
15513 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
15514 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
15516 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
15517 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
15518 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
15519 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
15520 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
15521 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
15522 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15523 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
15524 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
15525 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
15526 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
15527 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15528 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
15529 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
15531 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15532 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
15533 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
15534 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15537 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
15538 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
15539 the rest of bug 10841.
15542 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
15543 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
15544 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
15545 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
15546 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
15547 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
15548 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
15549 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
15550 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
15551 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
15552 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
15553 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15554 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
15555 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
15556 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15558 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15559 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
15560 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
15562 o Test infrastructure:
15563 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
15564 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
15565 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
15566 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
15569 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
15570 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
15571 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
15572 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
15574 o Major features (client security):
15575 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
15576 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
15577 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
15578 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
15579 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
15580 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15583 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
15584 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
15585 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
15586 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15588 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15589 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
15590 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
15591 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
15592 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
15595 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
15596 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
15598 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
15599 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
15600 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
15601 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
15602 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
15603 GeoLite2 Country database.
15606 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
15607 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
15608 bugfix on every released Tor.
15609 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
15610 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
15611 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
15612 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15613 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
15614 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
15615 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
15616 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
15617 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
15618 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15619 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
15620 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
15621 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15622 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
15623 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15625 o Documentation fixes:
15626 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
15627 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15630 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
15631 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
15632 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
15633 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
15634 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
15635 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
15636 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
15637 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
15639 o Major features (client security):
15640 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
15641 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
15642 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
15643 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
15644 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
15645 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
15646 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
15647 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
15648 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
15649 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
15650 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
15651 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
15653 o Major features (bridges):
15654 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
15655 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
15656 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
15657 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
15658 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
15659 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
15660 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
15661 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
15664 o Major features (other):
15665 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
15666 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
15667 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
15668 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
15669 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
15670 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
15671 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
15672 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
15673 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
15674 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
15675 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
15676 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
15679 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
15680 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
15681 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15682 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
15683 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
15684 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
15685 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15687 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
15688 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
15689 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
15690 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
15691 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
15692 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
15693 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
15694 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
15695 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
15697 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
15698 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15699 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
15700 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
15701 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
15702 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15704 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15705 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
15706 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
15707 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
15708 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
15709 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
15712 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
15713 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
15714 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
15715 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
15716 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
15717 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
15718 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
15720 o Minor features (security):
15721 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
15722 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
15725 o Minor features (config options and command line):
15726 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
15727 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
15728 Implements ticket 10060.
15729 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
15730 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
15731 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
15733 o Minor features (controller):
15734 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
15735 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
15736 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
15737 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
15738 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
15741 o Minor features (build):
15742 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
15743 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
15744 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
15745 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
15746 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
15747 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
15748 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
15750 o Minor features (testing):
15751 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
15752 the unit test scripts.
15753 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
15754 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
15755 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
15756 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
15758 o Minor features (log messages):
15759 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
15760 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
15761 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
15762 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
15763 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
15764 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
15765 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
15766 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
15767 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
15768 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15770 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15771 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
15772 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
15773 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
15774 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
15775 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
15776 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
15777 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
15778 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
15779 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
15781 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
15782 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
15783 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
15784 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
15787 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15788 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
15789 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
15790 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
15791 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
15793 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15794 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
15795 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
15796 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
15797 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
15798 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
15799 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
15801 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
15802 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
15803 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
15804 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
15805 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
15806 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
15807 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15808 Reported by "mr-4".
15809 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
15810 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
15811 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
15812 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15814 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
15815 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
15816 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
15817 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
15818 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
15819 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
15820 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
15821 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
15822 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
15823 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
15824 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15826 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15827 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
15828 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
15829 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
15830 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
15831 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
15832 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
15833 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
15834 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
15835 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
15837 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
15838 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
15839 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
15840 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
15843 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15844 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
15845 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
15846 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
15847 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
15848 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
15850 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
15851 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15853 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15854 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
15855 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
15856 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15858 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15859 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
15860 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
15861 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15862 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
15863 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
15864 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
15865 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
15866 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
15867 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
15868 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
15869 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
15870 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
15871 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
15873 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
15874 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
15875 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15876 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
15877 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
15878 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
15880 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15881 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
15882 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15883 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
15884 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
15885 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
15886 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
15887 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
15888 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
15889 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15890 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
15891 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15893 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15894 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
15895 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
15896 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
15897 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
15898 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15899 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
15900 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
15901 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
15902 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
15903 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
15904 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
15905 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
15906 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
15907 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
15908 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
15911 o Removed code and features:
15912 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
15913 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
15914 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
15915 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
15916 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
15917 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
15919 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
15920 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
15921 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
15922 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
15923 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
15924 part of a fix for bug 10841.
15926 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15927 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
15928 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
15929 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
15930 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
15931 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
15932 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
15933 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
15934 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
15935 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
15936 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
15939 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
15940 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
15941 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
15942 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
15943 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15945 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
15946 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
15947 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
15948 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
15949 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
15950 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
15951 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
15954 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
15955 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
15956 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
15959 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
15960 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
15961 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
15962 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
15963 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
15964 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
15965 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
15967 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
15968 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
15971 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
15972 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
15973 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
15974 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
15975 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
15976 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
15977 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
15978 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
15980 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
15981 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15982 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
15983 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
15984 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
15985 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
15988 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
15989 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15990 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
15991 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
15992 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
15995 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
15996 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
15997 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
15998 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
15999 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
16000 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
16001 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
16002 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
16004 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
16005 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
16006 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
16007 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
16008 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
16009 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
16010 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
16011 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
16012 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
16013 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
16014 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
16015 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
16016 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
16017 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
16018 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
16019 security, and privacy fixes.
16022 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
16023 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16024 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
16025 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
16028 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
16029 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
16030 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
16031 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
16032 them to solve bug 6033.)
16035 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
16036 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
16037 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
16038 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
16039 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
16040 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16041 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
16042 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
16044 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
16045 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
16046 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
16047 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16049 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
16050 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
16051 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16052 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
16053 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
16054 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
16055 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
16056 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
16057 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
16058 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16059 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
16060 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16062 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
16063 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
16064 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
16065 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
16066 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
16067 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16068 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
16069 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
16070 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16071 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
16072 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
16073 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
16074 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
16075 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
16076 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
16077 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
16080 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
16081 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
16082 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
16083 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
16084 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
16085 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
16086 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
16087 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
16088 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
16089 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
16090 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
16091 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
16092 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
16093 Implements part of proposal 222.
16095 o Minor features (other):
16096 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
16097 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
16098 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
16099 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
16100 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
16101 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
16102 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
16103 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
16104 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16106 o Documentation fixes:
16107 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
16108 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
16109 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
16110 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
16111 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
16112 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
16115 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
16116 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
16117 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
16118 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
16119 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
16120 release of the new branch.
16122 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
16123 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
16124 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
16126 o Major features (security):
16127 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
16128 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
16129 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
16130 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
16131 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
16132 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
16133 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
16134 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
16135 Google Summer of Code.
16136 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
16137 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
16138 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
16139 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
16140 them to solve bug 6033.)
16142 o Major features (other):
16143 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
16144 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
16145 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
16146 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
16147 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
16149 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
16150 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
16151 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
16152 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
16153 Implements ticket 8530.
16154 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
16155 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
16158 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16159 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16160 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16161 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16162 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16163 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16164 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
16165 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
16166 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16167 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
16168 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
16169 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
16170 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16173 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
16174 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
16175 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
16176 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
16177 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
16178 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
16179 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
16180 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
16181 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
16182 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
16186 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
16187 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
16188 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
16189 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
16190 invoking the other functions it calls.
16191 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
16192 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
16193 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
16194 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
16196 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
16197 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
16198 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
16199 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
16200 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
16201 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
16202 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
16203 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
16204 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
16205 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
16206 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
16207 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
16208 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
16209 Implements part of proposal 222.
16211 o Minor features (config options):
16212 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
16213 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
16214 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
16215 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
16216 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
16217 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
16218 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
16219 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
16220 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
16221 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
16222 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
16223 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
16224 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
16225 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
16226 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
16227 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
16228 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
16231 o Minor features (build):
16232 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
16233 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
16234 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
16235 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
16236 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
16239 o Minor features (other):
16240 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
16241 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
16242 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
16243 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
16244 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16245 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
16246 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
16247 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
16248 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
16249 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
16250 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
16251 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
16252 Closes ticket 8109.
16253 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16256 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
16257 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
16258 bugfix on every released Tor.
16259 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
16260 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
16261 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16262 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
16263 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
16264 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
16266 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
16267 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
16268 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
16269 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16270 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
16271 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
16272 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
16273 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16275 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
16276 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
16277 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
16278 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
16279 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
16281 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
16282 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16284 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
16285 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
16286 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
16288 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
16289 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
16290 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
16291 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
16292 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16294 o Minor code improvements:
16295 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
16296 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
16298 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
16299 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
16300 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
16301 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
16302 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16304 o Removed features:
16305 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
16306 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
16307 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
16308 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
16310 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16311 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
16312 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
16313 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
16314 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
16315 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
16316 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
16317 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
16318 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
16319 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
16320 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
16321 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
16322 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
16323 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
16324 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
16325 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
16328 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
16329 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16330 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
16331 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
16332 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
16333 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
16334 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
16337 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
16338 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
16339 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
16340 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
16341 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
16342 Implements ticket 9574.
16345 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
16346 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
16347 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16348 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
16349 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
16350 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
16351 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
16352 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
16353 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16354 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
16355 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
16356 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
16360 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
16361 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
16362 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
16363 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
16365 o Minor fixes (config options):
16366 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
16367 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
16368 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
16369 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
16370 message is logged at notice, not at info.
16371 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
16372 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
16373 or we just won't work.)
16376 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
16377 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
16378 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
16379 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16382 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
16383 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16384 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
16387 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
16388 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
16389 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16390 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
16391 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16392 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
16393 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
16395 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
16396 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16397 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
16398 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
16401 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
16402 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
16403 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16404 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
16405 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
16406 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
16407 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
16408 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
16409 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
16410 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
16411 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16412 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
16413 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16416 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16419 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
16420 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16421 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
16422 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
16425 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
16426 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
16427 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16430 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
16431 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
16432 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
16435 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
16436 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
16437 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16440 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
16441 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
16442 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
16443 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
16444 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
16445 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
16447 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
16448 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
16449 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
16450 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
16451 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
16452 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16454 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
16455 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
16456 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16459 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
16460 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
16461 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
16462 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
16463 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
16465 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
16466 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
16467 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
16468 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
16469 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
16470 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
16471 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
16473 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
16474 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
16475 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
16477 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
16478 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
16482 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
16483 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
16484 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
16486 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
16487 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
16488 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
16489 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
16490 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
16491 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
16493 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
16494 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
16495 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
16496 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
16497 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
16498 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
16499 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16502 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
16503 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
16504 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
16505 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
16506 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
16507 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
16508 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16509 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
16510 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16511 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
16512 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
16513 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16514 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
16515 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
16517 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
16518 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
16519 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
16520 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
16523 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16524 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
16525 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
16526 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
16527 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
16528 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
16530 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
16531 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
16535 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
16536 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
16537 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
16538 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
16539 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
16540 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
16541 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16543 o Removed documentation:
16544 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
16545 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
16547 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16548 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
16549 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
16550 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
16553 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
16554 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
16555 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
16556 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
16557 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
16558 variety of other issues.
16561 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
16562 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
16563 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
16564 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
16565 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
16566 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16567 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
16568 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
16570 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
16571 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
16572 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
16574 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
16575 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
16576 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
16577 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16578 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
16579 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
16580 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16582 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16583 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
16584 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
16585 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
16586 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
16587 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
16588 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
16589 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16590 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
16591 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
16592 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
16593 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
16594 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16595 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
16596 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
16597 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
16598 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
16599 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
16600 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
16601 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
16602 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16604 o Major bugfixes (other):
16605 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
16606 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
16607 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
16608 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16611 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
16612 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
16613 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
16614 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
16616 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
16617 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
16619 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16621 o Minor features (build):
16622 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
16623 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
16625 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
16626 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
16628 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
16629 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
16630 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
16633 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16634 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
16635 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16636 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16637 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
16638 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
16639 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16640 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
16641 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
16642 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16643 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
16644 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
16645 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
16646 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
16649 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
16650 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
16651 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
16652 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
16653 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
16654 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
16655 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
16656 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
16657 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
16658 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
16659 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
16660 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
16661 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
16662 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16663 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16665 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16666 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
16667 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16668 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
16669 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
16670 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
16671 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
16672 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16673 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
16674 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
16675 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
16676 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
16677 Should help resolve bug 8235.
16678 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
16679 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
16680 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
16681 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16683 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
16684 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
16685 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
16686 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
16687 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
16688 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
16689 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
16690 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
16693 o Minor bugfixes (config):
16694 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
16695 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
16697 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
16698 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
16699 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16700 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
16701 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
16702 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
16703 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16704 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
16705 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
16706 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16707 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
16708 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
16709 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16710 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
16711 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
16714 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
16715 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
16716 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
16717 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
16718 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
16719 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
16720 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
16721 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
16723 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
16724 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
16725 or at least make it more diagnosable.
16726 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
16727 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
16728 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
16729 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16731 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
16732 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
16733 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
16734 the relaxed timeout log message.
16735 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
16736 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
16737 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
16739 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
16740 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
16741 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16742 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
16743 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16744 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
16745 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
16748 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
16749 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
16750 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
16751 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
16752 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16753 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
16754 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
16755 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
16756 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
16757 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
16758 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
16759 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
16760 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16761 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
16762 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
16763 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
16764 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16766 o Documentation fixes:
16767 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
16768 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
16769 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
16770 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16771 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
16772 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
16773 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
16774 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
16777 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
16778 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
16782 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
16783 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
16784 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
16785 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
16787 o Major features (directory authorities):
16788 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
16789 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
16790 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
16791 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
16792 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
16793 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
16794 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
16795 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
16796 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
16797 Implements ticket 8151.
16799 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16800 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
16801 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
16802 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
16803 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
16805 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16806 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
16807 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
16808 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
16809 whether authentication information is present, causing all
16810 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
16811 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
16813 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
16814 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
16815 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
16816 bugs 1913 and 1992.
16817 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
16818 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
16819 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
16820 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
16821 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
16822 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
16823 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
16824 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
16825 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
16826 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
16827 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
16828 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
16829 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
16830 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
16831 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
16832 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
16833 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
16834 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
16837 o Minor features (portability):
16838 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
16839 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16840 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
16841 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
16842 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
16843 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
16844 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
16845 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16847 o Minor features (other):
16848 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
16849 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
16850 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
16851 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
16852 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
16853 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
16854 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
16855 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
16857 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16859 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
16860 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
16861 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
16862 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
16863 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
16864 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16865 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
16866 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
16867 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
16868 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
16870 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
16871 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
16872 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
16873 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16875 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16876 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
16877 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
16878 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
16879 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
16880 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
16881 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
16883 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
16884 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
16885 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
16886 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
16887 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
16889 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
16890 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
16891 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
16892 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
16894 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
16895 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
16896 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
16899 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
16900 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
16901 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16902 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
16904 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
16905 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16906 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
16907 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16909 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
16910 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
16911 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
16912 this is CID 718634.
16913 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
16914 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
16915 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
16916 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
16918 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
16919 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
16920 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16921 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
16922 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
16923 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
16924 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16926 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16927 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
16931 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
16932 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
16933 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
16934 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
16935 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
16938 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
16939 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
16940 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
16941 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16943 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
16944 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
16945 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
16949 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
16950 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
16951 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
16952 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
16953 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
16954 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
16955 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
16956 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
16957 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
16958 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
16959 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
16960 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
16961 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
16964 o Major features (relay):
16965 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
16966 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
16967 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
16968 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
16969 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
16970 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
16971 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
16973 o Major features (portability):
16974 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
16975 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
16976 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
16977 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
16978 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16981 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
16982 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
16983 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
16984 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
16985 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
16986 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
16988 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
16989 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
16990 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
16991 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
16992 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
16993 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
16994 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
16995 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
16997 o Minor features (path selection):
16998 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
16999 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17000 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17001 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17002 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
17003 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
17004 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
17005 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
17006 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
17007 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
17008 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
17009 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
17010 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
17011 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
17012 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
17013 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
17014 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
17015 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
17016 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
17018 o Minor features (log messages):
17019 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
17020 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
17021 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
17022 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
17025 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
17026 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
17027 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17028 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
17029 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
17030 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
17031 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
17032 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
17033 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
17034 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17035 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
17036 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17038 o Build improvements:
17039 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
17040 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
17041 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
17042 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
17043 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
17044 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
17045 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
17046 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
17047 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
17048 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
17049 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
17050 than to perform erroneously.
17052 o Removed features:
17053 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
17054 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
17055 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
17057 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
17058 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
17059 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
17062 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17063 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
17065 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
17066 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
17070 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
17071 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
17072 work more robustly.
17075 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
17076 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
17077 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
17081 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
17082 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
17083 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
17084 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
17087 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
17088 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
17089 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
17090 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
17091 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
17092 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
17093 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
17094 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
17095 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
17096 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
17097 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
17098 closes ticket 7199.
17100 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
17101 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
17102 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
17103 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
17104 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
17105 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
17106 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
17107 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
17108 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
17109 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
17110 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
17112 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
17113 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
17114 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
17116 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
17117 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
17118 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
17120 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
17122 o Major features (better link encryption):
17123 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
17124 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
17125 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
17126 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
17127 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
17128 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
17131 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
17132 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
17133 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
17134 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
17135 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
17136 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
17137 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
17139 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
17140 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
17141 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
17142 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
17144 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
17147 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
17148 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
17149 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17152 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
17153 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
17154 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
17155 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
17156 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
17157 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
17158 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
17159 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17160 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17162 o Minor features (testing):
17163 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
17164 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
17165 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
17167 o Minor features (path bias detection):
17168 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
17169 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
17170 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
17171 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
17172 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
17173 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
17174 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
17175 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
17176 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
17177 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
17178 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
17179 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
17180 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
17181 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
17182 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
17183 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
17184 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
17185 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
17186 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
17187 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
17188 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
17189 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
17190 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
17191 detection capability loss.
17193 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17194 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
17195 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
17196 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
17197 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17198 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
17199 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
17200 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
17203 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17204 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
17205 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
17206 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
17207 and the different handshakes it supports.
17208 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
17209 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
17210 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
17211 any encoding is overkill.
17214 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
17215 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
17216 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
17217 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
17218 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
17219 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
17220 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
17221 and fixes a variety of other issues.
17223 o Major features (client resilience):
17224 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
17225 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
17226 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
17227 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
17228 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
17229 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
17230 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
17231 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
17232 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
17233 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
17234 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
17235 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
17236 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
17237 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
17238 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
17240 o Major features (IPv6):
17241 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
17242 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
17243 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
17244 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
17245 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
17246 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
17247 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
17248 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
17250 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
17251 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
17253 o Major features (geoip database):
17254 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
17255 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
17256 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
17257 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
17258 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
17259 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
17260 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
17261 Country database, as modified above.
17263 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
17264 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
17265 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
17266 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
17267 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
17268 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
17269 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
17270 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
17271 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
17272 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
17273 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
17274 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
17275 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
17276 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
17277 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
17278 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
17279 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
17282 o Major bugfixes (other):
17283 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
17284 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
17285 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
17286 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
17287 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
17288 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
17289 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
17290 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
17292 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
17293 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
17296 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
17297 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
17298 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
17299 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
17300 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
17301 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
17302 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
17303 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
17305 o Minor features (IPv6):
17306 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
17307 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
17308 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
17309 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
17310 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
17311 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
17312 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
17313 connect to the wrong addresses.
17314 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
17315 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
17316 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
17317 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
17321 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
17322 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
17323 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
17324 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
17325 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
17326 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
17327 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
17329 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
17330 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
17331 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
17334 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
17335 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
17337 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17338 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
17339 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
17340 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
17341 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
17344 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
17345 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
17346 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
17347 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
17348 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
17349 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
17350 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
17351 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
17353 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
17354 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
17355 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
17356 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
17357 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
17358 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
17359 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
17360 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
17361 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
17362 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
17363 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
17366 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
17367 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
17368 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
17369 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
17370 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
17371 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
17372 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
17373 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
17374 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
17375 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
17378 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
17379 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
17383 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
17384 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
17385 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
17386 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
17389 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
17390 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
17392 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
17393 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
17394 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
17395 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
17396 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
17397 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
17398 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
17399 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
17400 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
17401 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
17404 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
17406 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
17407 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
17408 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
17409 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
17410 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
17413 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
17414 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
17415 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17416 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
17417 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
17419 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
17420 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17421 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
17422 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
17423 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
17424 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
17425 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
17427 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
17428 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17429 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
17430 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
17431 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
17432 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17433 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
17434 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17436 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17437 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
17438 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
17439 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
17440 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
17441 present the same extensions.)
17444 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
17445 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
17446 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
17447 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
17448 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
17450 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17451 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
17452 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
17453 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
17455 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
17456 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
17457 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
17458 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17460 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17461 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
17462 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
17463 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
17464 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
17465 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
17466 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
17467 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
17468 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17470 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
17471 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
17472 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
17473 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
17474 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17477 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
17478 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
17479 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
17481 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17482 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
17484 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
17485 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
17489 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
17490 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
17491 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
17492 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
17495 o Major bugfixes (security):
17496 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
17497 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
17498 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
17500 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
17501 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
17502 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
17503 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17506 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
17507 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
17508 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
17509 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
17510 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
17511 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
17512 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
17513 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17516 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
17517 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
17518 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
17519 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17522 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
17523 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
17524 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
17525 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
17526 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
17527 scheduling algorithms.
17529 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17530 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
17531 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
17533 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17534 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
17535 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
17536 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
17537 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
17538 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
17539 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
17540 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
17541 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
17542 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
17543 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
17545 o Internal abstraction features:
17546 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
17547 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
17548 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
17549 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
17550 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
17551 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
17552 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
17553 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
17554 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
17555 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
17556 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
17557 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
17558 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
17559 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
17560 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
17561 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
17562 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
17564 o Required libraries:
17565 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
17566 strongly recommended.
17569 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
17570 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
17571 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
17572 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
17573 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
17574 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
17575 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
17576 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
17577 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
17579 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
17580 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
17581 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
17582 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
17583 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
17584 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
17585 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
17586 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17587 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
17588 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
17589 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17590 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17591 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17592 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17593 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17596 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
17597 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
17598 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
17599 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
17600 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
17601 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
17602 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
17603 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
17604 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
17605 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
17606 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
17607 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
17608 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
17609 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
17610 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17611 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
17612 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
17613 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
17614 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
17616 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
17617 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
17618 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
17619 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
17620 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
17621 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
17622 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
17625 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
17626 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
17627 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
17628 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
17630 o New directory authorities:
17631 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
17632 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
17634 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
17635 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
17636 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
17637 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
17638 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
17639 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
17640 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
17641 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
17642 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
17643 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
17644 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
17647 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
17648 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
17649 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
17651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17652 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
17653 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
17654 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17655 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
17656 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
17657 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17658 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
17659 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17662 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
17663 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
17664 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
17665 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
17666 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
17667 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
17668 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
17669 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
17670 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
17671 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17672 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17673 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17674 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
17675 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
17676 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
17677 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
17678 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
17680 o Documentation fixes:
17681 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
17684 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
17685 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
17686 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
17687 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
17690 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17691 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17692 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17695 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
17696 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
17697 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
17698 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
17699 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
17700 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
17701 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
17702 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17704 o Security features:
17705 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
17706 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
17707 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
17708 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
17709 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
17710 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
17711 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
17712 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
17713 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
17717 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
17718 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
17719 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
17722 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
17723 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
17724 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
17725 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
17726 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17727 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
17728 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
17729 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
17730 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
17731 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
17732 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17733 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
17734 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
17735 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
17737 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
17738 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17739 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
17740 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
17741 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17743 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
17744 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
17745 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
17746 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17747 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
17748 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
17749 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17750 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
17751 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
17752 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
17753 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
17754 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
17755 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
17756 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17757 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
17758 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
17759 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
17760 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
17761 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
17762 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
17764 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17765 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
17766 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
17767 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
17768 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
17769 testable, and a little less fragile too.
17770 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
17771 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17773 o Documentation fixes:
17774 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
17775 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
17779 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
17780 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
17784 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17785 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17786 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17789 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
17790 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
17794 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
17795 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
17799 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
17800 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
17801 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
17802 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
17803 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
17804 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
17805 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
17809 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
17810 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
17811 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
17812 log messages less noisy.
17815 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
17816 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
17820 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
17821 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
17822 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
17823 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
17824 last time we raised it).
17827 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
17828 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
17830 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
17831 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
17832 part of ticket 6736.
17833 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
17834 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
17835 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
17839 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
17840 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
17841 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17842 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
17843 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
17845 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
17846 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17847 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
17848 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
17849 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17850 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
17851 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
17852 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17853 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
17854 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17855 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
17856 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17858 o Removed features:
17859 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
17860 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
17861 bunch of compatibility code.
17863 o Code refactoring:
17864 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
17865 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
17866 the ORPort and the DirPort.
17869 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
17870 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
17871 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
17872 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
17874 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
17875 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
17876 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
17878 o Major features (bridges):
17879 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
17880 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
17881 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
17884 o Major features (IPv6):
17885 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
17886 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
17887 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
17888 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
17889 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
17890 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
17891 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
17892 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
17893 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
17895 o Major features (build):
17896 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
17897 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
17898 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
17899 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
17900 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
17901 fixes by Jim Meyering.
17902 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
17903 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
17904 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
17906 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
17907 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
17908 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
17909 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
17910 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
17911 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
17912 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
17913 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
17914 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
17915 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
17916 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
17918 o Minor features (streamlining);
17919 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
17920 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
17922 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
17923 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
17924 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
17925 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
17926 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
17927 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17929 o Minor features (controller):
17930 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
17932 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
17933 Implements ticket 4971.
17935 o Minor features (IPv6):
17936 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
17937 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
17938 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
17939 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
17940 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
17942 o Minor features (log messages):
17943 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
17944 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
17945 Resolves ticket 6758.
17946 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
17947 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
17948 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
17949 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17950 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
17951 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
17952 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
17954 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
17955 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
17956 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
17957 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
17958 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
17961 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17962 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
17963 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
17964 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
17965 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
17967 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
17968 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
17969 Implements ticket 5529.
17970 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
17971 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
17972 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
17973 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
17974 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
17975 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
17976 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
17977 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
17978 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
17979 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
17981 o New requirements:
17982 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
17983 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
17984 from a source distribution.)
17987 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
17988 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
17989 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
17990 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
17991 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
17992 and cleans up other smaller issues.
17994 o Major bugfixes (security):
17995 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
17996 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
17997 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
17998 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
17999 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18000 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
18001 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
18002 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
18003 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
18004 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
18005 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
18006 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18007 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
18008 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
18009 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
18010 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
18014 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
18015 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
18016 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
18017 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18018 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
18019 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
18020 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
18021 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
18022 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
18023 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18026 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
18027 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
18028 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
18029 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
18030 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18031 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
18032 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
18033 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
18034 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
18035 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
18036 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
18038 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
18039 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
18040 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
18042 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
18043 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
18044 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
18045 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
18046 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18047 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
18048 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
18049 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
18050 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18051 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
18052 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18053 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
18054 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
18055 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
18058 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18059 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
18060 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
18061 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
18062 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18063 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
18064 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
18065 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
18066 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
18067 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
18068 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
18069 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
18070 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
18071 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
18072 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
18075 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
18076 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
18077 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
18078 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
18079 Resolves ticket 6732.
18082 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
18083 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
18084 attack that could in theory leak path information.
18087 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
18088 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
18089 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18090 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
18091 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
18092 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
18093 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
18094 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
18095 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
18096 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
18097 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
18098 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
18099 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
18100 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
18103 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
18104 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18105 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
18106 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
18109 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
18110 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
18111 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18112 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
18113 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
18114 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18115 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
18116 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
18117 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
18118 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
18119 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
18120 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
18121 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
18122 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
18123 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
18124 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
18125 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
18128 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
18129 a little more useful.
18130 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
18131 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18132 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
18133 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
18134 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
18135 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
18136 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
18139 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
18140 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18141 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
18142 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18143 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
18144 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
18148 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
18149 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
18150 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
18151 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
18152 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
18155 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
18156 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
18157 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
18160 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
18162 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
18164 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18165 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
18166 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
18167 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
18168 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
18171 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
18172 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18173 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
18174 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
18175 since the beginning of Tor.
18178 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
18179 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
18180 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
18181 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
18182 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
18183 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
18184 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
18185 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18186 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
18187 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
18190 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
18191 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18194 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
18195 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18196 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
18197 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
18200 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
18201 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18202 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
18203 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
18204 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
18205 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18207 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18208 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
18209 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
18210 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
18211 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
18212 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
18213 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18214 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
18215 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
18216 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
18217 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
18218 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
18219 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
18220 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18221 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
18222 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
18223 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18224 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
18225 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18227 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18228 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
18229 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
18231 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
18232 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18233 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
18234 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
18236 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
18237 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18238 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
18239 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18240 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
18241 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
18242 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18243 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
18244 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18245 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
18246 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18247 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
18248 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
18249 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18250 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
18251 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
18254 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
18255 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
18256 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
18257 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
18258 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
18261 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
18262 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
18263 options. Closes bug 4748.
18266 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
18267 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
18268 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
18269 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
18270 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
18274 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
18275 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
18277 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
18278 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
18279 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
18280 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
18281 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
18282 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
18283 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
18284 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
18285 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
18288 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
18289 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
18290 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
18291 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
18292 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
18293 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
18294 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
18295 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18298 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
18299 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
18300 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
18301 case for flushing marked connections.
18302 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
18303 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18304 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
18305 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
18306 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
18307 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
18308 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18309 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
18310 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18311 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
18312 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
18313 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
18314 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18315 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
18316 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
18317 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
18318 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18319 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
18320 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18321 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
18322 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
18323 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
18324 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18325 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
18326 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
18328 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
18329 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18330 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
18334 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
18335 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
18336 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
18337 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
18338 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
18339 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
18340 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
18341 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
18342 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
18343 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
18344 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
18345 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
18346 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
18347 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
18348 Addresses ticket 5458.
18349 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18351 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18352 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
18353 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
18356 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
18357 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
18358 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
18362 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
18363 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
18364 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
18365 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
18366 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
18367 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
18368 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18369 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
18370 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
18371 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
18372 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18375 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
18376 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18379 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
18380 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
18383 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
18384 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
18385 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
18386 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
18387 that get us closer to a release candidate.
18389 o Major bugfixes (general):
18390 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
18391 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
18392 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
18393 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
18394 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
18395 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
18396 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18397 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
18398 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
18400 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
18401 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
18402 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
18403 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
18406 o Major bugfixes (clients):
18407 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
18408 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
18409 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
18410 which introduced predicted ports.
18411 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
18412 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
18413 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
18414 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18415 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
18416 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
18417 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
18418 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
18419 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
18420 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
18421 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18422 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
18423 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
18425 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18426 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
18427 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
18428 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
18429 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
18430 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18431 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
18432 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
18433 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
18434 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
18435 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
18439 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
18440 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
18441 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
18442 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
18443 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
18444 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
18445 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
18446 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
18447 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
18448 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
18449 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
18450 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
18451 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
18452 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
18454 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
18455 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
18456 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
18457 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
18458 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
18459 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
18460 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
18461 sure. Closes bug 5139.
18462 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
18463 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
18464 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
18465 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
18466 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
18467 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
18468 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18470 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
18471 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
18472 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
18473 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
18474 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
18475 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
18476 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
18477 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
18478 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
18479 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
18480 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
18481 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
18482 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
18483 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
18484 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
18485 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
18486 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
18487 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18488 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
18489 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
18491 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18492 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
18493 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
18494 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
18495 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
18496 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
18497 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18498 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
18499 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
18500 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
18501 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
18502 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
18503 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
18505 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
18506 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18507 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
18508 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
18510 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
18511 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
18512 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18513 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
18514 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
18515 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18516 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
18517 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18518 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
18519 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
18521 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
18522 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
18523 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
18525 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18526 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
18527 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
18528 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
18529 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
18530 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
18531 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
18532 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
18533 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
18534 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
18535 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
18536 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18537 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
18538 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
18539 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
18540 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18541 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
18542 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
18543 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
18544 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
18546 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
18547 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
18548 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18549 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
18550 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
18551 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
18553 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
18554 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
18555 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
18557 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
18558 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
18559 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18560 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18561 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
18562 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18564 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18565 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
18566 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
18568 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
18569 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
18570 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18571 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
18572 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
18573 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18574 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
18575 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
18576 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
18577 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18578 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
18579 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
18580 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
18581 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
18582 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
18583 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
18585 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
18586 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
18587 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18588 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
18589 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
18590 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18591 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
18592 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18593 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
18594 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18595 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
18596 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18597 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
18600 o Documentation fixes:
18601 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
18602 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
18603 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
18604 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
18605 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
18606 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
18609 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
18610 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
18614 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
18615 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
18616 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
18617 and fixes several crash bugs.
18619 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
18620 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
18621 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
18622 those packages and upgrade anyway.
18624 o Directory authority changes:
18625 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
18626 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
18630 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
18631 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
18632 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
18633 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
18634 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
18635 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
18636 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
18637 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
18638 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
18639 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
18640 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
18641 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
18642 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
18643 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
18644 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
18645 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
18646 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
18647 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
18648 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
18649 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
18650 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
18651 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
18652 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
18653 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
18654 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
18655 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
18656 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
18659 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
18660 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18661 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
18662 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
18664 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
18665 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
18667 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
18668 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
18669 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
18670 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
18671 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
18672 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
18673 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
18674 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
18677 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
18678 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
18679 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
18680 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
18681 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
18682 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
18683 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
18684 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
18685 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
18686 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
18687 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
18688 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
18689 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
18690 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
18691 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
18692 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
18693 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
18694 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
18695 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
18696 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
18697 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
18698 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
18699 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
18700 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
18701 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18702 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
18703 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
18704 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
18705 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
18706 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
18707 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
18708 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
18709 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18710 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
18711 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18712 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
18713 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
18714 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
18715 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
18716 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18717 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
18718 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18719 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
18720 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
18721 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
18722 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18724 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18725 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
18726 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
18727 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
18728 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
18729 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
18730 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
18731 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
18732 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
18733 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
18734 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18735 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
18736 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18737 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
18738 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
18741 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
18742 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
18743 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
18744 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
18746 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18749 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
18750 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
18751 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
18752 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
18753 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
18754 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
18755 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
18758 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
18759 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
18760 the development branch build on Windows again.
18762 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18763 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
18764 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
18765 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
18766 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
18767 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
18768 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
18769 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
18770 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
18771 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
18772 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
18773 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
18774 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18775 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
18776 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
18778 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18779 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
18780 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
18781 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18782 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
18783 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18784 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
18785 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18786 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
18787 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
18788 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
18789 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18792 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
18793 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
18794 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
18795 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
18796 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
18797 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
18798 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
18799 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
18800 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
18802 o Removed features:
18803 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
18804 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
18805 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
18806 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
18810 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
18811 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
18812 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
18813 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
18815 o Directory authority changes:
18816 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
18820 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
18821 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18822 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
18823 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
18825 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
18826 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
18827 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
18828 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
18829 documents entirely.
18830 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
18831 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
18832 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18834 o Major features (performance):
18835 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
18836 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
18837 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
18838 much faster than other AES implementations.
18840 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
18841 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
18842 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
18843 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
18844 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
18845 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
18846 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
18847 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
18848 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
18849 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
18850 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18851 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
18852 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
18853 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
18854 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18855 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
18856 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
18857 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18859 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
18860 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
18861 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
18862 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18863 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
18864 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18865 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
18866 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
18867 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
18869 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
18870 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
18871 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18872 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
18873 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
18874 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
18877 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
18878 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
18879 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
18880 please let us know about it.
18881 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
18882 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
18883 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
18884 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
18885 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18886 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18887 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
18888 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
18890 o Default torrc changes:
18891 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
18892 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
18894 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
18895 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
18896 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
18899 o Removed features:
18900 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
18901 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
18902 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
18903 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
18905 o Code refactoring:
18906 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
18907 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
18908 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
18909 it would be a bad idea to start.
18912 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
18913 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
18914 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
18915 that get us closer to a release candidate.
18917 o Directory authority changes:
18918 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
18921 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
18922 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
18923 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
18924 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
18925 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
18926 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
18927 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
18928 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
18929 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
18930 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
18931 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
18932 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
18933 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
18934 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
18935 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
18936 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
18938 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
18939 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
18940 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
18941 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
18942 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
18943 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18944 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
18945 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
18946 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18947 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
18948 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
18949 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
18951 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
18952 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
18953 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18954 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
18955 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
18957 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18958 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
18959 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
18960 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
18961 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
18962 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
18963 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
18964 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
18965 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
18966 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
18967 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
18968 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
18969 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18970 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
18971 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18972 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
18973 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
18974 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
18975 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
18976 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
18977 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
18978 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
18981 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18982 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
18983 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18984 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
18985 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
18986 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
18987 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
18988 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
18989 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18990 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
18991 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
18992 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
18993 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
18994 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
18995 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
18996 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
18997 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
19000 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19001 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19002 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19005 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
19006 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
19007 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
19008 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
19011 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19012 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19014 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
19015 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
19016 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
19017 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19018 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
19019 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
19020 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
19021 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19022 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
19023 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
19024 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
19025 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19028 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
19029 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
19030 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
19031 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
19032 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
19033 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
19034 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19037 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19038 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19039 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19040 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19041 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
19042 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
19043 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
19044 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
19045 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
19046 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
19048 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
19049 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
19050 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
19051 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
19052 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19053 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19054 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19055 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
19056 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
19059 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19060 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
19061 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
19065 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
19066 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
19067 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
19068 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
19069 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
19070 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
19073 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
19074 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
19075 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
19076 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
19077 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
19078 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
19079 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
19080 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
19082 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19083 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
19084 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
19085 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
19086 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
19087 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
19088 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
19089 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
19091 o Major security workaround:
19092 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19093 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19094 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19095 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19096 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19097 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19098 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19099 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19100 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19101 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19102 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19105 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19106 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19107 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19108 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19109 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19110 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19111 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19112 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19113 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
19114 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
19115 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
19116 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
19117 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
19119 o Minor features (controller):
19120 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19121 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19122 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19123 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19124 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19125 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19126 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19127 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19128 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19130 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19131 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19132 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19133 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19134 part of ticket 3457.
19135 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19136 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19137 circuit-status' control-port command.
19139 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19140 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19141 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19142 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19143 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19145 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
19146 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
19147 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
19148 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
19149 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
19150 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
19151 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
19153 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19154 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19156 o Minor features (other):
19157 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19158 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19159 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19160 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19161 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
19162 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19163 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19164 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
19166 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
19167 them from the other auths.
19168 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
19169 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
19170 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
19171 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
19172 the 0.2.3.x series.
19173 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19175 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19176 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19177 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19178 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19179 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19180 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19181 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19182 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19183 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19184 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19185 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19186 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19187 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19188 be disabled using the new
19189 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19190 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19191 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
19192 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
19193 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
19194 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
19195 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
19196 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
19197 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
19198 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
19199 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
19200 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
19202 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
19203 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
19204 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
19207 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19208 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19209 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
19211 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19212 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19213 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
19214 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
19215 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19216 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
19217 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19219 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
19220 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19221 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19222 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19223 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
19224 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
19225 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
19226 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19228 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
19229 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
19230 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19231 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
19232 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
19233 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
19234 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
19235 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
19236 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
19239 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19240 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19241 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19242 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19243 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19244 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19245 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19246 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19247 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19248 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
19249 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
19250 accidentally been reverted.
19251 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
19252 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
19253 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
19254 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
19255 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
19256 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
19257 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19258 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
19259 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
19260 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19261 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
19262 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
19263 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
19264 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
19265 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19266 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
19267 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19268 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
19269 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19272 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19273 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19274 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19275 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19276 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19277 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19278 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19280 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19281 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
19282 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
19283 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
19284 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
19285 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
19286 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
19288 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
19289 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
19290 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
19291 invalid value, rather than just -1.
19292 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
19293 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
19294 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
19295 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
19296 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
19297 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
19298 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
19302 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
19303 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
19304 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19306 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19307 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19308 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19309 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19310 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19311 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19312 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19313 (which Tor does not do by default).
19315 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19316 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19317 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19318 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19319 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19321 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
19325 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19326 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19327 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19328 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19331 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
19332 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
19333 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
19334 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
19335 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
19336 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
19337 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
19338 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
19339 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
19340 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
19341 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19344 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19347 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
19348 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
19349 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
19351 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
19352 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
19353 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
19354 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
19355 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
19356 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
19357 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
19358 (which Tor does not do by default).
19360 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
19361 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
19362 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
19363 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
19364 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
19366 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
19367 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
19368 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
19371 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
19372 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
19373 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
19374 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
19375 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
19377 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
19378 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
19381 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19382 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19383 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19384 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19385 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19386 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19387 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19388 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19390 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19391 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19392 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19393 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19394 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19395 close based on processing a cell on it.
19396 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19397 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19398 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19399 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19400 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19401 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19402 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19403 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
19404 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
19405 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
19406 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19407 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19408 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19409 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19410 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
19413 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19414 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19415 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19416 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19417 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19418 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19419 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19421 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19422 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19423 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19424 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19425 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19426 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19427 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19428 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19429 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19430 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19431 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19432 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19433 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19434 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19435 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
19436 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19437 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
19438 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
19439 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19440 Reported by "troll_un".
19441 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19442 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19443 Reported by "troll_un".
19444 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19445 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19446 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19447 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19450 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19451 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19452 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19453 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19454 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19455 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19456 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19457 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19458 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19459 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19460 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19462 o Packaging changes:
19463 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19464 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19467 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
19468 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
19469 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
19470 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
19471 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
19473 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
19474 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
19476 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
19477 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19478 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19479 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19480 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19481 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
19482 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
19483 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
19484 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
19487 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19490 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
19491 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
19492 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
19493 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
19494 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
19495 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
19496 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
19499 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
19500 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
19501 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
19502 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
19503 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
19504 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
19505 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
19506 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
19507 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
19508 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
19509 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
19510 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19511 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
19512 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
19513 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
19514 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
19515 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
19516 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
19517 Resolves ticket 4526.
19518 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
19519 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
19520 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
19521 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
19522 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
19523 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
19524 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
19525 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
19526 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
19527 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
19528 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
19529 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
19530 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
19531 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
19532 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
19533 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
19536 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
19537 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
19538 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
19539 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
19540 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
19541 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
19542 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
19543 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
19544 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
19545 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19547 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
19548 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
19549 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
19550 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
19551 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
19552 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
19553 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
19554 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
19555 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19557 o Minor features (new/different config options):
19558 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19559 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19560 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19561 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19562 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19563 Implements issue 933.
19564 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19565 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19566 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19567 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19568 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19569 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19570 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19571 appending to the list.
19572 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19573 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19574 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19575 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19577 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
19578 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
19579 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
19580 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
19581 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
19582 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
19583 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
19584 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
19587 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19588 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19589 Resolves ticket 2474.
19590 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
19591 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
19592 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
19593 Required by fix for bug 3460.
19594 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
19595 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
19596 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
19597 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
19598 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
19599 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
19600 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
19601 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
19602 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
19604 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19605 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
19606 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
19608 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
19610 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
19611 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
19613 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
19614 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
19615 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
19616 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
19617 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19618 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19619 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19621 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
19622 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
19623 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19624 Reported by "troll_un".
19625 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
19626 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19627 Reported by "troll_un".
19628 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
19629 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
19630 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19631 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19633 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
19634 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
19636 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
19637 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
19638 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
19639 with help from wanoskarnet.
19640 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
19641 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19644 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
19645 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
19646 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
19647 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19649 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
19650 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
19651 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
19652 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
19653 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
19654 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
19655 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
19656 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
19659 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
19660 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
19661 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
19662 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
19663 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
19664 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
19665 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
19666 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
19667 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
19670 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
19671 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
19672 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
19673 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
19675 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
19676 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
19677 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
19678 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19679 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
19680 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
19681 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
19682 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
19683 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
19684 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
19685 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
19686 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
19687 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
19688 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
19689 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
19690 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
19691 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
19692 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
19693 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
19694 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
19695 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
19696 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
19697 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
19698 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
19701 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
19702 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
19703 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
19704 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
19705 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
19706 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19707 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
19708 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
19711 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19712 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
19713 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
19714 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
19715 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
19716 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
19717 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
19718 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
19719 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
19720 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19721 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19722 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19723 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19724 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19725 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19727 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19728 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19729 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
19730 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
19731 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19732 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
19733 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
19734 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19735 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
19736 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
19737 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
19738 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
19739 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
19740 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19741 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
19742 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
19743 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19745 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19746 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
19747 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
19748 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
19749 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19750 Found by frosty_un.
19751 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
19752 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
19753 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
19755 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
19756 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
19757 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
19759 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
19760 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
19762 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
19763 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19766 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
19767 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
19768 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
19769 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
19770 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
19771 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
19772 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
19773 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
19774 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
19775 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
19776 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19777 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19778 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19779 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19781 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
19782 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
19783 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19785 o Packaging changes:
19786 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
19787 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
19789 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19790 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
19791 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
19792 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
19793 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
19794 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
19795 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
19796 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
19797 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
19800 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
19802 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
19803 ./src/test/bench binary.
19804 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
19805 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
19808 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
19809 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
19810 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
19814 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
19815 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
19816 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
19817 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
19818 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
19819 close based on processing a cell on it.
19820 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
19821 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
19822 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19823 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
19824 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
19825 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
19826 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
19827 cells were introduced.
19830 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
19831 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
19834 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
19835 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
19836 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
19837 users. Everybody should upgrade.
19839 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
19840 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
19843 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
19844 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
19845 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
19846 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
19847 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
19848 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
19850 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19851 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19852 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19853 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19854 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19855 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
19856 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
19857 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
19858 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
19859 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
19860 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
19861 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
19862 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
19863 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
19864 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
19865 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
19866 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
19867 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
19870 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19871 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
19872 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
19873 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
19874 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
19875 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
19876 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
19877 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
19878 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
19879 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
19880 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
19881 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
19882 Partly fixes bug 3825.
19883 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
19884 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
19885 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
19886 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
19887 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
19888 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
19889 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
19891 o Major bugfixes (other):
19892 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
19893 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
19894 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
19895 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19896 Found by "frosty_un".
19897 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
19898 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
19899 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
19900 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
19901 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
19902 immensely in tracking this bug down.
19903 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
19904 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
19907 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19908 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
19909 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
19910 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
19911 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
19912 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
19913 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
19914 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
19915 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
19916 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
19917 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
19918 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
19919 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
19920 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19921 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
19922 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
19923 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
19924 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
19925 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
19926 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
19927 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
19929 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19930 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
19931 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
19932 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19933 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
19934 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
19935 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
19936 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
19937 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
19938 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
19939 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
19942 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
19943 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
19944 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
19945 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
19946 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
19947 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
19948 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
19949 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
19950 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
19951 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
19952 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
19953 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
19954 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
19955 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19957 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19958 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
19959 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
19960 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
19961 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
19962 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
19963 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
19964 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
19967 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
19968 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
19969 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
19971 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
19972 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
19973 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
19974 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
19975 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
19976 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
19977 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
19978 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
19979 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
19980 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
19981 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
19982 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
19983 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
19985 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
19986 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
19987 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
19988 currently connected to them.
19990 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
19991 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
19992 remain; see for example proposal 188.
19994 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
19995 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
19996 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
19997 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
19998 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
19999 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20000 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20001 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20002 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20003 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20004 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20005 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20006 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20007 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20008 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20009 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20010 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20011 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20014 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20015 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20016 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20017 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20018 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20019 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20020 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20021 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20022 when bridges were introduced.
20023 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20024 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20025 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20026 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20027 Found by "frosty_un".
20030 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20031 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20033 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20034 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20035 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20036 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20037 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20038 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20039 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20042 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20043 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20044 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20045 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20046 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20047 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20048 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20049 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20050 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20051 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20052 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20053 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20054 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20055 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20056 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20057 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20058 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20059 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20061 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20062 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20063 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20064 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20065 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20066 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20067 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20068 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20069 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20070 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20071 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20072 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20075 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20076 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20077 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20078 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20081 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20082 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20083 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20084 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20085 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20087 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20088 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20089 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20090 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20091 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20092 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20093 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20094 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20095 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20096 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20098 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20099 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20100 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20101 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20102 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20103 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20104 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20105 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20106 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20107 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20108 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20109 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20110 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20111 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20112 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20113 Found by "frosty_un".
20114 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20115 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20116 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20117 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20118 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20119 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20120 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20121 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20122 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20123 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20124 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20125 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20126 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20127 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20128 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20129 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20130 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20131 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20132 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20134 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20135 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20136 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20137 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20138 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20139 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20140 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20141 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20143 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20144 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20145 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20146 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20147 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20148 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20149 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20150 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20151 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20152 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20153 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20154 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20156 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20157 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20158 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20159 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20160 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20161 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20162 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20163 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20164 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20166 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20168 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20169 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20170 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20171 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20172 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20173 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20174 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20175 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20177 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20178 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20179 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20180 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20181 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20183 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20184 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20185 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20186 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20187 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20190 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
20191 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
20192 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
20193 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
20194 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
20197 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20198 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20199 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20200 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20201 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20202 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20203 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20204 when bridges were introduced.
20207 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
20208 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
20209 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20211 o Major features (networking):
20212 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20213 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20214 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20215 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20216 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20220 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20221 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20222 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20224 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
20225 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20226 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20227 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20228 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20230 o Minor features (diagnostics):
20231 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
20232 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
20235 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
20236 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
20237 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
20238 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
20239 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
20240 listed in the network consensus and republish.
20242 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
20243 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20244 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20245 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20247 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
20248 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20249 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20250 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20251 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20252 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20253 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20254 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20255 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20256 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20257 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20259 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
20260 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20261 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20262 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20263 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20264 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20265 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20266 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20267 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20268 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20270 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
20271 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20272 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20273 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20274 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20275 fixes part of bug 2442.
20276 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20277 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20278 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20280 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20281 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20282 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20283 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20284 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20286 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
20287 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20288 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20289 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20290 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20293 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
20294 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
20295 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
20299 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20300 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20301 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20302 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20303 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20304 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20305 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20308 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
20309 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
20310 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
20311 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
20312 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
20313 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
20314 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
20317 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
20318 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
20319 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
20320 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
20321 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
20322 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20323 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
20324 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
20325 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20327 o Code refactoring:
20328 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
20329 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
20332 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20333 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20334 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20335 reachable from Iran again.
20338 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20339 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20340 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20342 o Minor features (security):
20343 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20344 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20345 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20346 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20347 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20348 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20349 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20350 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20351 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20352 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20355 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20356 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20357 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20358 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20359 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20360 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20361 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20362 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20363 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20365 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20366 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20367 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20368 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20369 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20370 raised by bug 3898.
20371 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20372 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20373 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20374 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20375 fixes part of bug 2442.
20376 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20377 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20378 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20380 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20381 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20382 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20383 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20384 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20387 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20388 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20389 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20390 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20391 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20392 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20395 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
20396 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
20397 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
20398 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
20399 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
20400 bufferevent-based networking backend.
20402 o Major features (stream isolation):
20403 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20404 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20405 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20406 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20407 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20408 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20409 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20410 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20411 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20412 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20413 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20414 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20415 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20416 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20418 o Major features (other):
20419 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
20420 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
20421 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
20422 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
20423 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
20424 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
20425 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20426 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20427 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20428 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20429 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20430 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20431 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20433 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20434 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
20436 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
20437 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
20438 Fixes part of bug 3752.
20439 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
20440 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
20441 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
20442 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
20443 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
20444 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
20445 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
20446 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
20447 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
20448 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
20449 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
20450 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
20451 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
20452 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
20453 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
20454 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
20455 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
20457 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20458 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
20459 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
20460 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
20461 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
20462 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
20465 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
20466 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
20467 user. Implements ticket 1692.
20468 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
20469 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
20470 best copy data out of a buffer.
20471 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
20472 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
20473 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
20475 o Minor features (build compatibility):
20476 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
20477 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20478 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20480 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20481 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20483 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
20484 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
20485 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20486 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
20487 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
20488 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
20489 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20491 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
20492 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20493 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20494 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20495 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20496 raised by bug 3898.
20497 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
20498 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
20499 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
20502 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
20503 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20504 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20505 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20506 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20507 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20508 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20509 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20510 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20511 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20512 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20513 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20514 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20515 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20516 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20517 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20518 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20519 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20520 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20523 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20524 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
20525 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
20529 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
20530 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
20531 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
20532 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
20533 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
20534 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
20537 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20538 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20539 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20540 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20541 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20542 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20543 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20544 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20545 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20546 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20548 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20549 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20550 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20551 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20552 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20553 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20554 many many other features and bugfixes.
20557 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
20558 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
20559 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
20562 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
20563 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
20564 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
20565 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
20566 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
20567 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
20568 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
20569 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
20572 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20575 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20576 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20577 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20578 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
20579 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
20580 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
20581 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
20582 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
20583 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
20584 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
20585 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
20586 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
20587 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
20588 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20589 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
20590 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
20591 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
20592 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
20596 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
20597 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
20598 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
20599 up a variety of recently introduced features.
20602 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20603 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20604 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
20605 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
20606 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20607 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
20608 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
20609 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
20610 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20611 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
20612 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
20613 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
20614 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20615 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20616 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20617 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20619 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20620 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
20621 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
20622 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
20623 order. Fixes bug 2798.
20624 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
20625 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
20626 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
20627 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
20628 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
20629 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
20633 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20634 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
20635 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
20636 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
20638 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
20639 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
20640 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
20641 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
20642 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
20643 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
20644 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
20645 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
20646 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
20647 Implements ticket 3264.
20648 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
20649 implements ticket 3439.
20651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
20652 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
20653 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
20654 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
20655 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
20656 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
20657 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
20658 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
20659 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
20660 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
20661 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
20662 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
20663 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
20664 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
20665 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
20666 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
20667 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
20668 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
20669 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
20670 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
20671 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
20672 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
20673 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
20674 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
20675 fails. Spotted by coverity.
20676 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
20677 present. Found by coverity.
20678 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
20679 a directory cache that provides them.
20681 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20682 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
20683 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
20684 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
20685 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
20686 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
20688 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
20689 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
20690 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20691 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
20692 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
20693 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20694 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
20695 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
20697 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20698 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
20699 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
20700 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
20701 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
20702 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
20703 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
20705 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
20709 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
20710 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
20711 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
20714 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
20715 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
20716 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
20717 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
20720 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
20721 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
20722 discovered by katmagic.
20723 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20724 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20725 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20726 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20727 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20728 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20729 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20730 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20731 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
20732 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
20733 fixes part of bug 3465.
20734 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
20735 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
20739 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20742 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
20743 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
20744 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
20745 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
20746 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
20749 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
20750 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
20751 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
20752 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
20753 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
20756 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20757 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20758 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20759 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20760 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20761 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20764 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
20765 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
20766 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
20767 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20768 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20769 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
20770 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
20771 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
20772 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
20773 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
20774 fixes part of bug 3407.
20775 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
20776 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
20777 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
20778 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
20779 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
20780 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
20781 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
20782 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
20783 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
20784 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
20786 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
20787 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
20788 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
20789 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
20792 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20794 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20795 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
20796 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
20798 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
20800 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
20803 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
20804 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
20805 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
20806 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
20807 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
20808 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
20812 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
20813 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
20814 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
20815 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20816 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
20817 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
20818 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
20820 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
20821 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20822 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
20823 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
20824 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
20825 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
20826 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
20827 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
20828 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
20829 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
20830 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
20831 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
20832 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
20833 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
20834 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
20835 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
20836 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
20837 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
20838 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
20842 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
20843 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
20844 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
20845 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
20846 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
20847 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
20848 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
20849 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
20850 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
20854 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20855 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
20856 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
20858 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
20860 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
20861 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
20862 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
20863 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
20864 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20865 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
20866 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
20867 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
20868 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
20870 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
20871 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20872 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
20873 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
20874 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
20875 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
20877 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
20878 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
20880 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
20881 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
20882 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20885 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
20886 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
20887 Resolves ticket 3252.
20888 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
20889 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
20890 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
20891 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
20892 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
20893 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
20896 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20897 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20900 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
20901 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
20902 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
20905 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
20906 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20907 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
20908 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
20909 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
20912 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
20913 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20914 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
20915 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
20916 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
20917 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
20918 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
20919 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
20920 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
20924 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
20925 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
20926 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
20927 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
20928 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
20930 o Security/privacy fixes:
20931 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20932 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20933 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20934 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20935 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20936 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20937 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20938 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20939 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20940 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20941 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20942 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20943 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
20944 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
20945 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20948 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
20949 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
20950 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
20951 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
20952 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
20953 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
20954 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
20955 part of ticket 3076.
20956 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
20957 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
20958 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
20962 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
20963 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
20964 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
20965 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
20966 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
20967 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
20968 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
20969 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
20971 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
20972 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
20973 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
20974 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
20975 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
20976 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
20977 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
20978 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
20979 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
20980 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
20981 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
20982 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
20983 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20986 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
20987 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
20988 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
20989 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
20990 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20991 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20992 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20994 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
20995 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
20996 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
20997 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
20998 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
20999 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
21000 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
21001 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
21002 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
21003 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
21004 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21005 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21006 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21007 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21008 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21009 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21011 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21012 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21014 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21015 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21017 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21018 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21020 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21021 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21022 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21024 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
21025 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
21026 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
21027 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
21028 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21029 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
21030 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
21031 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
21032 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
21033 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21034 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21036 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
21037 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
21038 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
21039 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21040 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21041 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21042 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21043 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21044 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21045 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21046 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21047 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21048 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21051 o Removed features:
21052 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
21053 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
21054 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
21058 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
21059 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
21060 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
21061 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
21062 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
21063 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
21065 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
21066 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21067 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
21070 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21071 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21072 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21073 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21074 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21075 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21076 zero-copy transports where available.
21077 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
21078 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
21079 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
21080 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
21081 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
21082 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
21083 debug it as it breaks.
21084 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21085 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
21086 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
21087 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
21088 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21089 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
21090 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
21091 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
21092 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
21093 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
21094 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
21095 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
21096 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
21097 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
21098 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
21099 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
21100 PortForwarding option.
21101 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
21102 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
21103 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
21104 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
21105 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
21106 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
21107 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
21110 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21111 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21112 Implements enhancement 1668.
21113 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
21115 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21116 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21117 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21118 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21119 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21120 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21121 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21123 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21124 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21125 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21126 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21127 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21128 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21129 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21131 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21132 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21133 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21134 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21135 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21136 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21137 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21139 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
21140 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
21141 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
21142 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
21143 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21144 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
21145 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
21146 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
21147 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
21148 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
21149 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
21150 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21151 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
21152 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
21153 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
21156 o Minor features (controller):
21157 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21158 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21159 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21160 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21161 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21162 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21163 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21166 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21167 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21168 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21169 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21170 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21171 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
21172 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
21173 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21175 o Minor packaging issues:
21176 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
21177 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21180 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21181 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21182 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21183 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21184 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21185 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21186 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21187 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21188 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21189 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21190 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21191 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21193 o Removed features:
21194 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21195 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21196 are no longer in use as servers.
21198 o Documentation fixes:
21199 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21200 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
21201 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
21205 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
21206 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
21207 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
21208 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
21209 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
21210 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
21211 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
21212 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
21213 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
21214 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
21217 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
21218 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
21219 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
21220 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21221 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
21222 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
21223 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
21224 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
21225 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
21226 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21227 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
21228 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
21229 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21230 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
21231 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
21232 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
21234 o Security and stability fixes:
21235 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
21236 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
21237 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
21238 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
21239 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
21240 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
21241 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
21242 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
21243 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
21244 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
21245 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
21246 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21247 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21248 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21249 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21250 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21253 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
21254 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
21255 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
21256 contributions to the network.
21258 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
21259 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
21260 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
21261 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
21262 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
21263 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
21264 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
21265 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
21266 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
21267 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
21268 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
21269 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
21270 connections to directory servers.
21271 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
21272 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
21273 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
21274 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
21275 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
21276 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
21277 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
21278 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
21279 information, or fetch directory information.
21280 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
21281 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
21282 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
21283 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
21284 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
21285 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
21286 unless you really want your Tor to break.
21287 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
21288 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
21289 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
21290 - When StrictNodes is 1:
21291 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
21292 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
21293 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
21294 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
21295 reachability self-tests.
21296 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
21297 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
21298 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
21299 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
21300 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21301 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
21302 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
21304 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
21305 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21306 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
21307 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
21308 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
21309 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21310 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
21311 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
21312 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
21313 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
21314 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
21317 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
21318 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
21319 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
21320 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21321 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21322 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21323 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
21324 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21325 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21326 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21327 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21328 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21329 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21330 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21331 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21332 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21333 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21335 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21336 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21337 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21338 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21339 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21340 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21341 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21342 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21343 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21344 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21345 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21346 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21347 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
21348 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
21349 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
21350 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21351 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21352 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21353 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21354 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21357 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
21358 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
21359 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
21360 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
21361 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
21362 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
21363 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
21364 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
21365 Required by fix for bug 3000.
21366 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
21367 by fix for bug 3000.
21368 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
21369 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
21371 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21372 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
21373 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
21374 send a body too). Since only server versions before
21375 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
21376 keep the workaround in place.
21377 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
21378 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
21379 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
21380 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
21381 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
21382 want to do it differently.
21383 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21384 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21385 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21386 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
21387 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
21391 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
21392 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
21393 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
21394 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
21395 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
21398 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
21399 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
21400 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
21401 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
21402 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
21404 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
21405 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
21406 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
21407 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
21408 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
21409 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
21410 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
21411 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
21412 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
21413 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
21414 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
21415 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
21418 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21419 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21420 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21421 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21422 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21423 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21424 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21426 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21427 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21428 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21429 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21430 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21431 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
21432 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
21433 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
21434 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21435 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21436 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21437 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21438 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21439 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21440 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21441 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21442 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21443 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
21444 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
21445 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
21446 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
21447 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21448 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21451 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
21452 networkstatus vote.
21453 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
21454 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
21455 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
21457 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
21458 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
21459 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
21460 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
21462 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
21463 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
21464 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
21465 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21468 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21469 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21471 o Documentation changes:
21472 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
21473 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
21475 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
21478 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
21479 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
21480 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
21481 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
21482 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
21483 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
21486 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21487 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21488 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21489 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21490 the rest of bug 1074.
21491 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21492 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21493 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21494 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21495 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
21496 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21497 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21498 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21499 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21500 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21501 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21502 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21503 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21504 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21507 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
21508 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
21509 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
21510 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
21511 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
21512 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
21513 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
21514 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
21515 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
21516 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
21517 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
21518 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
21519 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
21520 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
21522 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
21523 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21524 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21525 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21526 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21527 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21529 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21530 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21531 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21532 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
21533 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
21534 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
21535 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21536 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21537 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21538 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21539 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21540 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21541 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21542 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21543 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21544 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21545 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21546 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21547 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21548 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21549 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21550 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21551 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21552 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21553 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21554 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21556 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
21557 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
21558 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21559 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21560 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21561 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21563 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
21564 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
21565 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21567 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
21568 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
21569 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
21570 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
21571 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
21572 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
21573 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
21574 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
21575 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
21576 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
21577 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
21578 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
21579 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
21583 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
21584 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
21585 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
21586 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
21587 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
21588 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
21589 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
21590 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
21591 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
21592 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
21593 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
21594 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
21596 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21598 o Minor features (log subsystem):
21599 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
21600 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
21601 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
21603 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
21604 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
21606 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
21607 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
21608 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
21611 o Packaging changes:
21612 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21613 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21614 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21617 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
21618 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
21619 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
21620 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21621 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21622 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
21625 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21626 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
21627 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
21628 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
21629 the rest of bug 1074.
21630 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21631 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21632 Found by "piebeer".
21633 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
21634 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
21635 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
21636 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
21637 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
21638 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
21639 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21642 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21644 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21647 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21648 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21649 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
21650 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
21651 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
21652 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
21653 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
21654 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
21655 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
21656 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
21657 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21659 o Packaging changes:
21660 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
21661 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
21662 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
21663 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
21664 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
21665 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21668 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
21669 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
21670 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
21671 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
21672 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
21673 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
21676 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
21677 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21678 Found by "piebeer".
21679 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
21680 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
21681 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
21682 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
21685 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
21687 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
21688 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
21689 Implements ticket 2432.
21692 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
21693 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
21694 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
21697 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
21698 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
21699 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
21700 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
21701 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
21702 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21704 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21705 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21706 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21707 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21709 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21710 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21711 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21712 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21713 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21714 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21715 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21716 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21718 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21719 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21720 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21721 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21722 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21723 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21724 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21725 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21726 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21727 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21728 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21729 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21730 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21731 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21734 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
21735 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21736 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21737 bug reported by doorss.
21738 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21739 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21740 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21741 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21742 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21744 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21745 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21746 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21747 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
21748 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21750 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
21751 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21752 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21754 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
21755 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21756 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21757 Automake 1.7 or later.
21758 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21759 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21760 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21761 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21763 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21764 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
21765 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
21768 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21769 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
21770 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
21771 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
21773 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21774 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21775 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21776 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
21777 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
21778 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
21779 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21780 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21781 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21783 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
21784 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
21785 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
21788 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21789 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21790 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21791 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21792 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21793 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21794 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
21795 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
21796 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
21797 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
21798 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
21799 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
21800 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
21802 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
21803 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
21807 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
21808 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
21809 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
21810 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
21811 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
21813 o Major bugfixes (security):
21814 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
21815 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
21816 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
21818 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
21819 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
21820 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
21821 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
21822 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
21823 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
21824 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
21825 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
21827 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21828 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
21829 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
21830 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
21831 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
21832 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
21833 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
21834 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
21835 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
21836 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
21837 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
21838 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
21839 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
21840 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
21843 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21844 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
21845 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
21846 bug reported by doorss.
21847 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
21848 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
21849 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21850 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
21851 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
21853 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
21854 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
21855 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
21856 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
21857 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21858 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
21859 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
21860 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
21861 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
21864 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21865 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
21868 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
21869 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
21870 Automake 1.7 or later.
21873 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
21874 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21875 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
21876 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
21877 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
21880 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21881 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21882 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21883 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21884 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
21885 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
21886 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
21887 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
21888 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
21889 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
21890 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
21892 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
21893 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
21894 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
21895 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
21897 o Directory authority changes:
21898 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21901 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
21902 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
21903 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21904 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21905 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21906 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21907 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
21908 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
21909 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
21912 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21913 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
21914 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
21915 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
21916 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
21917 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
21918 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
21919 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
21920 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
21921 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
21925 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
21926 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
21927 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
21928 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
21932 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
21933 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
21934 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
21935 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
21937 o Directory authority changes:
21938 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21941 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21944 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
21945 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
21946 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
21947 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
21948 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
21951 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
21952 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
21953 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
21954 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
21955 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21956 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
21957 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
21958 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
21959 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
21960 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21961 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
21962 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21963 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
21964 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
21965 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
21966 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
21967 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
21968 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21969 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
21970 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
21971 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
21972 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
21973 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
21976 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
21977 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
21978 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
21979 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
21981 o New directory authorities:
21982 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
21986 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
21987 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
21988 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
21990 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
21991 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
21992 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
21993 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
21994 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
21995 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
21997 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
21998 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
21999 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22002 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22003 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22004 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22005 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22006 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22007 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22008 Patch from mingw-san.
22011 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22012 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22013 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22014 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
22015 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
22016 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
22019 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
22020 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22021 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
22024 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22025 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22026 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22027 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22028 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22031 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
22032 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
22033 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
22034 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
22035 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
22036 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
22037 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
22038 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
22039 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
22042 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
22043 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
22044 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
22045 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
22046 to a stable release.
22049 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22050 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22051 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22052 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22053 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22054 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22055 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22056 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22057 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22058 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22059 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22060 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22061 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22062 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22063 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22064 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22065 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22066 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22067 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22068 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22069 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22070 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
22071 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
22072 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
22073 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22074 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
22075 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
22076 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
22077 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
22078 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
22079 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
22082 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22083 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
22084 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
22085 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
22086 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
22087 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
22088 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22089 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22090 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22091 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22092 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22093 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22094 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22095 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22096 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
22097 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
22098 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
22100 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22101 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22102 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
22103 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
22104 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
22106 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
22107 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
22108 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
22109 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
22112 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22113 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22114 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22115 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22116 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22117 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22118 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22119 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22121 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22122 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
22123 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
22124 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
22125 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
22126 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
22127 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
22128 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
22129 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
22130 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
22131 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
22132 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
22133 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
22134 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
22135 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
22138 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
22139 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
22140 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
22141 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
22142 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
22143 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
22144 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
22145 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
22146 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
22149 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22150 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22151 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22152 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22153 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
22155 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
22156 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22157 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22158 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22159 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22160 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22161 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22162 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22163 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22164 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22165 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22166 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22167 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22168 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22170 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22171 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
22173 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
22174 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22175 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
22176 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
22177 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
22178 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
22179 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
22180 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
22181 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22182 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
22183 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
22184 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
22185 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
22186 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
22187 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
22188 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
22189 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
22190 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22192 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
22193 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
22194 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
22195 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
22196 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
22197 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
22198 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
22199 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
22200 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
22201 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
22202 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
22203 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
22204 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
22206 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
22207 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
22208 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
22209 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22212 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22213 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22214 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22215 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22216 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
22217 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
22218 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
22219 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
22220 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
22221 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
22222 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22223 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22224 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22225 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
22226 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
22227 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
22228 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
22229 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
22230 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
22233 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22234 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
22235 based on the time during which we were active and not in
22236 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
22237 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
22238 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
22239 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
22240 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22242 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22243 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
22244 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
22245 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
22246 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
22247 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
22248 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
22249 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
22250 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
22251 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22254 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
22255 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
22256 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
22257 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
22259 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22260 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22261 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22262 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22263 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22264 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22265 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22266 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22267 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22268 the longest-lived bug prize.
22269 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22270 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22271 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22272 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22273 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22274 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22276 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22277 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22278 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22279 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22280 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22281 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22285 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22286 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
22287 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
22288 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
22289 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
22290 got suppressed since the last warning.
22291 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
22292 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
22293 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
22294 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
22295 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
22296 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
22297 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
22298 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
22299 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
22300 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
22301 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
22302 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
22303 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
22304 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
22305 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
22306 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22307 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22308 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22309 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22311 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22312 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22313 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22315 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22316 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
22317 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
22318 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
22319 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
22320 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
22321 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
22322 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
22323 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
22324 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
22325 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
22326 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22327 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22328 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22329 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22331 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22332 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
22333 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
22334 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
22335 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
22336 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22337 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
22339 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
22340 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
22341 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
22342 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
22343 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
22346 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22347 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
22348 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
22349 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
22350 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
22351 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
22352 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
22353 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
22354 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
22355 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
22356 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22357 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
22358 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
22359 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
22360 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
22361 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
22362 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
22363 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
22366 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
22369 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
22370 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
22371 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
22372 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
22373 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
22377 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22378 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22379 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22380 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22381 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22382 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22383 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22384 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
22385 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
22386 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
22387 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
22388 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
22389 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
22390 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
22391 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
22392 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22393 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22396 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22397 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22398 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22399 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22400 they first get the Guard flag.
22401 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
22405 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22406 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22407 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22408 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22409 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22410 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22411 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22412 Patch from mingw-san.
22413 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22414 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22416 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22417 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22418 Implements enhancement 1790.
22420 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22421 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
22422 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
22423 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
22424 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
22425 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
22426 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
22427 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
22428 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
22429 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
22430 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
22431 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
22432 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22433 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
22434 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
22435 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
22436 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
22437 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
22438 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
22439 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
22441 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
22442 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
22443 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
22444 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22445 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22446 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22447 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22448 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
22449 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22450 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22451 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22452 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22453 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
22455 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22456 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22457 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22458 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
22459 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
22460 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22462 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22463 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
22464 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
22465 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
22466 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22467 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
22468 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
22469 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22470 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
22471 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
22472 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
22473 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
22475 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
22476 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
22477 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
22478 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
22479 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
22480 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
22481 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
22483 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
22485 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
22486 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
22487 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
22488 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
22489 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
22490 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
22492 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22493 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
22494 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
22495 structures and defines in or.h for now.
22496 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
22497 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
22498 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
22499 statistics code to be more easily tested.
22500 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22501 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22502 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22505 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
22506 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
22507 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
22508 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
22509 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
22510 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
22514 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
22515 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
22516 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
22517 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22518 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22519 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
22520 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
22521 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
22522 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
22523 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
22524 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
22525 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
22526 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
22528 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
22529 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
22530 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
22531 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
22532 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
22533 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
22534 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
22535 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
22536 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
22537 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
22538 can be controlled by the consensus.
22541 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
22542 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
22543 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
22544 more accurate data for many African countries.
22545 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
22546 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
22547 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22548 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22549 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22550 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22551 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22552 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22553 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22554 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22555 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22556 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22558 o New directory authorities:
22559 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22563 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22564 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22565 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22566 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22567 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22568 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
22569 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
22570 what should go in a patch.
22571 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22572 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22573 over our stored history.
22574 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
22575 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
22576 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
22577 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
22578 file. Fixes bug 1296.
22579 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22580 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22581 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22585 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22587 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
22588 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
22589 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
22590 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
22591 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
22592 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
22593 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
22594 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
22595 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
22596 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
22597 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
22598 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22599 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
22600 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
22601 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
22602 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
22603 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
22604 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
22605 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
22606 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
22607 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
22608 two-hop circuits are actually created.
22609 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
22610 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22611 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
22612 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22615 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
22616 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22617 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22618 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22619 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22621 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
22622 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22625 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22626 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22627 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22628 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22629 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22630 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22631 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22632 their directory fetches over TLS).
22633 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22634 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22635 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22636 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22637 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22638 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22639 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22640 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22643 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22644 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22648 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22649 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22650 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22651 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22652 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22653 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22654 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22657 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
22658 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22659 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22660 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22661 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22664 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22665 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22666 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22667 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22668 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22669 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22670 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22671 their directory fetches over TLS).
22674 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22675 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22677 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22678 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22679 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22680 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22681 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22682 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22683 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22684 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22685 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22686 hour of their uptime.
22689 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
22690 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
22691 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
22695 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22696 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22697 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22698 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22699 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22700 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22702 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
22703 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
22704 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
22706 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
22707 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
22711 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
22712 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
22713 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
22717 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
22718 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
22719 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22722 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22723 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22724 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22725 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22726 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
22727 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
22728 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
22729 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
22730 about the option without breaking older ones.
22731 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22732 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22733 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22734 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22737 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
22738 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
22739 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
22740 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
22742 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22743 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
22744 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22747 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
22748 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
22750 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
22751 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
22752 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
22753 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
22754 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
22755 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
22756 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22757 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
22758 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
22759 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
22760 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
22763 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22764 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22765 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22766 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22767 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22768 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22769 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22772 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
22773 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
22774 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
22775 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
22776 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
22777 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
22780 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22781 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22782 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22783 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
22785 o Major features (performance):
22786 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22787 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22788 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
22789 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
22790 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
22791 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
22792 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
22794 o Minor features (performance):
22795 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22796 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22797 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22798 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22799 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22803 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
22804 speeds up the build considerably.
22806 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22807 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
22808 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22809 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
22810 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22811 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
22812 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
22813 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22815 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
22816 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22817 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22819 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22820 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22821 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22822 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22824 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22825 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
22826 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
22827 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
22828 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
22829 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
22832 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
22833 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
22834 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
22836 o Directory authority changes:
22837 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
22838 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
22839 service directory authority) from the list.
22842 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22843 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22844 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22845 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22846 libraries in a security patch.
22847 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22848 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22849 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22850 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22852 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22853 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22854 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22855 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22856 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22857 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22858 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22861 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
22862 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
22863 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
22864 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
22865 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
22866 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
22867 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
22868 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
22869 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
22870 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
22871 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
22872 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
22873 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22875 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
22876 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
22877 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
22878 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
22879 control-spec.txt said they were.
22880 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22881 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22882 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
22883 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
22884 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22886 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22887 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22888 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22889 produce nicer HTML.
22890 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
22891 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
22892 iPhone SDK versions.
22893 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
22894 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
22895 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
22896 projects directory in svn.
22897 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
22898 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
22899 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
22900 high latency links.
22903 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22904 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22905 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22907 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22908 to the circuit build timeout.
22909 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22910 arguments we do not recognize.
22911 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
22912 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
22913 open() without checking it.
22916 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
22917 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
22918 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
22919 several minor potential security bugs.
22922 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22923 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22924 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22925 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
22926 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22927 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22928 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22931 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22932 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22934 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22935 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22936 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22937 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22941 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
22942 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
22946 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
22947 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
22948 customized patches to run/build.
22951 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
22952 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
22953 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
22956 o Major bugfixes (performance):
22957 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22958 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22959 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22960 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22961 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22962 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22963 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22966 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22967 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22968 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22969 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22970 libraries in a security patch.
22971 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22972 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22973 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22974 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22977 o Directory authority changes:
22978 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
22979 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
22980 service directory authority) from the list.
22983 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22984 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22987 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22988 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22989 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22990 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22991 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22994 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
22995 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
22996 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
23000 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
23001 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
23002 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
23003 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
23004 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23007 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23008 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23009 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23013 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
23014 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
23015 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
23016 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
23017 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
23019 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
23020 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
23022 o Directory authority changes:
23023 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23026 o Major features (performance):
23027 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23028 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23029 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23030 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23031 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23032 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23033 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23034 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
23035 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
23036 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23037 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
23038 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23039 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23041 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23042 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23043 but never per-conn write limits.
23044 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23045 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23046 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23047 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23049 o Major features (relay selection options):
23050 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
23051 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
23052 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
23053 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23054 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23055 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23056 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23058 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
23059 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
23061 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23062 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23063 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23064 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23065 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23066 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23067 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23068 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23069 the network changes.
23072 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23073 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23074 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23077 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23078 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23079 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23080 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23081 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23082 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23083 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23084 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23085 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23086 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23087 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23088 generated while acting as a relay.
23089 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
23090 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23091 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23092 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23093 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23094 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23096 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
23097 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
23098 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23099 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
23100 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
23101 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
23104 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
23105 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
23106 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
23108 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23109 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23110 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23112 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23113 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23115 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
23116 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23117 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23119 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23120 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23123 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23124 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23125 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23126 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
23127 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
23128 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
23129 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23130 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23131 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23133 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23136 o Removed features:
23137 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23138 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
23139 hidden service usage.
23142 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23143 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23144 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23145 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23146 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23148 o Directory authority changes:
23149 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23153 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23154 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23155 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23158 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23159 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23160 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23161 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23162 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23165 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23166 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23167 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23168 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23169 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23170 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23171 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23174 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23175 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23176 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23177 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23178 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23179 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23181 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23182 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23185 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
23186 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
23187 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
23188 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
23189 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
23190 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
23193 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23194 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23195 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23197 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
23198 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23199 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
23200 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23201 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23202 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23203 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23204 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23205 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23206 hash algorithm in the future.
23207 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23208 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23209 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23210 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23211 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23212 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23213 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23214 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23215 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23218 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23219 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23220 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
23221 won't work unless we say we are.
23224 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23225 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23226 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23227 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23228 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23229 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23230 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23231 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23232 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23233 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23234 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23235 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23236 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23237 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23238 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23239 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
23240 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
23241 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
23242 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23243 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
23244 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
23245 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
23248 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
23249 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
23250 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
23251 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23253 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
23254 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
23256 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
23257 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
23258 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
23259 in the Vidalia Settings window.
23262 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23263 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23264 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23265 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23266 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23268 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23269 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23271 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
23272 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
23273 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
23276 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23277 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23278 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23280 o New directory authorities:
23281 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23283 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23286 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
23287 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23289 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23290 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23291 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23292 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23293 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23294 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23295 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23296 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23297 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23298 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23299 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23300 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23301 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23302 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23303 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23304 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23305 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23307 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23308 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23309 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
23311 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23312 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23316 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23317 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23318 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23319 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23320 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23323 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
23324 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23327 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23329 o Directory authorities:
23330 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
23334 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
23335 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
23336 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
23337 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
23338 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
23341 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
23342 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
23343 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
23344 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
23346 o New directory authorities:
23347 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23350 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23351 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23352 SSL handshake issues.
23353 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23354 during the TLS handshake.
23355 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
23356 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
23357 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
23358 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
23359 none of which are very big.
23362 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
23364 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
23365 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23366 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
23367 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
23368 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23369 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23370 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23371 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23374 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23375 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23376 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23377 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23378 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23381 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
23382 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23385 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
23386 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
23389 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
23390 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
23391 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23394 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
23395 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
23396 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
23397 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
23398 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
23399 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
23402 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23403 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23404 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23405 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23406 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23407 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23408 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23409 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
23410 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
23411 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
23412 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
23413 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
23414 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23415 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23416 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23417 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23418 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23419 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23422 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23423 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23427 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23428 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23429 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23430 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
23431 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
23432 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23433 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23434 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23435 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23436 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23437 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23438 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23439 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23440 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23441 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23442 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23443 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23444 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23445 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23446 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23447 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23449 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23450 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23451 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
23452 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23453 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23454 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23456 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23457 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23458 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23461 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23462 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23463 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23464 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23465 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23466 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
23469 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
23470 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
23471 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
23472 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
23473 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
23476 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23477 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23478 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23481 o New directory authorities:
23482 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23486 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23487 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23488 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23489 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23490 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23493 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23494 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23495 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23496 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23497 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23500 o New options for gathering stats safely:
23501 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23502 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23503 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
23504 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
23505 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
23506 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
23507 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
23508 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23509 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23511 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23512 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23513 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23514 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23516 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23517 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23518 their extra-info documents.
23521 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23522 source files Tor was built with.
23523 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23524 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23525 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23526 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23527 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23528 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23530 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23531 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23532 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23533 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23534 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23536 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23537 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23540 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23541 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23542 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23543 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23544 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23546 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23547 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23549 o Deprecated and removed features:
23550 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23551 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23552 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23553 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23554 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23555 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23556 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23557 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23559 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23560 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23561 via application-level web tricks.
23563 o Packaging changes:
23564 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
23565 installer bundles. See
23566 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
23567 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
23568 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
23569 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
23570 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
23571 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
23572 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
23573 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
23574 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
23575 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
23576 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
23577 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
23580 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23581 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23582 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
23585 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23586 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23587 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23590 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23591 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23592 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23593 and confuse fewer users.
23596 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23597 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23598 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23599 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23600 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23601 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23602 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23605 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23606 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23607 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23608 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23609 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23610 other features and bug fixes.
23613 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
23616 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
23617 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
23618 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
23619 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
23620 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
23623 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
23624 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
23625 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
23626 failure message (oops).
23629 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
23630 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
23631 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
23632 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
23636 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
23637 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
23638 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
23639 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
23640 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
23641 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
23642 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23643 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
23644 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
23645 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
23646 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
23647 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
23648 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
23649 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
23650 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23653 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
23654 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
23655 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
23656 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
23657 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
23658 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
23659 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
23660 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
23661 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
23662 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
23663 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
23664 Workaround for bug 1024.
23665 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
23669 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
23670 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
23671 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
23674 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
23676 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23677 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23678 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23679 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23680 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23683 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23684 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23685 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23686 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23687 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23688 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23689 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23690 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23691 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23692 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23695 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23696 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23697 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
23698 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23699 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23700 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23701 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23702 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23705 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
23706 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
23707 a bunch of minor bugs.
23710 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23711 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23712 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23714 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
23715 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
23716 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
23717 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
23719 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
23723 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23724 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
23725 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
23727 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23728 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
23730 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
23731 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
23733 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
23734 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
23735 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
23736 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23737 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23738 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23739 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23740 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23742 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23743 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
23744 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
23746 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
23747 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
23748 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
23749 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
23750 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
23754 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
23755 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
23756 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
23757 of more minor bugs.
23759 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23760 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23761 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23762 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23764 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23765 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
23766 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
23767 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23768 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
23769 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
23770 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
23771 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
23772 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
23773 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
23774 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
23775 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23776 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
23777 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
23778 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
23779 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
23780 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
23782 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
23783 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
23784 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
23785 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23787 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23788 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
23789 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
23792 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
23793 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
23794 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
23795 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
23796 addresses to fall out of the directory.
23799 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23800 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23801 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23802 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23804 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
23805 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23806 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23807 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23808 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23809 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23810 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23811 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23812 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
23813 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
23814 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
23815 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
23816 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
23817 patch by Sebastian.
23818 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23819 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23822 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
23823 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
23824 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
23825 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
23826 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
23827 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
23829 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
23830 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
23831 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
23832 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
23833 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
23835 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23838 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
23839 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
23841 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
23842 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
23843 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23844 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23845 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23846 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23848 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
23849 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23850 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
23851 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
23852 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
23853 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23854 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
23855 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
23856 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
23857 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
23858 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
23859 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
23863 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
23864 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
23865 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
23868 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
23869 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
23870 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23872 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
23873 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
23874 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
23875 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
23876 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
23877 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
23878 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
23879 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23880 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23881 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23882 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
23883 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23884 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
23885 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
23886 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
23887 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
23888 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
23889 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
23890 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
23891 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
23892 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
23893 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
23894 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
23895 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
23896 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
23897 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
23899 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
23900 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
23901 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
23902 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
23903 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
23904 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
23905 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
23906 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
23907 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
23908 of 0. Suggested by lark.
23910 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
23911 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
23912 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
23913 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
23914 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
23917 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
23919 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
23920 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
23921 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
23922 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
23925 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
23926 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
23927 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
23928 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23929 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
23931 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
23932 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
23933 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
23934 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23937 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23938 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23939 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23940 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23941 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23942 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
23943 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23944 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23947 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
23948 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23949 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23950 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23953 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
23954 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
23955 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
23956 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23957 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
23958 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
23961 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23962 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23963 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23964 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23965 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23966 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23969 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
23970 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
23971 reported by Matt Edman.
23972 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
23974 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23975 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23976 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
23977 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
23979 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
23980 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23981 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
23982 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23983 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23984 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23985 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
23986 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
23987 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
23988 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
23989 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
23990 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
23991 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
23992 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23993 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
23994 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23995 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
23996 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
23997 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24000 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
24001 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24002 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24003 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24006 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24007 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24008 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24011 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24012 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24013 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24014 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24016 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24017 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24018 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24021 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24022 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24025 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24026 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24027 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24028 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24029 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24030 reported by "wood".
24031 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24032 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24033 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24034 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24035 identify a connection.
24036 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24037 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24038 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24039 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24040 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24041 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24042 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24043 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24044 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24045 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24047 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24048 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24049 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24050 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24051 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24052 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24053 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24056 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24057 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24059 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24060 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24061 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24062 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24063 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24064 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24065 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24066 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24068 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24069 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24070 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24071 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24072 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24073 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24074 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24075 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24076 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24077 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24078 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24079 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24080 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24081 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24082 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24083 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24084 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24085 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24086 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24087 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24088 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24089 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24090 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24091 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24092 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24093 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24094 840. Patch from rovv.
24095 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24096 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24097 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24099 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24100 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24101 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24102 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24103 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24104 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24105 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24107 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24108 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24109 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24112 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24113 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24115 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24116 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24117 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24118 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24119 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24120 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24121 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24122 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24123 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24125 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24127 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24128 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24132 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
24133 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
24134 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
24135 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
24136 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
24137 have had some time to upgrade.)
24140 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24141 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24144 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24145 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24146 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
24147 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
24148 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24151 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24152 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24154 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
24155 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24156 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24157 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24158 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24159 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24162 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24163 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24164 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
24165 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
24166 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
24167 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24168 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24172 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
24173 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
24174 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
24175 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
24176 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
24177 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
24178 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
24181 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24182 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
24183 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
24184 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
24185 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
24187 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24188 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24189 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24190 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24191 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24192 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24193 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24194 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24195 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24196 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24200 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24201 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24202 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24204 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
24205 without support for deprecated functions.
24206 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
24208 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24209 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24210 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24211 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24212 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24213 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24214 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24215 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24216 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24217 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24218 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24219 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24220 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24221 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24222 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24223 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24224 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24225 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24226 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24227 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24228 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24229 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24230 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24232 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24233 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
24234 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
24235 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
24236 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
24237 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
24239 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
24240 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
24241 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
24242 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
24243 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
24245 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
24246 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
24247 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
24249 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
24250 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
24253 o Deprecated and removed features:
24254 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24255 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24256 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24259 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24260 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
24261 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
24262 with log.h on Android.
24263 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24264 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24267 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
24268 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
24270 o New directory authorities:
24271 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
24275 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24276 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24277 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24278 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24279 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
24280 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24283 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
24284 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
24285 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
24286 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24287 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24288 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24289 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24290 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24291 reported by "wood".
24292 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24293 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
24294 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24295 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24298 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
24299 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
24301 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
24302 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
24303 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
24304 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
24305 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
24306 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
24307 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
24308 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
24309 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
24310 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
24311 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
24312 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
24313 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24314 Implements proposal 148.
24315 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
24316 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
24317 system to do it for us.
24318 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24319 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
24320 this fix will be slightly helpful.
24321 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24322 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
24323 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
24324 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
24325 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
24326 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24327 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24328 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24329 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24332 o Minor features (controller):
24333 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24334 been fetched and validated.
24335 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24336 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
24337 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24338 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24339 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
24340 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
24343 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
24344 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24345 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24346 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24347 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24349 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24350 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24351 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24352 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24353 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24354 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24355 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24356 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24357 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24359 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24360 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
24361 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
24362 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
24363 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24364 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
24365 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
24366 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24368 o Deprecated and removed features:
24369 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24371 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24372 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24373 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24375 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24376 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24377 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24379 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24380 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24381 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24382 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24383 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24384 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24387 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
24388 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
24389 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
24390 fixes a variety of other issues.
24393 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24394 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24395 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24396 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24399 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24400 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24401 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24402 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24405 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24406 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24407 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
24411 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
24413 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24414 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24415 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24416 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
24417 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
24418 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
24419 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24421 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24422 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24423 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
24424 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24425 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24426 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24428 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24429 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24430 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24431 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24432 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24433 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24434 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24435 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24436 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24437 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
24439 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24443 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24444 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24445 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24447 o Minor features (controller):
24448 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
24452 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24453 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24454 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24455 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24456 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24457 variety of other issues.
24460 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24461 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24462 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24463 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24464 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24465 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24466 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24467 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24468 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24469 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24470 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24471 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24474 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24475 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24477 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24478 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24479 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24480 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24481 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24482 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24483 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24484 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24485 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24486 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24487 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24488 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24489 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24490 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24491 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24495 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24496 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24497 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24498 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24499 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24500 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24501 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24502 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24503 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24504 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24505 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24506 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24507 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24508 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24509 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24510 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24511 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24512 list. It has been gone for many months.
24513 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24514 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24515 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24518 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24519 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24520 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24523 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
24524 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24525 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24526 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24527 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
24528 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24529 variety of other issues.
24532 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24533 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24534 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24535 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24536 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24537 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24538 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24539 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24540 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24541 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24542 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24543 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
24544 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24545 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24548 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24549 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24550 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24551 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24552 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24553 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24554 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24555 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24556 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24558 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
24559 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
24561 o Hidden service performance improvements:
24562 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24563 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24564 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24565 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24566 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24567 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24568 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24569 faster after restart.
24572 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
24573 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
24574 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
24575 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24576 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24577 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24578 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24579 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24580 840. Patch from rovv.
24581 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24582 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24583 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24584 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24585 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24586 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24587 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24588 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24589 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24591 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
24592 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
24593 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24594 have already been marked for close.
24595 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
24596 introduction points.
24597 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24598 memory performance during directory parsing.
24599 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24600 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24601 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24602 because of a pending download.
24605 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
24606 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
24607 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
24608 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24611 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
24612 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
24613 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
24614 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
24615 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
24616 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
24617 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
24618 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24619 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24620 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24621 lookups more reliable.
24622 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
24623 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
24624 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24625 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24626 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24627 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
24628 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24631 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
24632 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
24633 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24634 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24635 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24636 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
24637 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
24638 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
24639 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
24640 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
24641 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24643 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24644 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24645 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24646 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24647 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24648 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24649 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
24650 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
24651 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24654 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
24655 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24656 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24657 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24658 locked down these days.
24659 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24660 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24661 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24662 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24663 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
24665 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24666 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24667 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24668 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24669 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24670 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24671 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24672 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24673 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24674 people find host:port too confusing.
24675 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24676 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24677 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24680 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24682 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24683 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24684 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24685 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24686 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24688 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
24689 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
24690 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24691 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24692 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24693 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24694 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24695 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24696 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24697 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24698 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24699 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24701 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24702 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24703 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24704 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
24705 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24706 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24707 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24708 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24709 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24711 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24712 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24713 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24714 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24715 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24716 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24717 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24718 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24719 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24720 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24721 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24722 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24723 list. It has been gone for many months.
24725 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24726 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24727 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24728 actual mistakes we're making here.
24729 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24730 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24731 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24732 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24735 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24736 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24737 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24738 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24741 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24742 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24743 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24744 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24745 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24746 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24748 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24749 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24750 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24751 pointed out by rovv.
24754 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24755 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24756 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24757 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24758 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24759 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24760 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24761 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24762 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24763 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24764 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24765 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24766 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24767 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24768 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24769 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24770 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24771 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24772 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24773 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24774 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24777 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
24778 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
24779 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
24780 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
24781 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
24782 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
24783 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24786 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24788 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
24789 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
24790 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
24791 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
24792 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
24793 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
24794 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
24796 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
24797 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
24798 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
24799 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
24800 known descriptor before building circuits.
24802 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
24803 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24804 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24805 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24806 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24807 identify a connection.
24808 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24809 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24810 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24812 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24813 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24814 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24815 pointed out by rovv.
24818 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24819 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24820 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24821 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
24822 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
24823 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24824 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24825 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24826 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
24827 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24828 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24829 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24830 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24831 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24832 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24835 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24836 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
24837 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
24838 answer sections match.
24839 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24840 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24843 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
24844 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24847 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
24848 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
24849 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
24851 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
24852 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
24853 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24856 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
24857 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
24858 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
24859 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
24862 o Removed features:
24863 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24864 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24867 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
24868 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
24869 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
24870 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
24871 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
24872 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
24874 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
24875 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
24876 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
24879 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24880 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24881 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24882 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
24883 be sent using an "early" cell.
24886 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24887 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24888 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24889 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24890 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24891 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24892 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24895 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24896 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24897 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24898 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24899 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24900 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24901 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24902 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24903 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
24904 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
24905 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24906 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24907 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24908 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24909 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24910 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24913 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24914 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24915 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24916 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
24917 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
24918 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
24919 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
24920 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
24921 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
24923 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24924 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24925 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24926 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24927 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24930 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24931 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
24932 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
24933 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24935 o Removed features:
24936 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
24937 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24941 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24943 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
24944 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
24945 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
24948 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
24949 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
24950 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24953 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
24954 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
24955 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
24956 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
24957 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24958 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
24959 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
24960 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
24961 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24962 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24963 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
24964 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
24965 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
24966 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24967 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
24968 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
24969 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
24970 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
24971 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
24972 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
24973 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
24974 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
24975 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
24978 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
24979 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
24981 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
24982 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
24983 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24984 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24985 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24986 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
24987 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
24989 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
24990 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
24991 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
24992 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
24993 found by Geoff Goodell.
24996 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
24997 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
24998 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
24999 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
25000 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
25001 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
25004 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
25005 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
25006 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
25009 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
25010 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
25011 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
25012 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
25013 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25014 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
25015 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
25016 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
25017 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25018 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25019 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
25020 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
25021 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
25022 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25025 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25026 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
25027 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
25029 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25030 fingerprints with or without space.
25031 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25032 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25033 partway through and wants to catch up.
25034 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
25035 state to start out in.
25038 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
25039 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
25040 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25041 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
25042 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
25045 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
25046 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
25047 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
25048 some of the connection attempts fail.
25049 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
25050 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
25051 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
25052 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
25053 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
25054 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
25056 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
25057 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
25058 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
25061 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
25062 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
25063 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
25064 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
25065 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
25066 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
25067 and adds a variety of smaller features.
25070 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
25071 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
25072 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
25073 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
25075 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
25076 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
25077 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
25078 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
25080 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
25081 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
25082 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
25083 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
25084 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
25085 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
25086 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
25089 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
25090 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
25091 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
25092 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25093 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25095 o Memory fixes and improvements:
25096 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25097 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25098 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25099 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25100 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25101 on a typical directory cache.
25102 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25103 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25104 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25105 and may reduce fragmentation.
25106 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25107 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25108 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25110 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25111 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25112 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25114 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25115 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
25119 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25120 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25121 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25122 done that for a long time.
25123 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25124 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25125 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25126 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25129 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25130 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25131 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25132 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25133 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25134 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25136 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25137 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25138 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25139 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25140 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25141 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25142 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25143 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25144 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25145 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25146 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25147 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25148 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25149 directory requests we should expect to see.
25150 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
25152 - Lots of new unit tests.
25153 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
25154 two parallel lists in lockstep.
25157 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
25158 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
25159 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
25162 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25163 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25164 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25165 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25166 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25167 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25168 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25171 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
25172 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
25173 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
25177 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
25178 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25179 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25182 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25183 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25184 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25186 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
25187 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
25189 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
25190 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
25191 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25192 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25193 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25194 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25195 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
25197 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
25198 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
25199 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
25200 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
25201 - Fix compile on Windows.
25204 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
25205 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
25206 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
25207 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
25208 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
25209 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
25210 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
25213 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
25214 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
25217 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25218 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25219 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
25220 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25222 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
25223 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25224 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25227 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25228 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25229 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25230 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
25234 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
25235 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
25236 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
25237 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
25239 o Major security fixes:
25240 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
25241 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
25242 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
25243 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
25244 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
25247 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
25248 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25251 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
25252 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
25255 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
25256 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
25259 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
25260 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
25261 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
25264 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
25265 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25268 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
25269 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
25270 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
25271 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
25272 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
25274 o New directory authorities:
25275 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
25276 it has been down for months.
25277 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
25281 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
25282 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
25284 o Minor features (security):
25285 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25286 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25287 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
25290 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
25291 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
25292 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
25293 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
25294 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
25295 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
25296 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
25297 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
25298 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25300 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
25301 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
25302 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25303 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
25304 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25305 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
25306 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25307 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
25308 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
25310 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25311 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
25312 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
25313 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
25314 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25315 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25316 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25317 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25318 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25319 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25320 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25321 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
25322 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
25323 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
25324 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
25325 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
25326 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
25327 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25328 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25331 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
25332 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25333 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
25334 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
25337 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
25338 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
25339 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
25340 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
25343 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
25344 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25345 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
25346 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
25347 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
25350 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25351 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25352 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25353 certain censored countries by default again.
25356 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
25357 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25358 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
25359 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
25360 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25361 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
25362 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
25363 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
25365 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
25366 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25367 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25368 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25369 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25370 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25371 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25372 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25373 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25374 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25376 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25377 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
25378 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
25379 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
25380 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
25381 RelayBandwidth* values.
25382 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
25383 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
25384 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
25385 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
25386 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
25387 get_interface_address6().
25388 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
25389 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
25390 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
25392 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
25393 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
25394 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
25395 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25396 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
25397 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
25398 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25399 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
25400 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
25401 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25404 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25405 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25406 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25409 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
25410 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25411 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
25412 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
25413 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
25416 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
25417 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
25418 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
25419 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
25420 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
25421 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
25422 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
25423 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
25424 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
25427 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
25428 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
25429 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
25430 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25433 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
25434 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
25435 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
25436 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
25437 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
25438 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
25439 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
25442 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
25443 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
25444 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
25445 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
25446 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
25447 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
25448 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
25450 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25451 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25452 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25453 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25454 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
25457 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
25458 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
25459 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25460 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25461 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25462 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25463 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25464 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
25465 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
25466 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
25467 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
25468 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
25469 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
25470 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
25471 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
25472 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25473 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
25474 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25475 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25476 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25477 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25478 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25479 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25480 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25481 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25482 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25484 o Minor features (performance):
25485 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25487 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
25488 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
25489 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
25490 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
25491 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25492 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
25493 non-system include paths.
25494 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25495 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25498 o Minor features (other):
25499 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25501 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25502 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25503 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
25506 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
25507 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25508 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
25509 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25511 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
25512 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
25513 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
25514 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
25515 Should fix bug 537.
25516 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25517 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25518 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25519 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
25520 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25522 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25523 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
25524 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
25525 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
25526 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
25527 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25528 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25529 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25530 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
25531 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
25532 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
25533 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
25534 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25535 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25536 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25537 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25538 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25539 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25540 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
25541 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25542 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25543 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25544 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25545 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25546 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25549 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25550 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
25551 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25555 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
25556 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
25557 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
25558 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
25559 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
25562 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25563 Tor's x509 certificates.
25566 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25567 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25568 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25569 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25570 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25571 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25573 o Minor features (security):
25574 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25575 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25577 o Minor features (directory authority):
25578 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25579 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25580 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25581 bandwidthburst values.
25583 o Minor features (controller):
25584 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
25585 processes from running us out of memory.
25587 o Minor features (misc):
25588 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25589 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25590 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25591 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25593 o Deprecated features (controller):
25594 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25595 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
25596 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25599 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
25600 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
25602 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
25603 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
25604 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25605 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
25606 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
25607 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25608 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
25609 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
25611 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
25612 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25613 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25614 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25615 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
25616 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
25617 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25618 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
25620 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
25621 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
25622 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
25623 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
25624 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25625 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
25626 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25627 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
25628 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25629 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
25630 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
25631 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25633 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25634 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
25636 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25637 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25638 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25639 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25640 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25641 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25644 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
25645 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
25646 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
25647 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
25648 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
25650 o New directory authorities:
25651 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
25655 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
25656 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
25657 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
25658 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
25659 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
25660 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
25661 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
25662 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
25666 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25667 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25668 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25669 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25670 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25671 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25672 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25673 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25674 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25675 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
25678 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25679 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25680 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
25681 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
25685 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
25686 the request isn't encrypted.
25687 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25688 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
25689 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
25690 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
25691 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
25694 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
25695 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
25698 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
25701 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
25702 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
25703 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
25705 o New directory authorities:
25706 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
25709 o Major performance improvements:
25710 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25711 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25712 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25713 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25714 memory fragmentation.
25717 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25718 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25719 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25720 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25721 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
25722 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
25723 bodies when they receive them.
25724 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25725 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25726 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25728 o Minor performance improvements:
25729 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25730 of them were actually distinct.
25731 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
25732 interested in a given message.
25735 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
25736 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
25737 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
25738 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25739 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25740 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
25741 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25742 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
25743 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
25744 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
25745 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
25747 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
25748 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
25749 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
25750 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
25751 this country" and "1 person from this country".
25752 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
25753 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
25754 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
25755 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25756 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25758 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25759 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
25760 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
25762 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
25763 but client versions are not.
25764 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25765 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25767 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
25768 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
25769 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
25770 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
25771 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
25773 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
25774 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
25775 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
25778 o Minor features (controller):
25779 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
25780 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25781 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25782 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25784 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25785 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
25786 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25787 running a test network on a single host.
25788 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
25789 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
25791 o Minor features (bridges):
25792 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
25793 unencrypted connections.
25795 o Minor features (other):
25796 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25797 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25798 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25799 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25802 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25803 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25804 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25805 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25808 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25809 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25810 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25811 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25812 on network address.
25815 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25816 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25817 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25818 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25819 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25820 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25821 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25822 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25823 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25824 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25825 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25826 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25829 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25830 rebuild our server descriptor.
25831 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25832 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25833 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25834 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25835 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25836 nonstandard integer types.
25837 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25838 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25839 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25840 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25841 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25843 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25844 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25845 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25846 when they receive them.
25847 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25848 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25849 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25850 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25851 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25852 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25853 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25854 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25855 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25856 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25860 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
25861 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
25862 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25865 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
25866 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
25867 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
25868 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
25869 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
25870 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
25871 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
25872 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25875 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
25876 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
25877 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
25878 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
25880 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
25881 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
25884 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25885 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25888 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
25890 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
25891 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
25893 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
25894 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
25895 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
25896 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25897 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
25898 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
25899 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
25900 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25901 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
25902 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
25906 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
25907 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
25908 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
25911 - Make the unit tests build again.
25912 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
25913 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25914 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25915 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
25916 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
25917 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25918 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
25919 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
25920 the next one as a duplicate.
25923 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
25924 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
25925 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
25926 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
25929 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
25930 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
25931 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
25934 o New directory authorities:
25935 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
25939 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25940 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
25941 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
25942 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
25943 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
25944 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25945 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
25947 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
25948 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
25950 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25951 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25952 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
25953 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
25954 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
25955 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
25957 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
25958 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
25959 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25960 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
25961 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
25962 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25965 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
25966 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
25967 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25968 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25969 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25970 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25971 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25972 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25973 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
25974 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
25975 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
25976 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
25977 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
25978 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
25979 where Tor is blocked.
25980 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
25981 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25982 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25983 to a file periodically.
25984 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25985 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25986 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25990 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
25991 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
25992 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
25993 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
25994 in the relevant networkstatus document.
25995 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
25996 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
25997 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25998 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
25999 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
26000 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
26001 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
26002 by Karsten Loesing.
26003 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
26004 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
26005 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
26006 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
26007 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
26008 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26009 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26010 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26011 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26012 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26013 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26014 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26015 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26016 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26017 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26018 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
26019 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
26020 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26021 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26022 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26023 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26024 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
26025 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26026 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
26027 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
26028 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26029 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
26030 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26033 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26034 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26035 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
26036 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
26037 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
26038 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
26039 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
26040 even if your DirPort isn't on.
26041 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26042 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26043 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26045 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26046 multiple controller passwords.
26047 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
26048 router based on the router's purpose.
26049 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26050 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26051 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26052 the approved-routers file.
26055 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
26056 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
26057 well as a few minor bugs.
26060 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
26061 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
26062 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
26064 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26065 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26066 rebuild our server descriptor.
26068 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26069 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
26070 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
26071 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
26072 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
26073 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
26074 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
26075 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
26076 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
26077 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
26079 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
26080 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
26081 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
26082 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
26083 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
26084 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
26085 then be flexible about families.
26088 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26089 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26090 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
26094 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
26095 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
26096 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
26097 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
26098 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
26101 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26102 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26103 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26104 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26105 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26108 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26109 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
26111 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
26112 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
26113 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
26114 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
26115 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
26116 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
26117 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26119 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
26120 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
26121 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
26122 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
26125 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26126 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26129 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
26130 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
26131 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26134 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
26135 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
26136 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
26137 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
26138 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
26139 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
26140 addresses many more minor issues.
26142 o New directory authorities:
26143 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
26146 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
26147 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
26148 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
26149 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
26151 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
26152 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
26153 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26154 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26155 and are reaching it.
26156 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
26157 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
26158 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
26159 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
26160 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26161 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26164 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
26165 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
26167 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
26168 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
26169 no longer work for clients.
26170 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26171 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
26173 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
26174 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
26175 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
26176 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
26177 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
26178 enough directory information to build a circuit.
26179 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
26180 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
26181 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
26182 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
26183 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
26184 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
26186 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
26187 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
26188 requests for all of them.
26189 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
26191 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
26192 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
26193 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
26195 o New requirements:
26196 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26197 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26201 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26202 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26203 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26204 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26205 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
26206 networkstatuses that we already have.
26207 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26208 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26209 we start knowing some directory caches.
26210 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26211 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26212 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26213 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
26214 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
26215 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26216 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26217 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26218 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26220 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
26221 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
26222 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
26224 o Minor features (bridges):
26225 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
26226 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
26227 back to trying the bridge directly.
26228 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
26229 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
26231 o Minor features (controller):
26232 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26233 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26234 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26237 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26238 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26242 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
26243 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
26244 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26245 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
26246 reported by tup and ioerror.
26247 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
26248 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
26250 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
26251 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
26253 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
26254 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
26255 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
26257 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
26258 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26259 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
26260 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26261 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
26262 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26263 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
26265 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
26266 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
26267 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26269 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
26270 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
26271 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
26272 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
26273 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
26276 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26277 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26278 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26279 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26280 lists for a few hours each day.
26282 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26283 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26284 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26285 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26286 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26287 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26288 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26289 rend_process_relay_cell().
26291 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26292 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26293 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26294 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26295 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26296 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26297 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26298 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26300 o Major bugfixes (other):
26301 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26302 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26303 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26304 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26305 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26306 circuit cannibalization).
26307 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26308 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26309 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26310 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26311 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26312 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26315 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26316 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26318 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26319 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26320 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26321 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26322 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26323 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26324 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26325 were reporting the dir port.)
26326 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26327 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26328 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26329 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26330 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26332 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26333 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26334 the onion key from getting rotated.
26335 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26336 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26337 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26338 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26339 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26340 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26341 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26342 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26343 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26346 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
26347 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
26348 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
26349 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
26350 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
26351 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
26353 o Major features (directory system):
26354 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
26355 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
26356 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
26357 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
26358 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
26359 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
26360 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
26361 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
26362 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
26363 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
26364 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
26365 Partially implements proposal 122.
26366 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
26367 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
26370 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
26371 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
26372 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
26373 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
26375 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26376 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26377 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26378 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26379 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26380 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26381 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
26382 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
26383 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26385 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
26386 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
26388 - Allow certificates to include an address.
26389 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
26390 and download operations.
26391 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
26392 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
26393 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
26394 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
26395 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
26396 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
26398 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
26399 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
26402 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
26403 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26404 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26405 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26407 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26408 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26409 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26411 o Minor features (performance):
26412 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26413 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26414 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26415 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26416 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26417 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26418 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26421 o Minor features (compilation):
26422 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26423 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26425 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
26426 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
26427 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
26428 stick around indefinitely.
26429 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
26431 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
26432 v3 directory authority.
26433 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
26434 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
26436 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
26437 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
26438 "moria on moria:9031."
26439 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
26440 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
26441 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
26442 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
26443 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
26444 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
26445 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
26446 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
26448 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
26449 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
26450 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
26451 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
26452 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
26453 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
26454 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
26455 downloads than for other types.
26457 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
26458 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
26460 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26461 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26462 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26464 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26465 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26466 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26467 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26468 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26469 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26470 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26471 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26473 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26474 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
26475 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
26476 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
26477 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26478 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
26479 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
26480 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26481 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26482 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26483 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
26485 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26486 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
26489 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26490 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26491 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26492 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26493 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26494 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26495 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
26496 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
26497 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
26498 so that they all take the same named flags.
26501 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26502 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26503 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26506 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
26507 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
26508 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
26509 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
26510 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
26511 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
26513 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
26514 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
26515 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
26516 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
26517 annotations along with descriptors.
26518 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
26519 source, and its purpose.
26520 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26522 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26523 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26524 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
26525 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
26528 o Major features (directory authorities):
26529 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
26531 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
26532 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
26533 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
26534 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
26535 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
26536 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
26538 o Major features (v3 directory system):
26539 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
26540 and download the descriptors listed in them.
26541 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
26542 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
26543 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
26545 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26546 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26547 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26548 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
26551 o Major bugfixes (performance):
26552 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
26553 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
26554 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
26555 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
26557 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26558 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26559 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26560 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26561 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26562 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26564 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
26565 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
26567 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
26568 certificate is requested.
26569 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
26570 certificate requests.
26572 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
26573 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
26574 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
26575 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
26578 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
26579 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26580 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26581 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26583 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
26584 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
26586 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
26587 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
26588 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26589 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
26590 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
26591 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
26592 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
26593 downloads more sensible.
26594 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
26595 another when serving certificates.
26597 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26598 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26599 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26600 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26602 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
26603 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26604 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
26606 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26607 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26609 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
26610 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26611 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26612 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
26613 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26615 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
26616 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26617 WARN-severity events.
26618 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26619 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
26620 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26622 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
26623 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
26624 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
26626 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26627 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26628 circuit cannibalization).
26630 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26631 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
26632 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
26633 new module, networkstatus.c.
26634 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
26635 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
26636 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
26637 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
26638 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
26639 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
26640 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
26641 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
26642 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
26644 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
26646 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26647 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26650 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
26651 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
26652 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
26653 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
26655 o New directory authorities:
26656 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
26657 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
26659 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26660 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26661 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26663 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
26664 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
26665 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
26666 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
26667 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26668 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
26669 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
26670 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
26671 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
26672 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
26673 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26675 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26676 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26677 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26678 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26679 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26680 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26681 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
26682 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
26683 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
26685 o Minor features (security):
26686 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
26687 address maps to an internal address space.
26688 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26689 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26691 o Minor features (guard nodes):
26692 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26693 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26694 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26695 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26697 o Minor features (speed):
26698 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26699 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26700 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
26701 on big-endian hosts.)
26703 o Minor features (controller):
26704 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26705 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26706 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26707 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26710 o Removed features:
26711 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
26712 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
26713 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
26714 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
26715 implementation of proposal 104.
26716 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26717 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26718 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26719 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26720 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26721 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26722 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26723 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26726 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26727 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
26728 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26729 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
26730 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26731 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
26732 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26733 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26734 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
26735 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26736 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26737 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
26738 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
26739 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26740 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26741 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26742 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26743 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26744 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
26745 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
26747 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26748 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26749 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26751 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
26752 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
26753 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
26754 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
26757 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26758 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26759 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26760 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26761 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26764 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26765 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26768 o Major bugfixes (security):
26769 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26770 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26771 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26773 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26774 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26775 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26777 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26778 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26779 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26780 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26781 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26782 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26784 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26785 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26786 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26787 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26788 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26790 o Minor features (controller):
26791 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26792 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26793 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26794 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26796 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26797 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26798 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26799 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26800 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26801 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26802 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26803 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26805 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26806 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26807 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26808 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26809 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26810 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26811 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26812 if we ran off the end of the list.
26813 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26814 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26815 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26816 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26817 every time we change any piece of our config.
26818 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26819 encourage people using them to stop.
26820 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26822 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26823 servers to choose a circuit.
26824 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26825 unparseable piece of it.
26828 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
26829 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
26830 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
26831 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26834 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
26835 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
26836 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
26837 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
26838 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
26840 o New directory authorities:
26841 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
26844 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
26845 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
26846 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
26847 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
26849 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26850 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26851 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26853 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26854 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26855 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26856 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26857 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26858 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26860 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
26861 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
26862 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26865 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26866 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26867 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26868 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26872 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
26873 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
26874 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
26875 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
26877 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26878 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26880 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
26881 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
26882 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
26883 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
26884 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
26885 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26886 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26887 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26888 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26889 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
26892 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
26893 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
26894 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
26895 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
26896 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
26897 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
26899 o Removed features:
26900 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26901 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26902 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26903 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26906 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
26907 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
26908 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
26909 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
26910 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
26913 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26914 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26915 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26916 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26917 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
26918 reported by lodger.
26920 o Minor features (directory servers):
26921 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26922 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26924 o Minor features (directory voting):
26925 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
26928 o Minor features (security):
26929 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
26930 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26931 encourage people using them to stop.
26933 o Minor features (controller):
26934 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26935 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26936 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26937 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26938 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26939 cookie authentication file, and config option
26940 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26942 o Minor features (unit testing):
26943 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26944 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26945 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26946 logging for the unit tests.
26948 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26949 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26950 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26951 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26952 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26953 every time we change any piece of our config.
26954 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26955 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26956 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26958 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26959 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26960 the onion key from getting rotated.
26961 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
26962 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26963 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26966 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26967 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
26968 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
26970 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
26971 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
26972 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
26973 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
26976 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26977 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26978 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26979 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26980 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26981 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26983 o Major security fixes:
26984 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26985 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26988 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
26989 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
26990 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
26991 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26993 o Major security fixes:
26994 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26995 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26997 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26998 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
27001 o Minor features (performance):
27002 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
27003 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
27004 performance-intensive.
27005 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
27006 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
27007 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
27008 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
27009 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
27010 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
27014 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
27015 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
27016 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
27017 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
27021 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
27022 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
27023 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
27024 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
27025 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
27027 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
27028 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
27029 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
27030 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
27032 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
27033 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
27034 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
27035 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
27036 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
27038 o Major features (experimental):
27039 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
27040 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
27041 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
27042 handling before it's ready for use.
27045 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
27046 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
27047 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
27048 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27049 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
27050 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
27052 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
27053 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
27054 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
27055 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
27056 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
27058 o Major bugfixes (directory):
27059 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
27060 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27062 o Minor features (controller):
27063 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
27064 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27065 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
27066 from Robert Hogan.)
27067 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
27068 from Robert Hogan.)
27069 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
27070 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
27072 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
27073 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
27074 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
27075 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
27076 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27077 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
27078 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
27081 o Minor features (misc):
27082 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
27084 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
27085 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
27086 the authority identity key.
27087 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
27089 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
27090 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
27091 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
27094 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
27095 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
27096 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
27097 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
27098 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
27099 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
27100 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
27101 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27103 o Performance improvements:
27104 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
27106 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
27107 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
27110 o Deprecated and removed features:
27111 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
27112 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
27113 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
27114 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
27116 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27117 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
27118 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27119 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
27120 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
27121 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27122 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
27123 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
27124 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
27127 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
27128 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
27129 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27130 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
27131 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
27133 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
27134 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
27137 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27138 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
27139 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
27140 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
27141 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
27142 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
27143 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
27144 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
27145 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
27148 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
27149 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
27150 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
27151 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
27153 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
27154 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
27156 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27157 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
27158 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
27159 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
27160 routerlist while inserting a new router.
27161 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
27162 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
27164 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
27165 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
27166 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
27168 o Major bugfixes (security):
27169 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
27171 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
27172 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
27173 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
27174 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
27175 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
27176 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
27177 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
27178 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
27179 guard list unless we need to.
27181 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
27182 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
27183 don't get overused as guards.
27185 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27186 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
27187 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
27188 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
27189 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
27191 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27192 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
27193 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
27196 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27197 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
27198 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
27199 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
27200 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
27201 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
27202 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
27203 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
27206 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
27207 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
27208 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
27209 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
27211 o Minor features (directory):
27212 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
27213 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
27214 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
27215 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
27217 o Minor build issues:
27218 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
27219 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
27220 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
27221 in the tarball, not as "x".
27224 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
27225 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
27226 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
27227 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
27228 forward on a lot of fronts.
27230 o Major features, server usability:
27231 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
27232 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
27233 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
27234 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
27236 o Major features, client usability:
27237 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
27238 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
27239 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
27240 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
27241 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
27242 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
27243 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
27244 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
27246 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
27247 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
27248 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
27249 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
27250 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
27251 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
27253 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
27254 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
27255 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
27257 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
27258 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
27259 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
27260 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
27261 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
27263 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
27264 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
27265 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
27266 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
27268 o Major features, other:
27269 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
27270 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
27271 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
27272 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
27273 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
27276 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
27277 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
27278 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
27281 o Minor fixes (resource management):
27282 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
27283 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
27284 our allocated connection limit.
27285 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
27286 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
27287 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
27288 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
27289 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
27291 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
27292 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
27293 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
27295 o Minor features (build):
27296 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
27297 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
27298 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
27299 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
27301 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
27302 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
27303 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
27304 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
27305 Use this version consistently in log messages.
27307 o Minor features (logging):
27308 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
27309 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
27310 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
27311 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
27312 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
27315 o Minor features (directory system):
27316 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
27317 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
27318 not to serve V2 directory information.
27319 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
27320 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
27321 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
27323 o Minor features (controller):
27324 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
27325 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
27327 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
27328 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
27329 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
27330 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
27331 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
27332 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
27334 o Minor features (hidden services):
27335 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
27336 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
27337 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
27338 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
27340 o Minor features (other):
27342 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
27343 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
27344 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
27345 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
27346 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
27347 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
27348 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
27349 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
27350 longer a completely silly thing to do.
27351 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
27352 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
27353 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
27354 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
27356 o Removed features:
27357 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
27358 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
27359 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
27360 back an error and close the connection.
27361 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
27362 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
27365 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
27366 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
27367 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
27368 makes the log messages nicer.
27369 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
27370 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
27371 partial results on small file reads.
27373 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27374 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
27375 more often than they are allowed to appear.
27376 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
27377 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
27379 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
27380 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
27381 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
27382 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
27384 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27385 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
27386 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
27387 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
27388 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
27389 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
27390 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
27391 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
27392 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
27393 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
27394 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
27396 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
27397 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
27398 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
27400 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
27401 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
27402 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
27403 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
27405 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27406 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
27407 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
27409 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
27410 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
27413 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27414 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
27415 implicit in other procedure arguments.
27416 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
27417 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
27418 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
27419 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
27420 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
27421 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
27422 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
27423 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
27424 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
27427 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
27428 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
27429 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
27430 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
27432 o Directory authority changes:
27433 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
27434 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
27435 or use hidden services.
27437 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27438 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
27439 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
27440 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
27441 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
27442 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
27443 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
27444 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
27445 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
27448 o Major bugfixes (security):
27449 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
27450 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
27451 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
27453 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
27454 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
27455 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
27456 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
27457 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
27458 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
27459 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
27460 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
27461 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
27462 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
27465 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
27466 purpose=controller.
27467 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
27468 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
27470 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
27471 having a hard time downloading.
27472 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
27473 partial results on small file reads.
27474 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
27475 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
27476 the gaps in the store get very large.
27479 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
27480 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
27482 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
27483 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
27486 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
27487 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
27488 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
27489 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
27490 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
27491 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
27493 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
27494 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
27495 free speech on the Internet.
27498 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27499 get one we don't recognize.
27500 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
27501 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27504 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
27506 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
27507 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
27508 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
27509 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
27512 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27513 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27516 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
27517 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
27518 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27519 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
27520 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27521 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27522 ask for GUARDS too.
27525 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
27526 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
27527 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
27528 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
27529 on Win98 and friends again.
27531 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27532 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
27533 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
27536 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
27537 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
27538 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
27539 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
27540 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
27541 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
27542 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
27543 and maybe also bug 397.)
27545 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27546 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27547 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27549 o Minor bugfixes (server):
27550 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27553 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
27554 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
27555 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
27556 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
27557 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
27559 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27560 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
27561 load on authorities.
27563 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27564 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27565 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
27566 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
27568 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27570 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
27571 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
27572 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
27573 the last of bug 326.)
27574 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
27575 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
27579 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
27580 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27581 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27582 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27583 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
27584 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
27585 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
27587 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
27588 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
27590 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27591 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
27592 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
27594 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
27595 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27596 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27598 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27599 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27600 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27601 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
27603 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27604 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27606 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27607 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27608 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27611 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27612 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27613 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27614 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
27615 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
27616 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
27617 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
27618 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27619 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27620 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
27621 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
27622 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
27623 other than file-not-found.
27624 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
27625 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
27626 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27627 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27628 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27629 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27630 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27631 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27632 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
27633 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
27634 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27635 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27636 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27637 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27638 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
27640 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
27642 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
27643 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27645 o Minor features (controller):
27646 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27647 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27648 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27650 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27651 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27652 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27653 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27654 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27655 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27656 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27657 connected or resolved cell.
27659 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27660 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27661 some profiles, but not others.)
27662 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27663 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27664 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27667 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
27669 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
27670 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
27671 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
27672 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
27673 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
27674 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
27675 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
27676 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
27677 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27678 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27679 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27680 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27681 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27682 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27683 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27685 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27688 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
27689 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
27690 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
27691 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
27692 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
27693 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
27694 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
27696 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
27697 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
27698 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27699 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
27700 buckets go absurdly negative.
27701 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
27702 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
27705 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
27706 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
27707 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
27708 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
27709 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
27710 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
27711 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
27712 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
27715 o Major bugfixes (other):
27716 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27717 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27718 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27719 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
27721 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
27723 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
27724 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
27726 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
27727 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
27728 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
27729 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
27730 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
27731 to wait for 0.2.0.)
27733 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
27734 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
27735 possible memory-stomping bugs.
27736 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
27737 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
27739 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
27740 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
27741 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
27742 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
27743 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
27744 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
27746 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27747 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
27748 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27749 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27751 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27752 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27753 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27754 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27755 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27756 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
27757 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
27758 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
27759 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
27760 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
27761 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27762 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27763 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27765 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
27766 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
27767 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
27768 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
27769 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
27770 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
27771 to the resulting address.
27774 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
27775 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
27776 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
27777 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
27780 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27781 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
27783 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
27784 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
27785 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27786 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27787 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27788 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27789 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
27790 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
27791 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
27792 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
27793 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
27794 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
27795 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
27796 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
27797 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
27798 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
27799 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
27802 o Minor features (controller):
27803 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27804 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27805 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27806 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27807 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
27808 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27809 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27813 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
27815 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
27816 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
27817 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
27818 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
27819 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
27820 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
27823 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
27824 weren't planning to resolve.
27825 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
27826 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
27827 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27828 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27829 the controller from learning about current events.
27831 o Minor features (more controller status events):
27832 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
27833 learn when our address changes.
27834 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
27835 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
27836 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
27837 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
27839 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
27840 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
27841 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
27842 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
27843 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
27844 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
27845 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
27846 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
27847 are accepted by a directory.
27848 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
27849 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
27850 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
27851 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
27852 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
27854 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
27855 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
27856 about changes to DNS server status.
27858 o Minor features (directory):
27859 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
27860 too much load to the exit nodes.
27863 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
27865 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
27866 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
27867 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
27868 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
27869 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
27871 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
27872 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
27873 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
27875 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
27876 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
27877 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
27878 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
27879 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
27880 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
27881 config options if you like.
27883 o Minor features (config and docs):
27884 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27885 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27886 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27887 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27888 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27890 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27891 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27892 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
27893 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27894 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27896 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27897 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27898 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27899 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27900 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27901 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27902 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
27903 documentation: "make check-docs".
27904 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27905 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27907 o Minor features (DNS):
27908 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
27909 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
27910 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
27911 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27912 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
27913 our tests for DNS hijacking.
27915 o Minor features (directory):
27916 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
27917 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
27918 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
27919 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
27920 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
27921 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
27922 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
27923 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
27924 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
27925 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
27926 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
27927 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
27928 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27929 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27930 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27931 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
27932 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
27933 for the thing we're trying to download.
27934 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
27935 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
27936 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
27938 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
27939 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
27940 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
27943 o Minor features (controller):
27944 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27945 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27947 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27948 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27949 entry guard status as it changes.
27951 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
27952 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27953 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27954 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27955 to set log options.
27956 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27957 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27958 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27959 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27962 o Major bugfixes (security):
27963 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27964 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27965 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27966 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27968 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27969 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27970 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27971 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27972 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27974 o Major bugfixes (other):
27975 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
27976 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
27977 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
27978 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
27980 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
27981 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
27982 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
27983 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
27984 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
27985 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
27989 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27990 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27991 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
27992 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
27993 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
27995 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
27996 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
27998 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27999 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
28000 family lists conveniently.
28001 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
28002 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
28003 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
28005 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
28006 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
28008 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
28009 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
28010 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
28011 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
28012 if their identity keys are as expected.
28013 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
28014 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
28015 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
28017 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28018 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
28019 reported by Mike Perry.
28020 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
28021 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
28022 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
28023 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
28026 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
28027 o Security bugfixes:
28028 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
28029 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
28030 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
28031 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
28035 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
28036 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
28037 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
28040 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
28042 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
28043 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
28044 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
28047 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
28048 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
28049 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
28050 watching for STREAM events.
28051 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
28052 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
28053 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
28054 operations, for profiling.
28057 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
28058 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
28059 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
28060 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
28061 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
28062 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
28064 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
28068 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
28069 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
28070 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
28071 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
28072 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
28074 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
28075 correctly in the Windows installer.
28076 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
28077 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
28078 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
28079 MIPSpro C compiler.
28080 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
28081 when we're running as a client.
28084 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
28086 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
28087 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
28088 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
28089 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
28090 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
28091 its circuits on demand.
28092 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
28093 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
28094 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
28095 connections more stable on average.
28096 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
28097 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
28098 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
28100 o Security bugfixes:
28101 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
28102 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
28105 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
28107 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
28108 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
28109 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
28110 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
28111 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
28112 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
28113 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
28114 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
28117 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
28119 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
28120 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
28121 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
28122 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
28123 routers for even longer.
28124 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
28125 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
28126 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
28127 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
28128 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
28129 caching HTTP proxies.
28130 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
28133 o Minor features, controller:
28134 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
28135 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
28136 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
28137 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
28139 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
28140 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
28141 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
28142 working much like those for circuit events.
28143 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
28144 about the current status of a router.
28145 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
28146 a router's status has changed.
28147 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
28148 can tell which events and features are supported.
28149 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
28150 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
28152 o Security bugfixes:
28153 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
28154 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
28157 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
28158 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
28159 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
28160 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
28161 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
28162 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
28163 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
28164 long nicknames where appropriate.
28165 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
28166 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
28167 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
28168 chews through many circuits before giving up.
28169 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
28170 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
28171 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
28172 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
28173 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
28174 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
28176 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
28177 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
28178 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
28180 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
28181 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
28182 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
28183 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
28184 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
28185 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
28186 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
28187 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
28188 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
28189 (reported by fookoowa).
28190 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
28191 and reported by some Centos users.
28192 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
28193 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
28194 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
28195 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
28196 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
28197 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
28198 before we check for libevent.
28201 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
28203 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
28204 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
28205 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
28206 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
28207 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
28208 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
28209 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
28210 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
28211 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
28212 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
28213 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
28214 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
28215 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
28216 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
28217 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
28218 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
28219 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
28220 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
28221 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
28222 lets you turn it off.
28223 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
28224 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
28225 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
28226 us into the directory more quickly.
28228 o New/improved config options:
28229 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
28230 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
28231 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
28232 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
28233 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
28234 all the machines on the same subnet.
28235 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
28236 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
28237 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
28238 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
28239 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
28240 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
28241 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
28242 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
28243 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
28244 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
28246 o Minor features, controller:
28247 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
28248 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
28249 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
28250 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
28251 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
28252 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
28253 for more information.
28254 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
28255 best guess to the user.
28256 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
28257 descriptor has changed.
28258 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
28260 o Minor features, other:
28261 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
28262 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
28263 useful to the network.
28264 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
28265 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
28266 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
28267 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
28268 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
28269 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
28270 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
28271 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
28272 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
28273 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
28274 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
28275 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
28276 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
28277 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
28278 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
28280 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
28281 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
28282 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
28283 could return an unnamed server instead.
28284 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
28285 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
28286 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
28287 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
28288 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
28289 a more attractive target for compromise.)
28290 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
28291 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
28292 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
28294 o Major bugfixes, other:
28295 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
28296 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
28297 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
28298 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
28299 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
28300 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
28301 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
28302 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
28303 its circuits on demand.
28304 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
28305 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
28306 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
28307 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
28309 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
28310 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
28311 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
28312 we don't recognize.
28313 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
28315 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
28316 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
28317 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
28318 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
28319 "extendcircuit" request.
28320 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
28321 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
28322 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
28324 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
28325 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
28326 instead of "X resolved to X".
28327 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
28328 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
28329 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
28330 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
28331 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
28332 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
28333 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
28334 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
28335 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
28337 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
28338 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
28339 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
28340 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
28341 result more than once.
28342 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
28343 non-versioning dirservers.
28344 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
28345 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
28347 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
28348 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
28349 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
28350 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
28351 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
28352 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
28353 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
28354 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
28355 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
28357 o Packaging, features:
28358 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
28359 now universal binaries.
28360 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
28361 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
28362 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
28364 o Packaging, bugfixes:
28365 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
28366 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
28367 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
28368 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
28370 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
28371 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
28372 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
28375 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
28376 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
28377 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
28381 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
28383 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
28384 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
28385 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
28386 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
28387 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
28388 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
28389 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
28390 it can't resolve its hostname.
28393 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
28394 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
28395 "extendcircuit" request.
28396 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
28397 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
28398 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
28399 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
28401 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
28402 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
28403 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
28405 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
28406 methods: these are known to be buggy.
28407 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
28408 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
28409 we don't recognize.
28412 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
28414 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
28415 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
28416 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
28417 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
28418 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
28419 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
28420 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
28421 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
28422 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
28423 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
28424 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
28425 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
28426 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
28427 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
28428 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
28429 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
28430 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
28431 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
28432 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
28433 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
28434 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
28435 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
28436 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
28437 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
28440 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
28441 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
28442 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
28443 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
28444 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
28445 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
28446 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
28447 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
28448 recommendation system saner.)
28449 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
28451 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
28452 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
28453 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
28454 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
28455 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
28456 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
28457 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
28458 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
28459 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
28460 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
28461 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
28462 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
28463 your ORPort is set.
28464 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
28465 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
28466 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
28467 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
28468 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
28469 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
28470 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
28471 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
28472 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
28473 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
28474 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
28475 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
28477 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
28478 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
28479 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
28480 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
28481 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
28482 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
28485 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
28486 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
28487 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
28488 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
28489 our DirPort now, etc.
28490 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
28491 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
28492 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
28493 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
28494 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
28495 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
28496 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
28498 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
28499 whether the config options are bad or good.
28500 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
28501 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
28502 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
28503 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
28504 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
28505 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
28506 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
28507 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
28510 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
28511 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
28512 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
28513 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
28514 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
28515 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
28516 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
28517 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
28518 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
28519 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
28520 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
28521 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
28522 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
28523 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
28524 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
28525 of it), is not therefore "up".
28526 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
28527 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
28528 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
28529 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
28530 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
28531 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
28534 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
28536 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
28537 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
28538 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
28539 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
28540 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
28541 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
28542 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
28543 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
28544 test reachability, so you won't publish.
28547 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
28548 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
28549 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
28550 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
28551 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
28553 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
28554 own server descriptor yet.
28557 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
28559 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
28560 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
28561 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
28562 make sure to test via one of these.
28563 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
28564 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
28565 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
28566 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
28567 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
28569 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
28570 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
28571 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
28574 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
28575 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
28576 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
28577 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
28578 directory authority.
28579 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
28580 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
28581 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
28582 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
28585 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
28586 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
28587 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
28589 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
28590 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
28591 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
28592 current guards when picking a new guard.
28593 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
28594 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
28595 when we had more than one pending.
28596 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
28597 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
28598 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
28599 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
28600 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
28601 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
28602 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
28603 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
28604 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
28605 debug the reachability problems better.
28607 o Log / documentation fixes:
28608 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
28609 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
28610 about protocol violations by others.
28611 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
28612 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
28613 about what happened to our old torrc.
28616 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
28618 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
28620 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
28621 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
28622 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
28623 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
28626 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
28628 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
28629 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
28630 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
28631 old ORPort and receive connections.
28632 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
28634 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
28635 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
28636 and network-statuses.
28637 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
28638 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
28639 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
28640 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
28642 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
28645 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28646 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28647 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28650 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
28652 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
28653 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
28654 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
28655 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
28656 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
28659 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
28660 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
28662 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
28663 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
28664 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
28665 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
28666 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
28667 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
28668 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
28669 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
28670 rather than not sending anything back at all.
28671 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
28672 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
28673 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
28674 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
28675 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
28676 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
28677 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
28678 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
28679 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
28680 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
28681 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
28682 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
28683 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
28684 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
28685 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
28686 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
28687 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
28688 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
28689 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
28690 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
28691 default ulimit -n is 1024.
28694 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
28695 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28696 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28697 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28700 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
28702 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
28703 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
28704 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
28705 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
28706 entry guards running these flawed versions.
28707 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
28708 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
28709 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
28710 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
28711 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
28714 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
28715 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
28717 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
28718 and it is confusing some users.
28719 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
28720 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
28721 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
28722 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
28723 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
28726 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
28728 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
28729 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
28730 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
28731 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
28732 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
28733 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28734 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28735 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
28736 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
28737 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
28738 dirport is set for now.
28740 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
28741 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28742 unattached before we fail it?
28743 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28744 at least this many seconds ago.
28745 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28746 at least this many seconds ago.
28749 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
28750 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
28751 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
28752 or resolve-wait stream.
28753 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
28754 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
28755 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
28756 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
28757 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
28758 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
28759 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
28760 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
28762 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
28763 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
28764 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
28765 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
28766 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
28767 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
28768 given as hex digests.
28769 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
28770 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
28771 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
28772 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
28773 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
28774 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
28775 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
28776 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
28779 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28780 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
28781 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
28782 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
28783 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
28784 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
28785 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
28786 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
28787 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
28788 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
28789 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
28792 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
28793 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
28794 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
28795 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
28796 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
28797 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28798 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28801 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
28802 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
28803 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
28804 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
28805 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
28806 misreading their logs.
28807 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
28808 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
28809 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
28810 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
28811 valid router descriptors.
28812 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
28813 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
28814 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
28815 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
28816 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
28817 silently resetting it to its default.
28818 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
28820 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
28823 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
28824 use clean circuits.
28825 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
28826 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
28827 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
28828 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
28829 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
28831 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28832 because older Tors do not understand it.
28833 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
28837 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
28838 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
28839 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
28840 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
28841 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
28842 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
28843 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
28844 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
28845 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
28846 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
28847 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
28849 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
28850 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
28851 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
28852 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
28854 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
28855 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
28858 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28859 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28860 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28861 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28862 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28863 without getting overloaded.
28864 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
28866 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
28867 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
28868 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
28869 be forward-compatible.
28870 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
28871 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
28872 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
28873 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
28875 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
28876 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
28877 and OR conns to port 443.
28878 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
28879 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
28881 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
28882 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
28883 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
28884 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
28885 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
28886 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
28887 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
28890 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28891 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28892 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28893 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28895 o Other important bugfixes:
28896 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28897 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28898 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28899 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28901 o Backported features:
28902 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28903 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28904 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28905 without getting overloaded.
28906 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28907 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28908 503's whenever they feel busy.
28909 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28910 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28911 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28912 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28913 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28916 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
28917 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
28918 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
28919 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
28920 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
28921 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
28922 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
28923 know if the crashes continue.
28924 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
28925 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
28926 seg faults in at least some cases.)
28927 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
28928 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
28929 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
28932 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
28933 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
28934 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
28935 try to be a bit more fair.
28936 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
28937 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
28938 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
28939 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
28940 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
28941 bug that let it go negative.
28942 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
28943 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
28944 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
28945 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
28946 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28947 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28948 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28949 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28950 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
28951 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
28952 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
28955 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
28957 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
28958 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
28959 service descriptors.
28962 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
28963 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
28964 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
28965 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
28967 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
28968 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
28969 versions *are* still recommended.
28970 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28971 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28972 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28973 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28974 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28975 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28976 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
28977 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
28979 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
28980 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
28981 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
28982 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
28983 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
28984 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
28985 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
28986 on it. Not used by clients yet.
28987 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
28988 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
28989 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
28990 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28991 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
28992 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28993 established a circuit.
28994 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
28995 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
28996 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
28997 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
29000 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
29001 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29002 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
29003 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
29004 quickly enough. Oops.
29005 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
29007 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29008 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
29011 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
29012 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
29013 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
29014 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
29015 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
29016 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
29017 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
29018 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
29019 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
29020 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
29021 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
29022 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
29023 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
29024 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
29025 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
29026 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
29027 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
29030 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
29031 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
29032 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
29033 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
29034 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
29035 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
29036 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
29037 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
29038 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
29039 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
29040 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
29041 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
29042 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
29043 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
29044 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
29045 connections more reliable.
29048 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
29049 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
29050 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
29051 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
29052 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
29053 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
29054 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
29055 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
29056 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
29057 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
29058 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
29059 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
29060 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
29061 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
29065 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
29066 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
29067 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
29068 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
29069 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
29070 need to be uint64_t's.
29071 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
29072 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
29073 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
29075 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
29077 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
29078 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
29079 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
29080 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
29081 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
29082 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
29083 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
29085 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
29086 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
29087 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
29088 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
29089 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
29090 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
29091 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
29092 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
29093 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
29094 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
29095 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
29096 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
29097 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
29100 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
29101 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
29102 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
29103 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
29104 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
29105 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
29106 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
29108 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
29109 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
29110 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
29111 can answer v2 directory requests too.
29112 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
29113 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
29114 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
29115 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
29117 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
29118 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
29119 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
29120 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
29121 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
29122 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
29123 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
29124 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
29125 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
29126 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
29127 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
29128 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
29129 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
29130 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
29131 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
29133 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
29134 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
29137 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
29138 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29139 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
29140 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
29141 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
29142 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
29143 too -- so detect and avoid this.
29144 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
29146 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
29147 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
29148 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
29149 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
29150 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
29151 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
29152 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
29153 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
29154 rendezvous circuits.
29155 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
29157 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29158 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
29159 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
29160 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
29161 advertising it because of hibernation.
29162 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
29163 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
29164 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
29165 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
29166 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
29167 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
29168 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
29169 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
29170 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
29171 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
29172 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
29173 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
29174 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
29175 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
29178 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
29179 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29180 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
29181 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
29182 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
29183 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
29184 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
29185 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
29186 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
29187 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
29188 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
29189 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
29190 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
29191 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
29192 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
29193 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
29194 connections once a week.
29195 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
29196 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
29197 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
29198 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
29199 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
29200 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
29202 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
29203 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
29204 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
29206 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29207 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
29208 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
29209 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
29210 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
29211 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
29212 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
29213 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
29214 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
29215 firewall options forbid.
29216 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
29217 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
29218 can only proxy to certain destinations.
29219 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
29220 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
29221 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
29222 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
29223 aids some statistical attacks.
29224 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
29225 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
29226 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
29227 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
29229 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29230 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
29231 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
29232 server descriptor sometimes.
29233 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
29234 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
29235 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
29236 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
29237 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
29238 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
29239 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
29240 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
29242 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
29243 case the controller wants to change that too.
29244 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
29245 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
29246 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
29247 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
29249 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
29250 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
29251 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
29253 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
29254 descriptors that they know they will reject.
29256 o Features and updates:
29257 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
29258 significantly faster.
29259 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
29260 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
29261 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
29262 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
29263 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
29264 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
29265 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
29266 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
29267 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
29268 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
29269 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
29270 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
29271 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
29272 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
29273 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
29274 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
29275 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
29276 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
29277 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
29278 as authoritative dirserver.
29279 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
29280 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
29281 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
29284 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
29285 o Usability improvements:
29286 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
29287 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
29289 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
29290 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
29291 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
29293 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
29294 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
29295 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
29296 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
29297 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
29298 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
29299 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
29300 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
29301 memory leaks better.
29302 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
29303 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
29304 their operators to pay close attention.
29305 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
29306 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
29308 o Performance improvements:
29309 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
29310 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
29311 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
29312 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
29313 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
29314 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
29315 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
29316 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
29317 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
29318 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
29319 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
29320 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
29321 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
29322 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
29323 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
29324 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
29325 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
29327 o Security improvements:
29328 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
29329 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
29330 fingerprint of server.
29331 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
29332 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
29333 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
29335 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29336 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
29337 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
29338 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
29339 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
29340 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
29341 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
29342 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
29343 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
29344 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
29345 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
29346 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
29347 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
29348 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
29349 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
29350 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
29351 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
29352 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
29353 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
29354 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
29355 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
29357 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
29358 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
29359 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
29361 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
29362 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
29364 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
29365 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
29366 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
29367 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
29368 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
29369 of the controller protocol.
29370 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
29371 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
29372 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
29375 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
29376 o New features (major):
29377 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
29378 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
29379 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
29380 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
29381 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
29382 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
29383 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
29384 we're using a default DirPort.
29385 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
29387 o New features (minor):
29388 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
29389 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
29390 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
29391 mirrors still cache and serve it).
29392 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
29393 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
29394 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
29395 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
29396 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
29397 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
29398 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
29399 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
29400 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
29401 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
29402 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
29403 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
29404 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
29405 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
29406 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
29408 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
29409 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
29410 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
29411 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
29412 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
29413 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
29414 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
29415 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
29417 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
29418 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
29419 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
29420 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
29421 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
29422 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
29423 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
29424 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
29425 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
29426 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
29428 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
29429 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
29430 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
29431 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
29432 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
29434 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29435 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
29436 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
29438 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
29439 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
29441 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
29442 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
29443 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
29444 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
29445 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
29446 don't warn twice about the same name.
29447 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
29448 if we've not heard of the server.
29449 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
29450 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
29453 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
29454 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29455 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
29456 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
29457 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
29458 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
29459 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
29460 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
29461 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
29462 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
29463 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
29464 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
29465 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
29466 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
29467 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
29470 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
29471 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
29472 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
29473 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
29474 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
29476 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
29477 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
29478 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
29479 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
29480 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
29481 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
29485 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
29486 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
29487 nickname) is reachable by you.
29488 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
29491 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29492 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
29493 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
29494 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
29495 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
29496 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
29497 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
29498 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
29499 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
29500 we fail to connect).
29501 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
29502 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
29503 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
29504 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
29506 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
29507 it was self-testing that told us so.
29510 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
29511 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
29512 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
29513 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
29514 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
29515 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
29516 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
29517 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
29518 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
29519 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
29520 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
29521 exit policy using him for any exits.
29522 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
29525 o New controller features/fixes:
29526 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
29527 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
29528 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
29529 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
29530 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
29531 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
29532 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
29533 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
29534 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
29536 o Start on the new directory design:
29537 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
29538 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
29540 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
29541 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
29542 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
29543 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
29545 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
29546 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
29547 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
29548 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
29549 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
29550 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
29551 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
29552 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
29555 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
29556 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
29557 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
29558 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
29559 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
29560 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
29561 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
29562 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
29563 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
29564 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
29566 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
29567 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
29568 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
29569 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
29570 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
29571 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
29572 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
29573 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
29574 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
29576 o Config option changes:
29577 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
29578 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
29579 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
29580 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
29581 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
29582 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
29584 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
29585 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
29586 people have started using them for spam too.
29587 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
29588 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
29589 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
29590 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
29591 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
29592 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
29593 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
29594 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
29595 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
29596 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
29597 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
29598 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
29599 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
29600 services faster on the service end.
29601 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
29602 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
29603 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
29604 it a fair shake next time we try.
29605 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
29606 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
29607 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
29608 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
29609 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
29610 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
29611 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
29612 able to discover them.
29613 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
29614 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
29615 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
29616 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
29617 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
29618 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
29619 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
29620 testing for reachability.
29621 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
29622 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
29624 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
29626 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
29627 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
29630 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
29631 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
29633 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29634 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
29635 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
29636 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
29639 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
29640 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29641 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
29643 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
29644 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
29647 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
29648 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
29651 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
29652 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
29653 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
29654 options, getinfo keys.
29657 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
29658 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29659 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
29660 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
29661 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
29662 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
29663 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
29665 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
29666 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
29670 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
29671 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
29672 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
29674 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
29676 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
29677 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
29678 circuit events and we go offline.
29679 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
29680 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
29681 you don't have enough intro points already.
29683 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
29684 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
29685 many bytes we've used in this time period.
29686 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
29687 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
29688 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
29689 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
29690 enabled by default yet.
29692 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
29693 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
29694 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
29695 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
29696 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
29699 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
29700 o New directory servers:
29701 - tor26 has changed IP address.
29703 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29704 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
29705 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
29706 pthreads libraries.
29707 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
29708 claims its dirport is 0.
29709 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
29710 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
29714 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
29715 o New directory servers:
29716 - tor26 has changed IP address.
29718 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
29719 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
29721 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
29722 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
29723 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
29724 ports that have changed.
29725 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
29727 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
29728 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
29729 Windows-style errno back.
29730 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
29732 want to make it an NT service.
29733 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
29734 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
29735 name, give the full name in our response.
29736 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
29737 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
29738 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
29739 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
29740 pthreads libraries.
29742 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29743 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
29747 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
29748 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
29749 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
29750 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
29751 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
29754 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
29755 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29756 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
29757 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
29758 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
29759 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
29760 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
29761 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
29764 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
29766 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
29767 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
29768 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
29769 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
29770 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
29771 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
29773 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
29774 temporarily unreachable.
29775 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
29779 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
29780 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
29781 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
29782 our protocol works.
29783 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
29787 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
29788 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
29789 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
29790 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
29791 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
29795 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
29796 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
29797 libevent before 1.1a.
29800 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
29802 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
29803 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
29804 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
29805 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
29806 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
29808 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
29809 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
29810 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
29811 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
29812 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
29813 of CPU time plus memory.
29814 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
29815 normal web requests.
29816 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
29817 tor_lookup_hostname().
29818 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
29819 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
29820 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
29821 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
29822 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
29823 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
29825 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
29826 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
29827 HttpProxyAuthenticator
29828 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
29829 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
29830 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
29832 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
29833 the user asks you to.
29834 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
29835 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
29836 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
29837 their descriptors are being rejected.
29838 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
29842 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
29844 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
29845 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
29846 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
29848 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
29850 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
29852 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
29853 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
29854 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
29855 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
29856 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
29857 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
29858 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
29859 keys) from the exit server's process.
29860 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
29861 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
29862 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
29863 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
29864 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
29865 point at your Tor server.
29866 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
29867 you're not sending a socks reply back.
29870 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
29871 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
29872 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
29873 to make it easier to write controllers.
29876 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
29878 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
29879 installing on Tiger.
29880 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
29881 complain during installation.
29882 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
29883 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
29884 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
29885 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
29886 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
29887 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
29889 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
29890 something more reasonable when first installing.
29891 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
29894 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
29896 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
29897 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
29899 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
29900 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
29901 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
29902 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
29903 when using the default exit policy.
29904 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
29905 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
29906 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
29907 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
29908 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
29909 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
29910 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
29911 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
29912 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
29913 we fetched a new directory.
29914 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
29915 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
29918 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
29919 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
29920 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
29921 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
29922 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
29923 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
29924 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
29925 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
29927 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
29928 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
29929 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
29930 save memory on systems that need to fork.
29931 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
29932 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
29933 is valid without actually launching Tor.
29934 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
29935 rather than just rejecting it.
29938 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
29940 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
29941 we didn't like its cert.
29943 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
29944 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
29945 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
29946 on patch from Adam Langley.
29947 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
29948 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
29949 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
29950 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
29952 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
29953 directory every time you regenerate it.
29954 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
29955 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
29958 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
29959 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
29960 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
29961 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
29962 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
29965 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
29967 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
29968 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
29969 TLS errors better in other situations too.
29970 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
29971 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
29972 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
29973 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
29974 and don't log when you are.
29975 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
29976 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
29978 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
29979 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
29980 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
29981 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
29982 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
29985 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
29986 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
29987 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
29988 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
29989 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
29990 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
29991 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
29992 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
29993 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
29994 nickname+key are allowed.
29995 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
29996 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
29997 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
29998 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
29999 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
30000 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
30001 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
30002 have quite wrong clocks).
30003 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
30004 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
30005 - Efficiency improvements:
30006 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
30007 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
30008 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
30009 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
30010 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
30011 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
30012 lowercase and be done with it.
30013 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
30014 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
30015 to abandon partially built circuits.
30016 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
30017 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
30019 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
30021 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
30022 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
30023 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
30024 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
30026 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
30027 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
30029 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
30030 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
30031 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
30032 obeying the exit policy internally.
30033 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
30034 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
30036 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
30037 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
30038 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
30039 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
30041 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
30042 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
30043 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
30044 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
30045 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
30047 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
30048 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
30049 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
30050 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
30051 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
30052 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
30053 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
30054 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
30055 descriptors we just dropped.
30056 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
30057 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
30058 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
30059 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
30060 artificially capped at 500kB.
30063 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
30064 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30065 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
30066 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
30067 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
30068 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
30069 busy for more than 100 seconds.
30072 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
30073 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
30074 - Fixes on reachability detection:
30075 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
30076 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
30077 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
30078 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
30079 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
30080 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
30081 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
30082 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
30083 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
30084 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
30085 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
30086 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
30087 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
30088 server not already connected to them.
30089 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
30090 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
30091 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
30093 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
30095 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
30096 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
30097 are in a different state than they actually are.
30098 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
30099 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
30100 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
30102 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
30103 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
30104 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
30106 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
30107 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
30108 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
30109 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
30110 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
30111 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
30112 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
30114 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
30115 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
30116 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
30117 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
30120 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
30121 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30122 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
30123 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
30124 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
30125 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
30126 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
30127 creating actual system users.
30128 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
30129 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
30133 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
30135 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
30136 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
30137 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
30138 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
30139 hidden services better.
30140 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
30142 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
30143 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
30144 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
30145 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
30146 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
30147 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
30148 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
30149 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
30150 patch by Matt Edman).
30151 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
30152 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
30153 required exit node for certain sites.
30154 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
30155 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
30156 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
30157 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
30158 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
30159 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
30160 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
30161 rather than just "success" or "failure".
30162 - A more sane version numbering system. See
30163 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
30164 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
30165 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
30167 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
30168 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
30169 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
30170 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
30171 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
30172 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
30173 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
30175 o Robustness/stability fixes:
30176 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
30177 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
30178 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
30180 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
30181 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
30182 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
30184 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
30185 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
30186 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
30188 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
30189 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
30190 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
30191 that will want high uptime circuits.
30192 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
30193 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
30194 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
30195 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
30196 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
30197 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
30198 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
30199 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
30200 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
30201 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
30202 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
30203 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
30204 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
30205 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
30206 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
30207 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
30208 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
30209 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
30210 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
30211 when we try to launch one.
30212 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
30213 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
30214 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
30215 "ShutdownWaitLength".
30216 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
30217 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
30218 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
30219 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
30220 and to take errno into account where possible.
30223 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
30224 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
30225 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
30226 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
30227 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
30228 file more reasonable.
30229 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
30230 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
30231 addresses -- it won't.
30232 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
30233 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
30234 for google.com" problem.
30235 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
30236 so it's not just "unknown platform".
30237 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
30238 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
30239 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
30240 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
30242 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
30243 they could use instead.
30244 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
30245 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
30246 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
30247 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
30248 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
30249 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
30250 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
30251 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
30252 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
30254 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
30258 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
30259 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
30261 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
30262 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
30263 private-IP addresses.
30264 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
30265 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
30267 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
30268 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
30269 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
30270 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
30271 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
30272 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
30273 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
30275 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
30276 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
30277 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
30278 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
30279 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
30280 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
30281 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
30282 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
30284 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
30286 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
30287 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
30288 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
30289 whether the server is hibernating.
30292 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
30293 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
30294 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
30295 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
30296 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
30297 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
30298 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
30299 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
30300 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
30301 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
30302 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
30303 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
30304 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
30305 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
30306 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
30308 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
30309 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
30310 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
30311 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
30312 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
30313 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
30314 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
30315 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
30316 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
30317 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
30318 existing torrc files.
30319 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
30322 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
30323 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30324 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
30325 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
30326 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
30327 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
30328 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
30329 the win32 SYSTEM account.
30330 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
30331 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
30332 file descriptors available.
30333 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
30334 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
30335 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
30338 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
30339 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30340 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
30341 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
30343 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
30344 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
30345 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
30346 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
30347 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
30349 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
30350 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
30351 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
30352 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
30353 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
30354 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
30355 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
30356 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
30357 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
30358 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
30359 800kB/s of capacity.
30360 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
30363 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
30364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30365 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
30366 need as much processor time.
30367 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
30368 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
30369 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
30370 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
30371 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
30372 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
30373 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
30374 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
30375 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
30376 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
30377 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
30378 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
30380 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
30381 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
30382 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
30383 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
30384 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
30385 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
30386 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
30389 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
30390 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
30391 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
30393 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
30394 style address, then we'd crash.
30395 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
30396 a dirserver is broken.
30397 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
30399 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
30400 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
30401 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
30403 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
30404 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
30405 name out of the warning/assert messages.
30406 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
30407 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
30408 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
30410 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
30411 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
30412 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
30414 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
30416 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
30417 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
30418 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
30419 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
30420 values at once couldn't work.
30421 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
30422 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
30423 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
30424 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
30425 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
30426 they can handle any number of routers.
30427 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
30428 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
30429 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
30430 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
30431 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
30432 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
30433 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
30434 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
30435 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
30438 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
30439 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
30440 - Make hibernation actually work.
30441 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
30442 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
30443 don't use the stream status code.
30446 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
30448 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
30449 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
30451 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
30454 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
30455 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
30456 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
30457 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
30458 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
30459 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
30460 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
30461 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
30462 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
30463 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
30465 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30466 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
30467 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
30468 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
30469 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
30470 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
30471 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
30472 - Make unit tests work on win32.
30475 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
30476 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
30477 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
30479 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
30480 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
30481 than just chopping them off.
30482 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
30484 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30485 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
30486 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
30487 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
30488 right after sending the begin cell.
30489 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
30490 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
30491 exit nodes too. Oops.
30494 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
30495 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
30496 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
30497 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
30498 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
30499 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
30500 the user knows which one it's talking about.
30501 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
30502 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
30503 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
30506 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
30507 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30508 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
30509 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
30511 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
30513 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
30514 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
30515 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
30517 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
30518 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
30519 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
30520 Clip rather than rejecting.
30521 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
30522 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
30525 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
30526 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
30527 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
30528 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
30530 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
30533 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
30534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30535 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
30536 win32 socket errors better.
30538 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30539 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
30542 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
30543 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30544 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
30545 so we don't see those messages days later.
30547 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30548 - Make tor-resolve work again.
30549 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
30550 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
30553 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
30554 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
30555 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
30556 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
30558 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
30559 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
30560 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
30563 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
30564 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30565 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
30566 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
30567 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
30568 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
30569 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
30570 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
30571 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
30573 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
30574 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
30575 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
30576 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
30578 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
30579 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
30582 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
30583 hibernation properties by
30584 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
30585 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
30586 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
30587 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
30588 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
30589 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
30590 get back to normal.)
30591 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
30593 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
30594 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
30595 to fill the last cell completely.
30596 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
30599 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
30600 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30601 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
30602 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
30603 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
30604 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
30605 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
30606 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
30607 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
30608 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
30609 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
30611 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
30612 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
30613 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
30614 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
30615 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
30616 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
30617 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
30618 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
30620 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
30621 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
30622 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
30623 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
30624 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
30625 have it on start-up.
30628 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
30629 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
30630 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
30631 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
30632 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
30633 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
30634 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
30635 configuration to torrc.
30636 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
30637 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
30638 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
30639 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
30640 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
30642 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
30643 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
30644 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
30645 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
30646 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
30647 log more informatively.
30648 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
30649 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
30650 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
30651 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
30652 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
30653 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
30654 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
30655 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
30656 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
30657 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
30658 from each other, to hinder linkability.
30661 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
30662 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
30663 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
30664 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
30665 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
30666 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
30667 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
30669 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
30670 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
30671 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
30672 they ran out of file descriptors.
30673 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
30674 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
30675 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
30676 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
30677 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
30678 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
30679 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
30681 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
30684 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
30685 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
30686 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
30687 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
30688 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
30689 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
30690 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
30691 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
30692 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
30693 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
30694 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
30695 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
30696 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
30697 with the control port.
30698 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
30699 use in authenticating to the control interface.
30700 - New log format in config:
30701 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
30702 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
30705 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
30706 from their dirserver.
30707 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
30709 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
30710 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
30711 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
30712 them act more like real nodes.
30713 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
30714 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
30716 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
30717 nickname to its identity key.
30718 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
30719 not on the command line.
30720 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
30721 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
30722 1024) file descriptors.
30724 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
30725 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
30727 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
30728 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
30729 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
30732 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
30733 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
30734 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
30735 exit policy, not reject *:*.
30736 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
30737 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
30738 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
30739 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
30740 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
30741 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
30742 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
30745 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
30746 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
30747 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
30748 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
30749 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
30750 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
30751 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
30754 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
30755 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
30756 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
30757 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
30758 the ones we find in directories.)
30759 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
30761 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
30762 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
30764 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
30765 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
30766 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
30768 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
30769 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
30770 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
30771 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
30773 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
30774 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
30775 any more exit policy lines.
30778 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
30779 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
30780 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
30781 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
30782 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
30783 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
30784 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
30785 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
30786 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
30787 will be able to get a directory.
30788 - Http proxy support
30789 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
30790 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
30791 be routed through this host.
30792 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
30793 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
30794 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
30795 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
30798 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
30800 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
30801 clients/servers with an open dirport.
30802 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
30803 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
30804 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
30805 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
30806 intermittent connections.
30807 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
30808 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
30810 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
30811 in reporting stats locally.
30812 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
30813 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
30814 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
30817 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
30819 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
30820 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
30823 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
30825 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
30826 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
30827 if you don't want it open.
30828 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
30829 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
30830 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
30831 intermittent connections.
30832 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
30834 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
30835 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
30836 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
30837 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
30838 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
30839 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
30840 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
30841 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
30842 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
30843 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
30844 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
30845 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
30846 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
30847 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
30848 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
30849 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
30852 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
30853 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
30854 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
30855 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
30856 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
30858 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
30860 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
30861 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
30862 specified in HTTP 1.0.
30863 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
30864 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
30865 than once per minute.
30866 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
30867 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
30870 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
30871 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
30874 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
30875 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
30876 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
30877 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
30880 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
30881 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
30883 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
30884 don't put it into the client dns cache.
30885 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
30886 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
30887 until we get our next directory.
30889 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
30890 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
30891 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
30892 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
30893 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
30894 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
30895 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
30896 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
30897 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
30898 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
30899 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
30901 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
30903 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
30904 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
30906 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
30907 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
30908 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
30910 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
30912 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
30913 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
30914 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
30915 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
30916 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
30917 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
30918 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
30919 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
30922 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
30923 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
30924 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
30925 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
30928 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
30929 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
30930 ask them to resolve the host "".
30933 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
30934 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
30935 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
30936 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
30937 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
30938 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
30939 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
30940 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
30941 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
30942 clients don't use this yet.)
30943 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
30944 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
30945 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
30946 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
30947 for pointing out this bug.)
30948 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
30949 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
30950 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
30951 kazaa, gnutella ports.
30952 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
30954 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
30955 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
30956 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
30957 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
30958 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
30959 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
30960 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
30961 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
30962 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
30963 wolf unpredictably.
30964 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
30965 that's still handshaking.
30966 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
30967 you'll choose it for your path.
30968 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
30969 end relay cell, etc.
30970 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
30971 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
30972 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
30975 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
30976 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
30978 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
30979 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
30980 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
30981 list to decide who's running or verified.
30982 - Bugfixes and features:
30983 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
30984 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
30985 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
30986 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
30987 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
30988 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
30990 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
30991 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
30992 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
30993 know you might want to get it verified.
30994 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
30997 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
30999 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
31000 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
31001 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
31002 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
31004 o Protocol changes:
31005 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
31006 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
31007 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
31008 hadn't heard of before.
31011 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
31012 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
31013 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
31014 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
31015 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
31016 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
31017 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
31018 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
31019 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
31020 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
31021 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
31022 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
31023 - Directory caching.
31024 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
31025 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
31026 directory they've pulled down.
31027 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
31028 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
31029 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
31030 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
31031 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
31032 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
31033 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
31035 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
31036 This isn't used yet.
31037 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
31038 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
31039 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
31040 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
31041 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
31042 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
31043 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
31044 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
31045 - File and name management:
31046 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
31047 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
31049 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
31050 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
31051 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
31052 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
31053 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
31054 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
31055 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
31057 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
31058 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
31059 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
31060 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
31061 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
31063 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
31064 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
31065 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
31066 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
31067 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
31068 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
31069 - New docs in the tarball:
31071 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
31074 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
31075 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
31076 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
31079 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
31080 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
31081 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
31084 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
31085 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
31088 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
31089 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
31090 - Make it build on Win32 again.
31091 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
31092 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
31096 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
31098 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
31099 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
31100 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
31101 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
31102 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
31103 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
31104 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
31105 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
31106 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
31107 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
31110 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
31113 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
31114 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
31115 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
31116 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
31118 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
31119 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
31120 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
31122 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
31123 hidden service per 15-minute period.
31124 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
31125 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
31126 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
31127 o Fixes for security bugs:
31128 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
31129 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
31130 a trusted dirserver.
31132 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
31133 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
31134 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
31135 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
31136 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
31137 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
31138 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
31139 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
31140 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
31141 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
31143 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
31144 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
31145 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
31146 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
31148 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
31149 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
31150 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
31151 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
31152 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
31153 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
31154 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
31155 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
31156 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
31157 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
31158 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
31159 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
31160 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
31163 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
31164 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
31165 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
31166 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
31169 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
31170 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
31171 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
31172 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
31173 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
31174 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
31175 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
31179 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
31180 [version bump only]
31183 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
31184 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
31185 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
31186 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
31187 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
31189 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
31192 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
31193 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
31194 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
31195 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
31196 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
31197 o Better debugging for tls errors
31198 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
31199 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
31200 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
31201 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
31202 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
31203 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
31204 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
31205 o win32's close can't close a socket.
31208 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
31209 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
31210 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
31211 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
31212 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
31213 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
31214 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
31215 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
31216 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
31217 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
31218 just close the circ.
31219 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
31220 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
31221 (this was quite rare).
31224 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
31225 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
31226 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
31227 if you decrypted them correctly.
31228 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
31229 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
31230 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
31233 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
31234 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
31235 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
31236 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
31237 a second one and it works.
31238 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
31239 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
31240 alice would just have to wait to time out.
31241 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
31242 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
31243 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
31244 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
31245 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
31246 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
31247 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
31248 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
31249 i'd still like to find the bug though.
31250 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
31252 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
31256 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
31257 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
31258 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
31259 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
31260 he retries a couple of times
31261 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
31262 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
31263 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
31264 too long (they were sticking around forever).
31265 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
31269 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
31270 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
31271 - make hup work again
31272 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
31273 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
31274 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
31275 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
31276 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
31277 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
31279 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
31280 o changes from 0.0.5:
31281 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
31282 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
31283 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
31284 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
31285 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
31287 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
31288 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
31289 in-memory directories too
31292 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
31293 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
31296 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
31298 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
31299 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
31300 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
31301 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
31304 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
31305 [version bump only]
31308 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
31309 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
31311 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
31312 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
31313 but that aren't warnings
31316 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
31317 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
31318 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
31319 the dns farm to do it.
31320 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
31321 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
31323 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
31324 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
31325 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
31328 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
31329 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
31330 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
31331 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
31332 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
31333 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
31334 expect it to have a nickname.
31335 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
31336 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
31339 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
31340 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
31344 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
31345 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
31346 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
31347 - include missing header fcntl.h
31348 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
31349 - deal with hardware word alignment
31350 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
31351 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
31352 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
31353 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
31354 by kill -USR1 currently.
31355 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
31356 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
31357 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
31360 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
31361 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
31362 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
31365 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
31367 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
31368 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
31369 - And fix a few endian issues.
31372 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
31374 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
31375 try that circuit again: try a new one.
31376 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
31377 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
31378 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
31379 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
31380 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
31381 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
31383 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
31384 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
31385 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
31387 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
31389 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
31390 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
31391 side isn't reading right then.
31392 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
31393 RecommendedVersions
31394 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
31395 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
31396 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
31399 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
31401 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
31402 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
31405 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
31409 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
31411 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
31412 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
31413 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
31414 connection is finished.
31415 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
31416 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
31417 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
31418 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
31419 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
31420 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
31421 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
31422 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
31423 rather than warn and continue.
31424 - Make --version work
31425 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
31428 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
31430 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
31431 knows it's working.
31432 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
31433 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
31435 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
31436 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
31437 so you can collect coredumps there.
31439 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
31440 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
31441 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
31442 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
31443 dns cache actually gets populated.
31444 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
31445 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
31446 end cell down it first.
31447 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
31448 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
31451 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
31453 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
31454 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
31456 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
31457 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
31458 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
31459 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
31460 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
31461 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
31463 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
31465 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
31466 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
31467 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
31468 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
31469 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
31470 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
31472 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
31473 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
31476 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
31478 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
31479 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
31480 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
31481 tor. It even has a man page.
31482 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
31483 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
31484 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
31485 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
31487 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
31489 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
31492 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
31494 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
31495 it, apt-getters. :)
31496 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
31497 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
31498 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
31499 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
31500 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
31501 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
31502 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
31503 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
31504 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
31505 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
31506 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
31508 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
31509 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
31512 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
31514 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
31515 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
31518 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
31520 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
31521 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
31522 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
31523 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
31524 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
31525 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
31526 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
31527 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
31528 logfile so you know it's working.
31529 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
31530 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
31533 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
31535 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
31536 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
31537 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
31540 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
31542 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
31543 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
31544 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
31547 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
31548 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
31549 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
31551 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
31552 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
31554 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
31555 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
31556 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
31558 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
31559 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
31563 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
31565 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
31566 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
31567 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
31570 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
31571 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
31572 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
31573 - Add port ranges to exit policies
31574 - Add a conservative default exit policy
31575 - Warn if you're running tor as root
31576 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
31577 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
31578 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
31579 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
31581 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
31584 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
31585 o Robustness and bugfixes:
31586 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
31587 really screw things up.
31588 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
31590 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
31591 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
31593 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
31594 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
31595 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
31596 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
31597 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
31598 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
31601 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
31604 - Change default loglevel to warn.
31605 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
31606 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
31608 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
31611 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
31612 o Robustness and bugfixes:
31613 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
31614 - to get ownership/permissions right
31615 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
31616 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
31617 pull down a directory again
31618 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
31619 causing server crashes
31620 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
31621 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
31622 - exit if bind() fails
31623 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
31624 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
31625 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
31626 - fix minor bias in PRNG
31627 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
31630 - Wrote the design document (woo)
31632 o Circuit building and exit policies:
31633 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
31635 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
31636 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
31637 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
31638 exists, rather than failing
31639 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
31640 which AP connections are standing by
31641 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
31642 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
31643 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
31645 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
31646 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
31649 - APPort is now called SocksPort
31650 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
31652 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
31653 hardcoded (for dirservers)
31654 - Reloads config on HUP
31655 - Usage info on -h or --help
31656 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
31659 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
31660 o General stability:
31661 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
31662 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
31663 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
31664 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
31665 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
31666 to take down the network when I approve a new router
31667 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
31670 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
31671 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
31673 o Autoconf improvements:
31674 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
31675 - Make install now works
31676 - create var/lib/tor on make install
31677 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
31678 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
31680 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
31681 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
31682 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
31683 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup