1 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
2 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
3 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
4 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
9 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
10 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
11 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
12 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
13 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
14 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
15 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
16 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
17 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
19 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
20 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
21 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
22 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
23 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
24 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
26 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
27 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
28 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
29 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
30 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
33 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
34 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
35 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
36 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
37 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
38 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
41 o Minor features (continuous integration):
42 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
43 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
46 o Minor features (maintenance):
47 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
48 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
49 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
51 o Minor features (testing):
52 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
53 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
54 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
55 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
57 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
58 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
59 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
61 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
62 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
63 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
64 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
66 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
67 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
68 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
70 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
71 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
74 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
75 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
76 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
79 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
80 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
81 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
84 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
85 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
86 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
87 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
89 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
90 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
91 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
92 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
95 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
96 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
97 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
98 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
99 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
100 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
103 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
104 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
105 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
106 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
107 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
108 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
110 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
111 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
112 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
113 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
116 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
117 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
118 Resolves issue 29702.
121 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
122 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
123 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
124 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
125 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
126 performance in several areas.
128 o Major features (circuit padding):
129 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
130 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
131 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
132 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
133 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
134 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
135 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
136 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
137 with the CircuitPadding torrc.) Closes ticket 28634.
139 o Major features (code organization):
140 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
141 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
142 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
143 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
146 o Major features (controller protocol):
147 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
148 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
149 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
152 o Major features (flow control):
153 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
154 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
155 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
156 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
157 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
158 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
159 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
161 o Major features (performance):
162 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
163 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
164 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
166 o Major features (performance, RNG):
167 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
168 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
169 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
170 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
171 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
172 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
173 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
174 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
176 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
177 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
178 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
179 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
180 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
182 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
183 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
184 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
185 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
188 o Minor features (circuit padding):
189 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
191 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
192 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
193 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
194 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
195 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
196 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
197 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
199 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
200 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
201 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
203 o Minor features (continuous integration):
204 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
205 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
207 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
209 o Minor features (controller):
210 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
211 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
212 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
214 o Minor features (debugging):
215 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
216 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
217 can use format strings to include information for trouble
218 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
220 o Minor features (defense in depth):
221 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
222 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
223 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
224 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
225 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
226 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
227 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
228 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
229 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
231 o Minor features (developer tools):
232 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
233 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
234 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
235 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
236 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
238 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
239 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
241 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
242 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
244 o Minor features (geoip):
245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
246 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
248 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
249 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
250 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
252 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
253 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
254 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
255 addresses. Implements 26992.
257 o Minor features (modularity):
258 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
259 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
261 o Minor features (performance):
262 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
263 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
266 o Minor features (testing):
267 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
268 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
269 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
270 Implements ticket 29732.
271 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
272 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
274 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
275 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
277 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
278 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
279 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
280 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
281 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
282 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
284 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
285 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
286 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
287 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
289 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
290 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
291 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
292 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
293 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
294 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
295 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
296 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
297 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
298 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
299 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
300 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
301 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
302 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
303 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
304 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
305 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
306 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
309 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
310 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
311 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
313 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
314 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
315 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
316 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
317 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
319 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
320 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
321 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
322 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
324 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
325 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
326 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
327 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
328 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
329 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
331 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
332 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
334 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
335 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
336 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
337 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
338 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
339 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
340 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
343 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
344 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
345 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
348 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
349 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
350 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
351 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
352 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
353 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
354 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
355 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
357 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
358 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
359 17357; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
360 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
361 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
362 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
363 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
365 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
366 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
367 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
368 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
369 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
370 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
372 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
373 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
374 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
375 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
376 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
378 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
379 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
380 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
382 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
383 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
384 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
387 o Minor bugfixes (python):
388 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
389 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
390 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
392 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
393 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
394 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
395 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
396 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
398 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
399 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
400 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
401 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
402 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
404 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
405 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
406 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
407 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
408 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
409 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
410 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
411 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
412 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
413 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
414 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
415 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
416 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
418 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
419 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
420 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
421 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
422 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
424 o Code simplification and refactoring:
425 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
426 port. Implements ticket 30007.
427 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
428 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
429 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
430 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
431 string to directory connection with or without compression.
432 Resolves issue 28816.
433 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
434 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
435 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
436 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
437 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
438 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
439 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
440 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
441 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
442 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
443 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
444 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
445 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
446 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
447 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
448 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
449 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
450 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
451 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
452 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
453 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
454 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
455 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
457 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
458 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
459 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
460 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
463 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
464 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
468 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
469 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
470 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
471 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
474 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
475 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
476 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
477 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
478 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
479 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
480 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
481 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
482 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
483 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
484 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
488 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
489 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
493 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
494 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
495 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
496 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
497 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
498 long-term maintainability.
500 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
501 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
502 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
503 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
505 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
506 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
508 o Minor features (continuous integration):
509 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
510 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
511 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
513 o Minor features (diagnostic):
514 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
515 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
518 o Minor features (testing):
519 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
520 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
523 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
524 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
525 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
527 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
528 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
529 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
530 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
532 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
533 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
534 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
536 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
537 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
538 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
541 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
542 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
543 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
544 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
546 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
547 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
548 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
549 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
550 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
551 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
553 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
554 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
555 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
556 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
557 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
559 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
560 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
561 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
564 o Minor features (circuit padding):
565 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
566 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
567 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
568 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
571 o Minor features (continuous integration):
572 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
573 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
576 o Minor features (dormant mode):
577 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
578 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
579 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
580 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
581 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
582 background. Closes ticket 29357.
584 o Minor features (geoip):
585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
586 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
588 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
589 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
590 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
591 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
593 o Minor bugfixes (security):
594 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
595 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
596 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
597 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
598 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
599 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
600 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
601 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
603 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
604 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
605 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
606 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
608 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
609 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
610 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
611 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
612 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
614 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
615 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
616 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
618 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
619 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
620 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
623 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
624 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
625 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
628 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
629 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
630 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
632 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
633 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
634 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
636 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
637 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
638 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
639 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
640 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
641 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
644 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
645 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
646 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
647 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
648 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
650 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
651 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
652 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
653 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
654 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
655 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
658 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
659 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
660 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
661 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
662 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
663 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
664 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
665 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
667 o Code simplification and refactoring:
668 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
669 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
670 Resolves issue 28816.
671 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
672 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
675 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
676 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
679 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
680 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
681 bugs from earlier versions.
683 o Minor features (address selection):
684 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
685 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
686 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
687 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
688 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
689 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
690 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
692 o Minor features (geoip):
693 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
694 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
696 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
697 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
698 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
699 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
702 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
703 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
704 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
705 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
706 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
707 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
708 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
709 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
710 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
711 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
714 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
715 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
716 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
718 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
719 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
720 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
723 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
724 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
727 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
728 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
729 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
731 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
732 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
733 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
734 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
735 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
736 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
737 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
739 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
740 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
741 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
744 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
745 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
746 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
747 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
748 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
749 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
750 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
751 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
752 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
753 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
755 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
756 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
757 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
758 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
759 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
760 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
763 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
764 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
765 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
768 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
769 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
770 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
772 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
773 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
774 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
775 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
776 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
777 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
778 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
779 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
781 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
782 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
783 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
784 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
785 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
787 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
788 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
789 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
790 Patches from "Mangix".
792 o Minor features (geoip):
793 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
794 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
796 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
797 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
800 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
801 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
802 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
803 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
804 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
805 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
807 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
808 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
809 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
810 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
813 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
814 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
815 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
816 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
818 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
819 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
820 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
824 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
825 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
826 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
828 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
829 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
830 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
831 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
833 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
834 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
835 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
836 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
837 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
838 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
840 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
841 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
842 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
843 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
844 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
846 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
847 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
848 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
849 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
850 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
852 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
853 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
854 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
856 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
857 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
858 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
860 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
861 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
862 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
863 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
865 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
866 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
867 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
869 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
870 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
871 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
872 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
873 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
876 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
877 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
878 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
879 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
880 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
883 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
884 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
885 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
886 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
887 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
889 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
890 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
891 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
892 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
893 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
894 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
895 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
896 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
898 o Minor features (geoip):
899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
900 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
902 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
903 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
904 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
905 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
907 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
908 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
909 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
910 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
911 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
914 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
915 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
916 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
917 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
919 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
920 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
921 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
922 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
924 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
925 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
926 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
927 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
928 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
929 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
930 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
931 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
933 o Minor features (geoip):
934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
935 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
937 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
938 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
939 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
940 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
942 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
943 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
944 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
945 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
946 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
949 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
950 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
951 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
952 backward compatibility.
954 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
955 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
956 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
958 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
959 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
960 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
961 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
962 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
963 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
964 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
965 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
967 o Major bugfixes (networking):
968 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
969 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
970 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
971 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
973 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
974 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
975 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
976 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
977 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
978 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
979 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
981 o Minor features (compilation):
982 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
983 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
984 Patches from "Mangix".
986 o Minor features (developer tooling):
987 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
988 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
989 release. Closes ticket 27761.
990 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
991 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
992 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
995 o Minor features (directory authority):
996 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
997 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
1000 o Minor features (geoip):
1001 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1002 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1004 o Minor features (testing):
1005 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
1008 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
1009 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1010 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1011 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1013 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1014 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
1015 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1016 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1017 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1019 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1020 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
1021 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
1022 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
1024 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
1025 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
1026 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1028 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1029 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1030 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1031 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
1032 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
1033 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
1034 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1036 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1037 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
1038 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
1039 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
1040 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1042 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1043 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
1044 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
1046 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
1047 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
1048 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
1050 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1051 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1052 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1053 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
1056 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
1057 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
1058 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
1059 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
1062 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1063 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
1064 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1065 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
1066 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
1067 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
1068 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1069 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
1070 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1071 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
1072 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
1076 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
1077 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
1078 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
1081 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
1084 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
1085 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
1086 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
1087 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
1088 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
1089 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
1092 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
1093 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
1094 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
1095 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
1096 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
1097 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
1099 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
1100 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
1102 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
1103 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
1106 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
1107 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
1108 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
1109 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
1110 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
1111 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
1112 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
1113 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
1114 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
1117 o Major features (circuit padding):
1118 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
1119 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
1120 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
1121 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
1122 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
1123 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
1124 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
1125 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
1128 o Major features (refactoring):
1129 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
1130 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
1131 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
1132 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
1135 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1136 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
1137 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
1138 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
1139 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
1142 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1143 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
1146 o Minor features (controller):
1147 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
1148 Implements ticket 28843.
1150 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1151 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
1152 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
1153 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
1155 o Minor features (directory authority):
1156 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
1157 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
1158 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
1159 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
1162 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
1163 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
1164 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
1165 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
1166 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
1167 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
1168 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
1170 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
1171 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
1172 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
1174 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
1175 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
1176 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
1177 Closes ticket 28518.
1179 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
1180 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
1181 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
1182 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
1184 o Minor features (IPv6):
1185 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
1186 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
1187 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
1188 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
1189 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
1190 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1191 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
1192 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
1193 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
1194 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1196 o Minor features (log messages):
1197 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
1198 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
1201 o Minor features (memory usage):
1202 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
1203 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
1204 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
1205 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
1206 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
1208 o Minor features (parsing):
1209 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
1210 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
1211 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
1213 o Minor features (performance):
1214 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
1215 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
1216 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
1217 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
1219 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
1220 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
1221 Closes ticket 28852.
1222 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
1223 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
1224 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
1225 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
1226 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
1227 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
1229 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1230 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
1231 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
1232 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
1233 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
1235 o Minor features (process management):
1236 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
1237 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
1238 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
1239 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
1240 module. Closes ticket 28847.
1242 o Minor features (relay):
1243 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
1244 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
1245 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
1247 o Minor features (required protocols):
1248 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
1249 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
1250 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
1251 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
1252 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
1253 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
1254 297; closes ticket 27735.
1256 o Minor features (testing):
1257 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
1258 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
1260 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
1261 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
1262 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1263 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
1264 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
1267 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1268 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
1269 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
1270 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1272 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
1273 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
1274 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
1277 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
1278 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
1279 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1281 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
1282 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
1283 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
1284 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
1285 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1287 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
1288 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
1289 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
1290 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
1291 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
1292 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
1293 0.3.6.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1295 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
1296 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
1297 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
1298 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
1301 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1302 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
1303 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
1304 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
1305 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
1306 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
1308 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1309 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
1310 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
1311 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1313 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1314 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
1315 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
1316 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
1317 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
1318 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1320 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
1321 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
1322 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
1323 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1326 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
1327 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
1328 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
1329 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1331 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1332 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
1333 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
1334 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
1335 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1337 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1338 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
1339 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
1340 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
1341 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1343 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1344 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
1345 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
1346 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
1348 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
1349 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
1350 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
1351 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
1352 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
1353 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
1354 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
1355 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
1359 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
1360 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
1361 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
1362 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
1364 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
1367 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
1368 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
1369 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
1370 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
1371 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
1372 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
1373 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
1376 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
1378 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
1379 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
1381 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
1382 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
1383 code from client and service into one function. Closes
1386 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
1387 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
1389 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
1390 Resolves ticket 28006.
1391 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
1392 Resolves ticket 28012.
1393 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
1394 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
1395 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
1396 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
1400 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
1401 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1402 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
1403 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
1404 to this version, or to a later series.
1406 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
1407 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
1408 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
1409 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
1410 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
1411 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
1413 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1414 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1415 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1416 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1417 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1420 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1421 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1422 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1423 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1425 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1426 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1427 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1428 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1429 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1430 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1431 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1432 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1434 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1435 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1436 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1437 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1439 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1440 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1441 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1442 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1443 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1445 o Minor features (geoip):
1446 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1447 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1449 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1450 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1451 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1452 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1453 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1454 Closes ticket 28973.
1456 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1457 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1458 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1459 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1461 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1462 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1463 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1466 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1467 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1468 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1471 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1472 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1473 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1475 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1476 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1477 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1478 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1480 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1481 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1482 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1483 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1484 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1485 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1488 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1489 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1490 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1493 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1494 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1495 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1496 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1497 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1499 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1500 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1501 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1502 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1503 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1505 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1506 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1507 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1508 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1509 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1510 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1512 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
1513 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
1514 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
1517 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1518 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1519 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1521 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1522 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1523 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1525 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1526 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1527 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1530 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1531 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1532 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1533 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1534 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1535 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1536 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1537 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1539 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1540 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1541 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1542 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1544 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1545 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1546 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1547 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1548 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1549 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1550 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1551 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1552 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1553 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1555 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1556 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1557 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1558 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1559 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1560 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1562 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1563 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1564 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1565 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1566 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1569 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1570 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1573 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
1574 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
1575 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
1576 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
1579 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
1580 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
1581 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
1584 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1585 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1586 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1587 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1588 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1591 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1592 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1593 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1594 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1595 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1596 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1597 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1599 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1600 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1601 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1604 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1605 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1606 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1607 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1608 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1611 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1612 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1613 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1614 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1615 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1617 o Minor features (geoip):
1618 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1619 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
1621 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1622 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1623 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1624 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1625 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1626 Closes ticket 28973.
1628 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1629 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1630 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1631 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1633 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1634 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
1635 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
1636 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
1637 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
1640 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1641 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
1642 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
1643 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
1645 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
1646 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
1647 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1649 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1650 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
1651 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
1652 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
1654 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1655 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1656 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1657 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1658 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1659 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1662 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1663 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1664 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1666 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1667 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1668 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1669 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1670 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1672 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1673 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1674 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1675 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1676 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1677 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1679 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1680 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1681 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1682 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1684 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1685 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1686 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1689 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
1690 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
1691 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
1692 affecting directory caches.
1694 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
1695 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
1696 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
1697 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
1698 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
1699 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
1700 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
1701 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
1703 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
1704 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
1705 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
1706 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
1707 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
1708 so it will recognize them.
1710 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
1711 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
1712 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
1713 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
1714 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
1715 with the latest stable release.)
1717 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
1718 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1720 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
1721 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1722 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1723 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1724 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1725 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1726 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1728 o Minor features (compilation):
1729 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
1730 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
1732 o Minor features (geoip):
1733 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1734 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1736 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
1737 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1738 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1739 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1740 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1741 Closes ticket 28973.
1743 o Minor features (performance):
1744 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
1745 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
1746 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
1747 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
1748 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
1749 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
1750 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
1751 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
1752 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
1753 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
1755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1756 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
1757 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1759 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1760 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
1761 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
1762 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
1763 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1765 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1766 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
1767 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
1768 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1769 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
1770 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
1771 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1773 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
1774 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
1775 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
1777 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1778 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
1779 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
1783 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
1784 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
1785 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
1786 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
1788 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
1789 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1790 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1793 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1794 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1795 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1796 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1797 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1799 o Minor features (geoip):
1800 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1801 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
1803 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1804 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
1805 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1807 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
1808 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
1809 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
1810 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
1812 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1813 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1814 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1815 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1816 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1817 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1819 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
1820 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
1821 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
1824 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1825 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
1826 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
1827 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1828 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
1829 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1830 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1832 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
1833 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
1834 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
1835 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
1836 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
1837 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
1838 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
1839 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
1841 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
1842 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
1843 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
1844 reported by Keifer Bly.
1847 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
1848 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
1850 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
1851 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
1852 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
1853 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
1854 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
1855 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
1856 Closes ticket 19566.
1858 o Documentation (onion services):
1859 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
1860 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
1861 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
1862 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
1863 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
1864 process. Closes ticket 28275.
1867 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
1868 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
1869 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
1872 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
1873 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1874 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1875 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1876 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1879 o Minor features (geoip):
1880 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1881 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1884 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1885 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1886 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1888 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
1889 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
1890 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
1891 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
1892 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
1895 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
1896 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
1897 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
1898 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
1900 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
1901 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
1902 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1904 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1905 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
1906 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1908 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1909 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
1910 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
1913 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1914 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
1915 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
1918 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1919 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1920 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1922 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1923 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
1924 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
1925 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
1926 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
1927 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
1928 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
1929 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
1930 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
1931 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1934 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
1935 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
1936 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
1937 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
1938 acceptable long-term-support release.
1940 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
1941 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
1942 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
1943 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
1944 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
1945 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1947 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
1948 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
1949 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
1950 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
1951 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1953 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1954 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
1956 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
1957 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
1959 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
1960 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
1961 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
1963 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
1964 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1965 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1969 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
1970 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1972 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
1973 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
1974 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
1977 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1978 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
1979 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
1982 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
1983 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1984 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
1985 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1987 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1988 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
1989 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
1990 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
1993 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
1994 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
1995 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
1996 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1998 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1999 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
2000 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
2001 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
2002 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
2003 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
2004 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2006 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2007 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
2008 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
2011 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
2012 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
2015 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
2016 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
2017 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
2018 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
2019 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2021 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
2022 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
2023 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2024 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
2025 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
2026 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2028 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
2029 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
2030 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
2031 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
2032 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2034 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2035 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
2036 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2038 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
2039 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
2040 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
2041 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
2042 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2044 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
2045 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
2046 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
2049 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
2050 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
2051 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
2052 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
2053 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
2055 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2056 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
2057 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2059 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2060 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
2061 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
2062 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
2063 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2065 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2066 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
2067 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
2068 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
2069 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
2072 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2073 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
2074 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
2075 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2077 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2078 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
2079 Implements ticket 27252.
2080 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
2081 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
2082 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
2083 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
2084 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
2085 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
2086 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
2088 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2089 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
2090 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
2091 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
2093 o Minor features (geoip):
2094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2095 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
2097 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2098 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
2099 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
2100 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
2101 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2103 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
2104 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
2105 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2106 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
2107 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2110 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2111 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
2112 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
2115 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2116 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2117 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2118 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2119 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2121 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2122 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2123 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2125 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2126 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2127 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2129 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2130 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
2131 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
2132 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2135 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2136 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2138 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2139 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2140 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2143 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2144 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2145 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2147 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2148 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2149 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2152 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2153 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2154 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2155 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2156 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2158 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2159 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2160 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2161 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2162 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2163 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2165 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2166 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2167 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2170 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2171 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2172 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2173 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2174 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2175 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2176 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2177 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2179 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2180 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2181 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2182 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2184 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2185 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
2186 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
2187 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
2188 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2190 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2191 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
2192 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2193 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
2194 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
2195 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2197 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2198 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2199 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2200 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2201 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2202 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2204 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2205 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2206 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2207 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2210 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2211 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
2212 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
2213 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
2214 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2217 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
2218 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
2219 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
2220 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
2221 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
2222 getting closer and closer to stability.
2224 o Major features (onion services):
2225 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
2226 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
2227 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
2228 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
2229 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
2231 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2232 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
2233 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2235 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
2236 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
2237 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
2238 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2240 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
2241 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
2242 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
2243 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
2244 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2246 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2247 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
2248 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
2249 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
2250 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
2253 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2254 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
2255 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
2256 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
2257 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
2258 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
2261 o Minor features (geoip):
2262 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2263 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
2265 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
2266 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2267 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2271 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
2272 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
2273 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
2274 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
2275 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
2278 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
2279 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
2282 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
2283 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2284 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2285 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2286 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2288 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
2289 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
2290 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
2291 were the same, the default setting (0) for
2292 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
2293 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
2296 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2297 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
2298 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2300 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2301 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
2302 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
2304 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
2305 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
2306 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2308 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2309 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
2310 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
2312 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
2313 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
2314 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
2315 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2316 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2317 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2318 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2319 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2320 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2322 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
2323 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2324 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2328 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2329 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2330 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2332 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
2333 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2335 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2336 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
2337 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
2338 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
2339 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
2340 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
2341 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
2342 Closes ticket 27814.
2343 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
2344 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
2345 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
2346 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
2347 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
2348 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
2351 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
2352 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
2353 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
2354 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
2357 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
2358 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
2359 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
2360 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
2362 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
2363 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
2364 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
2365 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
2366 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
2367 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2369 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
2370 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
2371 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
2372 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
2373 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
2376 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
2377 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
2378 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
2379 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
2380 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2382 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
2383 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
2384 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2385 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
2386 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2389 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2390 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2391 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2392 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2393 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
2396 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
2397 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
2398 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
2401 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
2402 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
2405 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2406 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2407 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2408 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2411 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
2412 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
2413 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2415 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2416 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
2417 Closes ticket 27799.
2420 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
2421 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
2422 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
2423 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
2424 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
2426 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
2427 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
2428 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
2429 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
2430 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
2431 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
2433 o Major features (relay, UI change):
2434 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
2435 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
2436 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
2437 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
2438 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2439 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
2440 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
2442 o Major features (bootstrap):
2443 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
2444 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
2445 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
2446 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
2448 o Major features (new code layout):
2449 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
2450 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
2451 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
2452 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
2453 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
2454 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
2455 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
2457 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
2458 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
2459 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
2461 o Major features (onion services v3):
2462 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
2463 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
2464 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
2465 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
2466 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
2467 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
2468 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
2469 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2470 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
2471 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
2472 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
2473 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
2474 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
2476 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
2477 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
2478 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
2479 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
2480 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
2481 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
2482 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
2484 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
2485 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
2486 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
2487 (if present), and restart Tor.
2489 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2490 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
2491 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
2492 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
2495 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
2496 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
2497 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
2498 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2500 o Minor features (admin tools):
2501 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
2502 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
2505 o Minor features (build):
2506 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
2507 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
2508 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
2509 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
2511 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
2512 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
2513 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
2514 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
2515 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
2517 o Minor features (code layout):
2518 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
2519 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
2520 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
2521 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
2524 o Minor features (compilation):
2525 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
2526 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
2527 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
2528 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
2531 o Minor features (config):
2532 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
2535 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2536 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
2537 Implements ticket 27252.
2538 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2539 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2540 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
2541 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
2542 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
2543 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
2544 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
2545 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
2546 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
2548 o Minor features (controller):
2549 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
2550 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
2551 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
2552 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
2553 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
2554 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
2555 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
2556 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
2558 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
2559 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
2560 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
2561 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
2563 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2564 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
2565 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
2566 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2568 o Minor features (development):
2569 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
2570 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
2572 o Minor features (directory authority):
2573 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
2574 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
2575 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
2576 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
2578 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
2579 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
2582 o Minor features (embedding API):
2583 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
2584 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
2585 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
2586 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
2587 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
2588 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
2591 o Minor features (geoip):
2592 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2593 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
2595 o Minor features (memory management):
2596 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
2597 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
2600 o Minor features (memory usage):
2601 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
2602 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
2603 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
2605 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
2606 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
2607 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
2609 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
2610 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
2611 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
2612 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
2614 o Minor features (testing):
2615 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
2616 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
2618 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
2619 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
2620 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
2622 o Minor features (UI):
2623 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
2624 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
2625 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
2626 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
2627 Closes ticket 26703.
2629 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
2630 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
2631 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
2632 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2634 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2635 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
2636 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
2637 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2638 - Use time_t for all values in
2639 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
2640 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
2641 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2643 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
2644 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
2645 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
2646 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
2647 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
2650 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
2651 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
2652 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
2653 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
2654 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
2655 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2657 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2658 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
2659 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
2660 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2662 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
2663 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
2664 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
2665 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
2666 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
2668 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2669 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2670 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2672 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2673 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
2674 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
2675 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
2676 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
2679 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
2680 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2681 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2683 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
2684 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2685 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2688 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2689 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
2690 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
2691 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
2692 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2694 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2695 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
2696 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
2697 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
2698 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
2699 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
2700 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
2702 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
2703 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
2704 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
2705 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
2706 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2708 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
2709 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2710 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2712 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2713 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
2714 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
2715 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
2718 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2719 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2720 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2723 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
2724 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
2725 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
2726 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
2727 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
2729 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
2730 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
2731 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
2732 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
2734 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
2735 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
2736 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
2737 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
2739 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2740 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
2741 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
2742 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
2743 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
2744 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2745 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2746 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
2747 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
2748 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2750 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
2751 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2752 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2753 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2754 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2755 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2756 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2757 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2759 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2760 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
2761 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2762 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2763 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2764 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2765 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2766 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2767 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
2768 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
2769 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2770 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
2771 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2773 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2774 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
2775 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
2776 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
2777 directory within the top-level src directory.
2778 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
2779 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
2780 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
2781 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
2782 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
2783 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
2784 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
2785 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
2786 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
2787 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
2788 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
2789 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
2790 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
2791 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
2792 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
2793 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
2794 Closes ticket 21349.
2795 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
2796 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
2797 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
2798 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
2799 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
2800 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
2801 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
2803 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
2804 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
2805 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
2808 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
2809 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
2810 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
2811 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
2812 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
2815 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
2816 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
2817 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
2818 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
2819 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
2820 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
2821 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
2822 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
2823 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
2824 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
2825 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
2826 Closes ticket 26367.
2829 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
2830 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
2832 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2833 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2834 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2835 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2837 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2838 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2840 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2841 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2842 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2843 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2845 o Minor features (geoip):
2846 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2847 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2849 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2850 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2851 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2852 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2855 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2856 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2857 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2858 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2859 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2860 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2861 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2864 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2865 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2866 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2867 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2869 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2870 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2871 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2872 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2874 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2875 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2876 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2877 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2879 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2880 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2881 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2882 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2883 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2885 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2886 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
2887 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
2890 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2891 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
2892 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
2893 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
2894 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
2896 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2897 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
2898 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
2901 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2902 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
2903 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
2904 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2906 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2907 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
2908 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2910 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2911 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
2912 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
2915 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2916 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
2917 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
2918 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
2919 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2921 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2922 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
2923 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2926 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
2927 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
2929 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2930 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
2931 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
2932 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
2934 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2935 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2937 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2938 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2939 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
2940 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
2942 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2943 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
2946 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2947 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
2948 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
2949 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
2951 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2952 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
2953 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
2954 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
2956 o Minor features (geoip):
2957 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2958 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
2960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2961 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
2962 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
2963 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2964 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
2965 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
2966 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2969 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
2970 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
2971 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
2972 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2973 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
2974 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
2975 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
2978 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2979 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
2980 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
2981 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2983 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
2984 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
2985 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
2986 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
2989 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2990 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
2991 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
2992 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
2995 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
2996 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
2997 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
2998 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3000 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3001 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3002 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3005 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3006 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3007 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3008 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3009 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3011 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3012 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3013 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3016 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3017 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3018 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3021 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3022 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3023 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3026 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3027 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3029 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3030 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3031 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3032 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3034 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3035 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
3036 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
3037 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3039 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3040 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3041 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3043 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3044 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3045 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3046 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3047 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3048 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3049 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3052 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
3053 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
3054 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
3055 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
3056 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3058 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3059 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3060 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3061 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3062 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3064 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3065 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3066 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3069 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
3070 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
3072 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3073 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
3074 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
3075 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
3077 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3078 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3079 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3080 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3082 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3083 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
3084 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3086 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3087 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3088 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3089 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3091 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3092 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3095 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3096 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3097 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3098 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3100 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3101 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3102 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3103 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3105 o Minor features (geoip):
3106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3107 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3110 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3111 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3112 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3113 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3114 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3115 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3117 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3118 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3119 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3120 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3121 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3122 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3123 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3124 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3128 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3129 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3130 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3132 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3133 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3134 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3135 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3137 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3138 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3139 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3140 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3141 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3143 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3144 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3145 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3146 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3147 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3149 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3150 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3151 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3154 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3155 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
3156 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
3157 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3159 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3160 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3161 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3162 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3163 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3165 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3166 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3167 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3170 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3171 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3172 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3175 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3176 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3177 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3180 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3181 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
3182 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
3183 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3185 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3186 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
3187 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
3190 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3191 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3193 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3194 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3195 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
3196 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
3197 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3198 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
3199 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
3201 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3202 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3203 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
3204 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
3205 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3207 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3208 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
3209 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
3210 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3212 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3213 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3214 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3216 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3217 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3218 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3219 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3220 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3221 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3222 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3225 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3226 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3227 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3228 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3229 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3231 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3232 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
3233 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
3234 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
3235 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3237 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3238 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3239 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3242 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
3243 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
3244 compilation and portability fixes.
3246 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
3247 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
3248 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
3249 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
3250 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
3251 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
3252 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
3253 our anti-denial-of-service code.
3255 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
3256 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3258 o Minor features (compatibility):
3259 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3260 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3261 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3263 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3264 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
3265 Implements ticket 27449.
3266 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
3267 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
3270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3271 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3272 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3273 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3274 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3275 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3276 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3277 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3280 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3281 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
3282 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
3283 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
3284 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
3285 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3286 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3287 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3288 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3289 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3291 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3292 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3293 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
3297 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3298 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3299 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3300 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3301 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3302 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3305 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
3306 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3307 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3308 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3309 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3311 o Minor features (bug workaround):
3312 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
3313 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
3314 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
3316 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3317 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
3318 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3320 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3321 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3322 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
3323 Implements ticket 27275.
3324 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3325 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3327 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
3328 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3331 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3332 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3333 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3334 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3336 o Minor features (geoip):
3337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3338 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
3341 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3342 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3343 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3345 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3346 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
3347 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
3348 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
3349 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3350 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3351 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3352 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3354 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
3355 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
3356 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
3357 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3359 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3360 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3361 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3362 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3363 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3365 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3366 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3367 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3370 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3371 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
3372 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
3375 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3376 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3378 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3379 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3380 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
3381 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
3382 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3383 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
3384 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
3386 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3387 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3388 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
3389 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
3390 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3392 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
3393 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
3394 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
3395 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
3396 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
3399 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3400 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3401 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3402 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3404 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
3405 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3406 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3409 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
3410 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3411 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3412 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3413 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3415 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
3416 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
3417 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
3418 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
3419 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
3420 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3422 o Minor features (compilation):
3423 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3424 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3426 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3427 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3428 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3429 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3430 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3431 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3434 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3435 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3436 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3438 o Minor features (controller):
3439 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3440 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3441 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3443 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3444 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3445 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3448 o Minor features (geoip):
3449 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3450 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3452 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
3453 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
3455 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3456 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
3457 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3458 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3459 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3460 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3461 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3463 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3464 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
3465 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3466 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
3467 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
3468 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3470 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
3471 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
3472 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
3475 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
3476 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3477 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3479 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3480 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3481 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3484 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3485 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
3486 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3487 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
3488 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
3489 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3491 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
3492 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
3493 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
3494 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3496 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3497 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3498 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3500 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
3501 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
3502 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
3503 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
3504 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
3505 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
3507 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3508 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
3509 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
3510 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
3511 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3514 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
3515 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3516 bridge relays should upgrade.
3518 o Directory authority changes:
3519 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3520 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3521 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3524 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
3525 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3526 bridge relays should upgrade.
3528 o Directory authority changes:
3529 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3530 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3531 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3534 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
3535 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3536 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3539 o Directory authority changes:
3540 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3541 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3542 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3544 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3545 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3546 Closes ticket 26343.
3548 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3549 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3550 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3551 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3552 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3554 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3555 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3556 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3558 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3559 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3560 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3561 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3563 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3564 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
3565 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
3567 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3568 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3569 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3570 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3571 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3572 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3574 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3575 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3576 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3577 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3579 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3580 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3581 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3584 o Minor features (geoip):
3585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3586 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3588 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3589 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3590 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3591 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3592 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3594 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3595 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3596 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3598 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3599 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3600 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3601 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3602 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3603 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3604 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3605 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3608 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3609 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3610 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3611 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3612 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3613 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3615 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3616 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
3617 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
3618 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
3619 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3622 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3623 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3624 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3625 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3627 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3628 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3629 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3632 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3633 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3634 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3636 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3637 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3638 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3639 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3641 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3642 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3643 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3644 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3645 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3646 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3647 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3649 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3650 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3651 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3652 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3655 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3656 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3657 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3659 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3660 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3661 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3664 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3665 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
3666 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
3669 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3670 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
3671 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
3672 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3674 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3675 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3676 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3678 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3679 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3680 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3683 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
3684 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3685 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3688 o Directory authority changes:
3689 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3690 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3691 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3693 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3694 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3695 Closes ticket 26343.
3697 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3698 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3699 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3700 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3701 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3703 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3704 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3705 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3706 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3708 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3709 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3710 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3711 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3712 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3713 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3715 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3716 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3717 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3720 o Minor features (geoip):
3721 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3722 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3724 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3725 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3726 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3727 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3728 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3730 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3731 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3732 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3734 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3735 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3736 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3737 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3740 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3741 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3742 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3743 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3744 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3745 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3748 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3749 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3750 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3751 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3753 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3754 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3755 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3758 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3759 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3760 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3762 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3763 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3764 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3765 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3767 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3768 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3769 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3771 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3772 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3773 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3776 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
3777 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3778 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3779 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3780 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3782 o Minor features (compilation):
3783 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3784 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3787 o Minor features (geoip):
3788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3789 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3791 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
3792 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
3794 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3795 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3796 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3797 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3798 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3800 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3801 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
3802 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3803 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
3804 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
3805 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3807 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
3808 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
3809 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
3812 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
3813 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3814 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3816 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
3817 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3818 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3819 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3820 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3821 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3822 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3823 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3827 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
3828 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3829 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
3831 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3832 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
3833 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
3834 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3836 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3837 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
3838 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
3841 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3842 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3843 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3846 o Minor features (geoip):
3847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3848 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3850 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3851 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3852 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3853 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3855 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3856 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
3857 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
3858 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
3859 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
3862 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3863 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3864 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3865 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3866 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3868 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3869 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
3870 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
3871 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3873 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3874 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3875 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3877 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3878 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3879 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3880 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3883 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3884 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
3885 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
3886 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3888 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3889 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3890 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3891 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3892 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3893 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3894 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3895 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3899 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
3900 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
3901 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
3903 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3904 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
3905 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
3906 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
3908 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
3909 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
3910 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
3913 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
3914 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
3915 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
3916 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
3918 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
3919 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3920 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3921 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3923 o Minor features (unit tests):
3924 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
3925 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
3926 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
3929 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3930 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
3931 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
3932 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3933 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
3934 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
3935 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3936 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
3937 Closes ticket 26245.
3939 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3940 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
3941 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
3942 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
3943 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
3944 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3946 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3947 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3948 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3949 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3952 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3953 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
3954 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3955 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
3956 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
3957 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
3958 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
3959 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
3960 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3961 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
3962 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
3963 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
3964 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
3965 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3968 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
3969 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
3970 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
3972 o Directory authority changes:
3973 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3974 Closes ticket 26343.
3976 o Minor features (geoip):
3977 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3978 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
3980 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3981 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3982 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3983 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3984 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3985 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3987 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3988 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3989 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3991 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3992 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
3993 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
3994 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
3995 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3997 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3998 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3999 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4001 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4002 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
4003 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
4004 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
4005 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
4006 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4009 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
4010 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
4011 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
4013 o Directory authority changes:
4014 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
4015 Closes ticket 26343.
4017 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
4018 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
4019 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
4020 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
4021 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
4023 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4024 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
4025 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
4026 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
4028 o Minor features (geoip):
4029 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4030 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
4032 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
4033 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
4034 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
4035 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
4036 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
4037 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4040 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
4041 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4042 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
4043 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4044 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
4045 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
4046 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4048 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
4049 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
4050 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
4051 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
4054 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4055 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
4056 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
4057 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
4058 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4060 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
4061 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
4062 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4064 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4065 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
4066 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4068 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
4069 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
4070 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
4071 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
4075 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
4076 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
4077 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4079 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
4080 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
4081 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
4082 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
4083 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
4084 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
4086 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
4087 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4089 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4090 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
4091 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
4092 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
4093 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4095 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
4096 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
4097 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
4098 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
4099 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
4101 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4102 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
4103 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
4104 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4106 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4107 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
4108 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
4109 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4111 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4112 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
4113 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
4115 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4116 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
4117 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
4120 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4121 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
4122 Closes ticket 26006.
4124 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4125 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
4126 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
4127 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
4128 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
4129 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
4131 o Minor features (geoip):
4132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
4133 database. Closes ticket 26104.
4135 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4136 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
4137 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
4140 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4141 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
4142 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
4143 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
4144 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4146 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4147 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
4148 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
4149 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
4150 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
4153 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4154 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
4155 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4157 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4158 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
4159 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4160 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
4161 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
4162 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
4163 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4165 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4166 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
4167 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4169 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4170 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
4171 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
4174 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
4175 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
4176 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
4177 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
4178 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
4179 other small features and bugfixes.
4181 o New system requirements:
4182 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
4183 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
4184 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
4185 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
4187 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
4188 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
4189 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
4190 To disable the module, the configure option
4191 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
4192 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
4194 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
4195 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
4196 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
4197 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
4198 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
4199 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
4200 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
4201 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
4202 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
4203 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
4204 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
4206 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
4207 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
4208 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
4209 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
4210 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
4211 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
4212 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
4213 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
4214 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
4215 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
4216 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
4217 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
4218 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
4219 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
4220 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
4221 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
4222 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
4223 Tor's uptime (26009).
4225 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
4226 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
4227 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
4228 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
4229 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4231 o Major bugfixes (crash):
4232 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
4233 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
4234 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4236 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4237 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
4238 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
4239 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4241 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4242 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
4243 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
4245 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
4246 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
4247 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
4248 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
4249 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
4250 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
4251 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
4252 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
4253 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
4254 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
4255 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
4256 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
4257 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
4258 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4260 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
4261 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
4262 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
4265 o Minor features (accounting):
4266 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
4267 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
4268 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
4269 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
4271 o Minor features (code quality):
4272 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
4273 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
4274 Closes ticket 25024.
4276 o Minor features (compatibility):
4277 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
4278 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
4279 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
4280 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
4281 Closes ticket 26006.
4283 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
4284 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
4285 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
4286 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
4287 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
4288 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
4290 o Minor features (configuration):
4291 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
4292 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
4293 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
4294 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
4295 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
4297 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4298 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
4299 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
4300 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
4301 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
4302 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
4304 o Minor features (control port):
4305 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
4306 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
4307 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
4308 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4309 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
4310 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
4311 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
4312 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
4313 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
4314 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
4316 o Minor features (directory authority):
4317 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
4318 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
4319 Closes ticket 23909.
4321 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
4322 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
4323 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
4324 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
4326 o Minor features (entry guards):
4327 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
4328 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
4330 o Minor features (geoip):
4331 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
4332 database. Closes ticket 26104.
4334 o Minor features (performance):
4335 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
4336 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
4337 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
4338 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
4340 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
4341 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
4343 o Minor features (testing):
4344 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
4345 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
4347 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
4348 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
4349 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
4350 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
4351 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
4352 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
4354 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
4355 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
4356 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
4357 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
4358 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
4360 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
4361 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
4362 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
4363 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
4364 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
4365 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
4367 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4368 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
4369 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
4370 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
4373 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
4374 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
4375 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
4376 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
4379 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4380 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
4381 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
4384 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
4385 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
4386 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4387 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
4388 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
4390 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
4391 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
4392 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
4393 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
4394 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4396 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4397 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
4398 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
4399 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
4400 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4402 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
4403 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
4404 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
4405 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
4406 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4408 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
4409 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
4410 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4411 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
4412 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
4413 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
4416 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4417 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
4418 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
4419 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
4420 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
4423 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
4424 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
4425 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
4426 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
4427 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
4428 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
4429 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4431 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4432 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
4433 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4435 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
4436 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
4437 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4438 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
4439 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
4440 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
4441 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4443 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4444 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
4445 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
4446 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
4447 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
4448 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4450 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4451 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
4452 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
4455 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
4456 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
4457 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
4458 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
4461 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
4462 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
4463 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
4464 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
4465 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
4466 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4468 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
4469 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
4470 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4472 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
4473 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
4474 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
4475 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4477 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4478 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
4479 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
4480 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
4481 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
4482 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4483 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
4484 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
4486 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
4487 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
4488 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4489 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
4490 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
4491 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
4492 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
4494 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
4495 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
4496 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
4497 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
4498 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
4500 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
4501 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
4502 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
4505 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
4506 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
4507 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
4508 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
4509 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
4510 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4512 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4513 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
4514 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
4515 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4516 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
4517 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
4518 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
4519 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
4521 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
4522 confusing we renamed some functions and
4523 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
4524 router_should_check_reachability() and
4525 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
4526 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
4527 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
4528 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
4529 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
4531 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
4532 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
4534 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
4535 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
4536 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4537 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
4538 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
4539 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
4540 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
4541 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
4542 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
4543 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
4544 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
4545 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
4546 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
4547 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
4548 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
4549 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4550 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
4551 Closes ticket 25766.
4552 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
4553 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
4554 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
4555 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
4556 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
4557 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
4558 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
4559 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
4560 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
4561 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
4562 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4563 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
4564 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
4565 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
4567 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
4568 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
4569 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
4570 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
4571 before. Closes ticket 26016.
4572 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
4573 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
4574 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
4575 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
4577 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
4578 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
4579 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
4580 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4582 o Deprecated features:
4583 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
4584 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
4585 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
4586 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
4587 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
4588 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
4591 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
4592 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
4595 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
4596 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
4597 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
4598 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
4599 24378 and proposal 290.
4600 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
4601 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
4602 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
4603 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
4604 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
4605 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
4606 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
4607 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
4608 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
4609 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
4610 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
4611 their local router. Closes 25409.
4612 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
4613 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
4614 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
4615 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
4616 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
4617 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
4618 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
4619 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
4620 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
4621 Closes ticket 25268.
4624 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
4625 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
4626 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
4628 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
4629 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
4630 be nearly identical to this one.
4632 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
4633 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
4634 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
4635 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
4636 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
4637 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4639 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
4640 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
4641 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
4642 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
4643 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
4644 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
4645 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
4647 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
4648 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
4649 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
4651 o Minor features (config options):
4652 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
4653 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
4654 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
4657 o Minor features (geoip):
4658 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4659 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
4661 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4662 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
4663 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
4664 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
4665 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
4666 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4668 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4669 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
4670 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
4671 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4673 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
4674 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
4675 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
4676 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4677 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
4678 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
4679 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4681 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4682 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
4683 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
4684 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
4685 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4686 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
4687 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4689 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
4690 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
4691 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
4692 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
4693 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
4695 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4696 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
4697 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
4699 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
4700 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
4701 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
4703 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4704 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
4705 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
4707 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
4708 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
4709 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
4713 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
4714 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
4715 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
4716 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
4718 o New system requirements:
4719 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
4720 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
4722 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
4723 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
4724 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
4725 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
4726 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4728 o Minor features (geoip):
4729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4730 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
4732 o Minor features (log messages):
4733 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
4734 information about memory usage from the different compression
4735 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
4737 o Minor features (sandbox):
4738 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
4739 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
4740 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
4742 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4743 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
4744 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
4745 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
4747 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
4748 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
4749 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
4751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4752 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
4753 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
4754 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4756 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
4757 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
4758 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
4759 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4761 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4762 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
4763 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
4764 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
4766 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4767 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
4768 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
4770 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4771 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
4772 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
4773 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
4774 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
4775 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4777 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4778 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4779 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
4780 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
4782 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
4783 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
4784 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
4785 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
4787 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
4788 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
4789 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
4790 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
4793 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
4794 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
4795 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
4796 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
4797 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4800 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
4801 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
4805 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
4807 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
4808 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
4811 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
4812 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
4815 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
4816 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
4818 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
4819 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
4821 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
4824 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
4825 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
4826 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
4828 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
4829 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
4830 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
4831 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
4834 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4835 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
4836 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
4837 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
4840 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4841 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
4842 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
4843 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
4844 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
4845 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
4846 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
4847 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
4848 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
4849 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
4850 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
4851 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
4852 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
4854 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4855 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
4856 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
4858 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4859 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
4860 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
4861 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
4862 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
4863 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
4864 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4866 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4867 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
4868 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4870 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
4871 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
4872 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
4873 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
4874 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
4875 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
4876 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4878 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4879 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
4880 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
4881 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
4883 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
4884 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
4885 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
4886 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
4888 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4889 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
4890 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
4891 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
4892 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
4893 Closes ticket 24978.
4895 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4896 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
4897 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
4898 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
4899 information. Closes ticket 24801.
4900 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
4901 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
4902 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
4903 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
4905 o Minor features (geoip):
4906 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4909 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4910 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
4911 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
4912 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
4913 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
4915 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4916 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
4917 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
4918 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
4919 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
4921 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
4922 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
4923 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
4924 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
4925 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
4928 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4929 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
4930 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
4931 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
4932 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
4933 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
4934 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
4935 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
4936 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
4937 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
4938 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
4941 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
4942 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
4943 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4945 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4946 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
4947 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
4950 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
4951 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
4952 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
4953 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
4954 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
4955 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
4956 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
4958 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4959 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
4960 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4961 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
4962 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
4963 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
4964 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
4965 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
4966 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
4969 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4970 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
4971 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
4972 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
4973 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
4974 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4976 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
4977 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
4978 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
4979 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4981 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
4982 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
4983 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
4984 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
4985 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
4988 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
4989 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
4990 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
4991 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
4992 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
4993 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4995 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
4996 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
4997 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
4998 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
4999 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5000 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5001 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5002 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5003 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5004 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5005 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5006 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5008 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5009 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5010 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5011 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5013 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5014 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5015 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5016 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5018 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
5019 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5020 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5021 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5024 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
5025 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
5026 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
5027 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
5028 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
5030 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5031 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5033 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5034 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5036 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5037 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5038 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5041 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
5042 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5045 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5046 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5048 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
5049 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
5051 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5054 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
5055 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
5056 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
5058 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5059 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5060 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5061 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5064 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
5065 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5066 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5067 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5068 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5069 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5070 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5071 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5072 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5073 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5074 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5075 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5076 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5078 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5079 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5080 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5081 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5082 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5083 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5084 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5085 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5086 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5088 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
5089 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5090 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5091 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5092 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5093 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5094 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5096 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
5097 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5098 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5099 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5101 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
5102 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5103 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5104 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5105 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5106 Closes ticket 24978.
5108 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5109 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5110 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5111 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5113 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5114 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
5115 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
5116 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
5117 information. Closes ticket 24801.
5118 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
5119 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
5120 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
5121 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
5123 o Minor features (geoip):
5124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5127 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5128 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5129 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5131 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
5132 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5133 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5134 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5135 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5137 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
5138 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5139 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5140 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5141 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5143 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
5144 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
5145 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
5146 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
5147 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
5150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5151 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5152 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5154 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5155 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5156 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5159 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5160 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5161 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5162 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5163 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5164 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5165 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5167 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
5168 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5169 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5170 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5171 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5174 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
5175 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5176 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5177 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5178 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5179 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
5182 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5183 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5184 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5186 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
5187 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
5188 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
5189 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
5190 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5191 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5192 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5193 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5194 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5195 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5196 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5197 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
5200 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5201 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5202 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5205 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5206 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
5207 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
5208 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
5209 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
5211 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5212 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5214 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5215 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5218 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
5219 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
5220 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
5223 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5224 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5226 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
5227 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
5228 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
5229 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
5230 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
5231 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
5234 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
5235 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
5237 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5240 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
5241 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
5242 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
5243 the DoS mitigations.)
5245 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5246 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5247 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5248 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5251 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5252 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
5253 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
5254 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5256 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5257 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5258 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5259 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5260 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5261 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5262 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5263 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5264 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5265 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5266 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5267 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5268 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5270 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5271 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5272 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5273 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5274 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5275 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5276 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5277 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
5278 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
5279 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
5280 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5282 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5283 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
5284 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5286 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5287 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
5288 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
5289 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
5290 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
5291 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
5292 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5294 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5295 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
5296 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
5297 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5299 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5300 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5301 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5302 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5304 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5305 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5306 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5307 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5308 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5309 Closes ticket 24978.
5311 o Minor features (geoip):
5312 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5315 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5316 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
5317 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
5320 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5321 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5322 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5323 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5324 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5326 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5327 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5328 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5329 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5330 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5331 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5332 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5334 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5335 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5336 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5337 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5338 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5340 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5341 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
5342 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
5343 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5345 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5346 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
5347 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
5348 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
5349 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5352 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5353 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5354 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5357 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5358 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5359 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5361 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5362 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5363 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5364 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5366 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5367 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5369 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5370 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5372 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5373 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
5374 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
5376 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5377 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
5378 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
5379 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
5380 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5382 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5383 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5384 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5386 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
5387 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
5388 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
5392 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
5393 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
5394 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5395 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5397 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
5398 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
5399 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
5400 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
5401 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
5402 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5404 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5407 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
5408 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
5409 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
5410 the DoS mitigations.)
5412 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
5413 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5414 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5415 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5418 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
5419 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5420 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5421 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5422 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5423 Closes ticket 24978.
5425 o Minor features (logging):
5426 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
5427 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
5429 o Minor features (testing):
5430 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
5433 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
5434 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5435 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5436 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5437 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5438 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5439 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5441 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
5442 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
5443 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
5444 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5445 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
5446 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
5449 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
5450 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
5451 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
5452 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
5454 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5455 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
5456 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
5457 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
5458 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
5461 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
5462 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5464 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5465 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5467 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
5468 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
5469 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5470 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
5472 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5473 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5474 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5477 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
5478 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
5479 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
5480 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
5481 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
5482 it to older supported release series.
5484 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
5485 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5486 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5487 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5488 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5489 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5490 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5491 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5492 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5493 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5494 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5495 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5496 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5498 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
5499 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
5500 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
5501 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
5502 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
5503 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
5504 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
5505 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5507 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
5508 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
5509 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5511 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
5512 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
5513 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
5514 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5516 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5517 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5518 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5519 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5521 o Minor features (directory authority):
5522 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
5523 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
5525 o Minor features (geoip):
5526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5529 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
5530 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
5531 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
5534 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
5535 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5536 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5537 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5538 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5540 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
5541 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5542 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5543 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5544 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5546 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
5547 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
5548 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
5549 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
5552 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
5553 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
5554 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
5555 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5557 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5558 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
5559 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
5560 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5562 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5563 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5564 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5565 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5566 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
5567 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
5568 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5570 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5571 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
5572 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
5573 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
5574 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5575 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
5576 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
5577 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
5579 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5580 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
5581 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
5582 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
5583 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
5584 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
5585 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5587 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
5588 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
5589 would call the Rust implementation of
5590 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
5591 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
5592 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
5593 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
5594 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5596 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5597 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
5598 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
5601 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
5602 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
5603 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
5604 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
5605 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
5606 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5608 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5609 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
5610 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
5611 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
5612 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5614 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5615 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
5617 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
5618 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
5619 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
5622 o Documentation (man page):
5623 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
5624 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
5628 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
5629 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
5630 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
5631 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
5632 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
5633 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
5636 o Major features (embedding):
5637 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
5638 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
5639 Closes ticket 23684.
5640 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
5641 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
5642 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
5643 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
5644 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
5645 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
5647 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
5648 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
5649 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
5650 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
5651 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
5652 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
5653 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
5654 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
5655 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
5656 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
5657 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
5660 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
5661 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
5662 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
5663 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
5664 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
5665 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
5666 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
5668 o Major features (onion services):
5669 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
5670 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
5671 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
5672 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
5673 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
5676 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
5677 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
5678 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
5679 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
5680 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
5681 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
5682 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
5683 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
5685 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
5686 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
5687 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
5688 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
5689 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
5691 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
5692 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
5693 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
5694 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
5695 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
5696 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
5697 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5699 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
5700 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5701 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5702 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5703 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5704 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5705 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5706 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
5707 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
5708 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
5709 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5711 o Major bugfixes (relays):
5712 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
5713 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
5714 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
5715 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
5716 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
5717 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5719 o Minor feature (IPv6):
5720 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
5721 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
5722 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
5723 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
5724 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
5725 Implements ticket 23827.
5727 o Minor features (cleanup):
5728 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
5729 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
5731 o Minor features (defensive programming):
5732 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
5733 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
5734 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
5735 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
5736 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
5737 once. Part of ticket 24337.
5738 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
5739 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
5740 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
5742 o Minor features (embedding):
5743 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
5744 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
5745 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
5746 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
5747 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
5748 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
5749 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
5750 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
5751 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
5752 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
5753 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
5754 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
5755 Closes ticket 23848.
5756 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
5757 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
5758 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
5760 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5761 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
5762 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
5763 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
5764 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
5765 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
5766 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
5767 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
5770 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
5771 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
5772 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
5773 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
5774 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
5775 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
5776 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
5778 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
5779 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
5780 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
5781 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
5782 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
5783 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
5784 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
5785 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
5786 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
5787 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
5788 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
5789 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
5791 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
5792 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
5793 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
5795 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
5796 Implements ticket 24791.
5798 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
5799 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
5800 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
5801 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
5802 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
5803 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
5805 o Minor features (heartbeat):
5806 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
5807 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
5810 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
5811 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
5812 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
5813 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
5814 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
5816 o Minor features (log messages):
5817 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
5818 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
5819 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
5820 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
5822 o Minor features (logging, android):
5823 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
5826 o Minor features (performance):
5827 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
5828 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
5829 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
5830 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
5832 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
5833 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5834 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
5835 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
5836 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
5837 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
5838 Implements ticket 24374.
5840 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
5841 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
5842 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
5843 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
5844 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
5846 o Minor features (performance, windows):
5847 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
5848 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
5849 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
5852 o Major features (relay):
5853 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
5854 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
5855 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
5856 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
5857 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
5859 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
5860 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
5861 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
5862 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
5863 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
5864 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
5865 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
5866 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
5867 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
5869 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
5870 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
5871 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
5872 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5874 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
5875 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
5876 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
5877 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
5878 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
5879 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
5880 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5881 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
5882 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
5883 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
5884 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
5885 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
5888 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
5889 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
5890 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
5891 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
5894 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
5895 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
5896 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
5899 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
5900 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
5901 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
5903 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
5904 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5905 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
5906 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
5907 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
5909 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
5910 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5911 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
5912 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5914 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
5915 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
5916 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
5917 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
5918 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
5919 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5921 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5922 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
5923 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
5924 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
5926 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5927 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
5928 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
5929 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
5930 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5931 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
5934 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
5935 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5936 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5937 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5939 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
5940 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5941 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5942 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5944 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
5945 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
5946 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
5947 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
5948 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
5949 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5950 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
5951 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
5952 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
5953 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
5954 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
5955 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5957 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5958 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
5959 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5960 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
5961 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
5963 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5964 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
5966 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
5967 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
5968 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
5969 "aruna1234" and teor.
5970 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
5971 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
5972 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
5973 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
5975 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
5976 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
5977 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
5978 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
5979 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
5980 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
5981 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
5982 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
5983 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
5984 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
5986 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
5987 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
5990 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
5991 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
5993 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
5994 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
5995 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
5996 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
5997 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
5998 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
6001 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
6002 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
6003 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
6004 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
6005 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
6007 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
6008 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
6009 adding very little except for unit test.
6011 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
6012 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
6013 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
6014 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
6016 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
6017 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
6018 const. Implements ticket 24489.
6021 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
6022 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
6024 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
6025 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
6026 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
6027 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
6028 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
6029 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
6031 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6032 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6033 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6034 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6035 with the 0.2.9 series.
6037 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
6038 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6040 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6041 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
6042 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
6043 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
6044 information. Closes ticket 24801.
6045 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
6046 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
6047 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
6048 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
6050 o Minor features (geoip):
6051 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6054 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
6055 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
6056 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
6057 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
6058 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
6061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6062 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
6063 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6065 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
6066 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
6067 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
6068 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
6072 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
6073 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
6074 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
6075 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
6076 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
6077 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
6078 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
6080 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
6081 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
6082 will be nearly identical to this.
6084 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
6085 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
6086 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
6087 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
6088 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
6089 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
6090 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6092 o Minor features (geoip):
6093 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6096 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
6097 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
6098 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
6099 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6101 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
6102 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
6103 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
6104 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
6105 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
6108 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
6109 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
6110 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
6111 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
6112 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
6113 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6116 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
6117 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
6118 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
6120 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
6121 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
6122 be nearly identical to this.
6124 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
6125 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
6126 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
6127 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
6128 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
6129 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
6130 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6132 o Minor features (logging):
6133 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
6136 o Minor features (portability):
6137 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
6138 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
6141 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
6142 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
6143 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
6144 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
6145 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6146 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
6147 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
6148 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
6149 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6150 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
6151 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
6152 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
6153 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6155 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6156 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
6157 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6159 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6160 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
6161 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
6162 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
6163 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
6164 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
6165 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
6168 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6169 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
6170 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
6171 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
6172 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
6173 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
6174 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
6177 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
6178 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
6179 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6180 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
6181 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
6182 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
6183 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6184 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
6185 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
6186 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6189 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
6190 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
6191 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
6192 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
6195 o Major bugfixes (security):
6196 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6197 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6198 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6199 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6200 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6201 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6202 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6203 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6204 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6205 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6207 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6208 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6209 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6210 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6211 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6212 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6213 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6216 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
6217 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6218 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6219 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6220 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6222 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
6223 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6224 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6225 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6226 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6227 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6228 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6229 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6230 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6232 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
6233 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
6234 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
6235 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
6237 o Minor features (directory authority):
6238 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6241 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6242 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
6243 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
6244 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6247 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
6248 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
6249 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
6250 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
6252 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6253 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6254 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6255 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6256 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6257 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6258 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6259 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6260 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6261 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6262 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6264 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6265 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6266 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6267 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6268 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6269 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6270 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6273 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6274 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6275 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6276 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6277 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6279 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6280 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6281 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6282 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6283 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6284 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6285 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6286 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6287 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6289 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6290 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6291 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6292 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6293 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6294 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6297 o Minor features (bridge):
6298 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6299 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6300 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6301 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6304 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6305 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6308 o Minor features (geoip):
6309 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6312 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6313 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6314 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6315 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6316 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6318 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6319 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6320 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6322 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6323 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6324 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6325 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6326 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6327 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6329 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6330 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
6331 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
6334 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6335 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6336 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6337 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6338 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6341 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
6342 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6343 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6344 to another of the releases coming out today.
6346 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
6347 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6348 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6350 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6351 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6352 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6353 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6354 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6355 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6356 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6357 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6358 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6359 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6360 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6362 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6363 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6364 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6365 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6366 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6367 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6368 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6371 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6372 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6373 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6374 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6375 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6377 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6378 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6379 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6380 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6381 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6382 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6383 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6384 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6385 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6387 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6388 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6389 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6390 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6391 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6392 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6395 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6396 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6397 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6398 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6399 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6400 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6402 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6403 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6404 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6405 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6406 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6409 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6410 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6413 o Minor features (geoip):
6414 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6417 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6418 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6419 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6420 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6421 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6423 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6424 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6425 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6427 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6428 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6429 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6430 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6431 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6432 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6435 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6436 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6437 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6438 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6440 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6441 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6442 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6445 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
6446 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6447 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6448 to another of the releases coming out today.
6450 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6451 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6452 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6453 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6454 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6455 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6458 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6459 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6460 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6461 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6462 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6463 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6464 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6465 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6466 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6467 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6468 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6470 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6471 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6472 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6473 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6474 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6475 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6476 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6479 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6480 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6481 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6482 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6483 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6485 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6486 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6487 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6488 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6489 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6490 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6492 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6493 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6494 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6495 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6496 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6499 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6500 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6503 o Minor features (geoip):
6504 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6507 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6508 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6509 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6510 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6511 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6512 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6514 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6515 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6516 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6517 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6518 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6520 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6521 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6522 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6524 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6525 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6526 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6527 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6528 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6529 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6531 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6532 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6533 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6534 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6535 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6537 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6538 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6539 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6542 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
6543 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6544 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6545 to another of the releases coming out today.
6547 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6548 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
6549 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6551 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6552 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6553 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6554 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6555 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6556 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6557 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6558 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6559 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6560 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6561 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6562 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6563 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6564 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6565 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6568 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6569 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6570 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6571 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6572 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6574 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6575 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
6576 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
6577 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
6578 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
6581 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6582 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6583 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6584 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6585 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6588 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6589 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6592 o Minor features (geoip):
6593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6596 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6597 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6598 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6601 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
6602 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6603 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6604 to another of the releases coming out today.
6606 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6607 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6608 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6610 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6611 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6612 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6613 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6614 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6615 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6616 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6617 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6618 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6619 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6620 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6621 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6622 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6623 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6624 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6627 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6628 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6629 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6630 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6631 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6632 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6634 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6635 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6636 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6637 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6638 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6641 o Minor features (geoip):
6642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6646 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
6647 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
6648 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
6649 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
6650 since the 0.3.0.x series.
6652 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
6653 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
6656 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
6657 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
6658 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
6659 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
6660 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
6661 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
6662 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
6663 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
6664 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
6665 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
6666 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
6669 o Minor features (directory authority):
6670 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
6671 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
6672 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
6673 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
6675 o Minor features (geoip):
6676 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6679 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6680 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
6681 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
6683 o Minor features (logging):
6684 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
6685 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
6687 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
6688 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
6690 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6691 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
6692 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
6693 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6694 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
6695 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
6696 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
6697 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6699 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6700 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
6701 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
6704 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
6705 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
6706 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
6707 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6709 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
6710 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
6711 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6712 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
6713 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
6714 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
6715 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
6716 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
6717 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
6720 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6721 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
6722 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6723 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
6724 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
6725 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
6726 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6728 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
6729 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
6730 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
6731 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
6732 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
6733 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6735 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6736 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
6737 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
6738 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
6739 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6740 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
6741 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
6743 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
6744 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
6745 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6747 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6748 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
6749 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
6750 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
6751 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
6752 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
6753 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
6754 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
6757 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
6758 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
6759 section. Closes ticket 24254.
6762 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
6763 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
6764 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
6765 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
6768 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
6769 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6770 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6771 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6772 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6773 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6776 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
6777 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
6778 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
6779 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
6780 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6782 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
6783 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
6784 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
6785 Closes ticket 23753.
6787 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
6788 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
6789 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
6790 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
6791 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
6793 o Minor features (testing):
6794 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
6795 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
6797 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
6798 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
6799 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
6800 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
6801 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6803 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
6804 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
6805 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
6806 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
6807 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
6810 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
6811 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
6812 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
6813 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
6814 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6816 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
6817 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
6818 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
6819 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6821 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6822 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
6823 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
6825 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
6826 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6827 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
6829 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6830 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
6831 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
6832 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6833 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
6834 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6836 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
6837 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
6838 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
6839 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
6840 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
6841 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
6842 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6843 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
6844 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
6845 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6846 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
6847 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
6849 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
6850 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6851 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6852 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6853 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6855 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6856 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
6857 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6858 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
6859 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
6860 Closes ticket 24109.
6863 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
6864 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
6865 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
6866 directory authority, Bastet.
6868 o Directory authority changes:
6869 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6870 Closes ticket 23910.
6871 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6872 Closes ticket 23592.
6874 o Minor features (bridge):
6875 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
6876 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
6877 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
6878 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
6879 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
6880 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
6881 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
6883 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
6884 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
6885 Resolves ticket 23670.
6887 o Minor features (geoip):
6888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6891 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
6892 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
6893 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
6894 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6896 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6897 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
6898 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6900 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
6901 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
6902 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
6903 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
6904 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
6905 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6907 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
6908 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
6909 only fetch the service descriptor once.
6910 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
6911 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
6912 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6915 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
6916 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
6917 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
6919 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
6920 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
6921 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6923 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
6924 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
6925 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
6926 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
6927 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
6929 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
6930 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
6931 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6933 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6934 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
6935 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
6938 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6939 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
6940 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6941 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
6942 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6943 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
6944 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
6945 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
6947 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
6948 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
6949 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6950 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
6951 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
6954 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
6955 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
6956 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
6957 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
6958 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
6962 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
6963 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
6964 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
6966 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6967 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6968 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6970 o Directory authority changes:
6971 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
6972 Closes ticket 23910.
6973 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
6974 Closes ticket 23592.
6976 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6977 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
6978 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
6979 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
6980 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
6982 o Minor features (geoip):
6983 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6986 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
6987 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
6988 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
6989 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
6990 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
6991 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
6992 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
6993 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
6994 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
6996 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
6997 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
6998 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
6999 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7000 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7001 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7002 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7003 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7004 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7007 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
7008 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7009 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7010 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7012 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
7013 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
7014 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7016 o Directory authority changes:
7017 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7018 Closes ticket 23910.
7019 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7020 Closes ticket 23592.
7022 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7023 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7024 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7025 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7027 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7028 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7029 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7030 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7031 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7033 o Minor features (geoip):
7034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7038 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
7039 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7040 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7041 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7043 o Directory authority changes:
7044 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7045 Closes ticket 23910.
7046 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7047 Closes ticket 23592.
7049 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7050 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7051 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7052 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7054 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7055 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7056 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7057 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7058 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7060 o Minor features (geoip):
7061 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7064 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7065 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7066 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7067 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7068 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7069 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7070 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7071 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7074 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7075 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7076 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7078 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7079 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7080 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7081 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7082 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7083 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7084 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7087 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
7088 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7089 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7090 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7092 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
7093 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
7094 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7096 o Directory authority changes:
7097 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7098 Closes ticket 23910.
7099 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7100 Closes ticket 23592.
7102 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7103 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7104 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7105 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7107 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7108 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7109 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7110 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7111 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7113 o Minor features (geoip):
7114 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7117 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7118 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7119 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7120 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7121 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7122 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7123 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7124 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7127 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7128 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7129 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7130 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7132 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7133 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7134 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7136 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7137 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7138 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7139 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7140 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7141 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7142 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7145 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
7146 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
7147 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
7148 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
7149 a new directory authority, Bastet.
7151 o Directory authority changes:
7152 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7153 Closes ticket 23910.
7154 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7155 Closes ticket 23592.
7157 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7158 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7159 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7160 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7162 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7163 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7164 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7165 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7166 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7168 o Minor features (geoip):
7169 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7172 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7173 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
7174 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7175 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
7177 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7178 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
7179 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
7182 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7183 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
7184 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
7186 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7187 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7188 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7189 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7191 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7192 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7193 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7195 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7196 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
7197 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
7201 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
7202 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
7203 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
7204 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
7205 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
7206 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
7208 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
7209 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
7210 include better testing and logging.
7212 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
7215 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
7216 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7217 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7218 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7220 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
7221 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
7222 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
7223 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
7224 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
7225 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
7226 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7228 o Minor features (build, compilation):
7229 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
7230 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
7231 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
7232 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
7233 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
7234 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
7235 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
7236 Closes ticket 23643.
7238 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7239 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7240 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7241 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7242 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7244 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
7245 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
7246 the circuit identifier(s).
7247 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
7248 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
7250 o Minor features (logging):
7251 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
7252 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
7253 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
7254 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
7255 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
7257 o Minor features (relay):
7258 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
7259 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
7260 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
7261 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
7263 o Minor features (robustness):
7264 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
7265 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
7267 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
7268 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
7269 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
7270 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
7271 related to ticket 23080.
7273 o Minor features (testing):
7274 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
7275 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
7278 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7279 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
7280 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
7282 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
7283 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
7286 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
7287 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
7288 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7289 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
7290 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
7291 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
7292 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
7293 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
7294 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7296 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7297 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
7298 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
7301 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7302 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
7303 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
7304 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7306 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
7307 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
7308 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
7309 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
7310 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7311 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
7312 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
7313 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
7316 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
7317 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7318 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7319 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7321 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
7322 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7323 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7324 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7325 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7326 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7328 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7329 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
7330 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
7331 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7332 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
7333 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
7334 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7335 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
7336 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7337 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
7338 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
7340 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
7341 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
7342 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
7343 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7344 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
7345 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7347 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7348 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
7349 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
7351 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
7352 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
7354 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
7355 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
7356 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7358 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7359 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
7360 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
7363 o Deprecated features:
7364 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
7365 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
7366 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
7369 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
7370 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7371 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
7372 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
7373 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
7374 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
7375 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
7376 Closes ticket 18736.
7379 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
7380 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
7381 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
7382 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
7383 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
7384 features and bugfixes here.
7386 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
7388 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
7389 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
7390 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
7391 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
7392 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
7393 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
7394 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
7395 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
7396 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
7397 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
7398 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
7399 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
7401 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
7402 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
7403 more information, see the design paper at
7404 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
7405 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
7406 Closes ticket 12541.
7408 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
7409 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
7410 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
7411 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
7412 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
7413 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
7416 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
7417 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
7419 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
7422 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
7425 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
7427 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
7429 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
7431 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
7432 they are 56 characters long, as in
7433 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
7435 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
7436 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
7437 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
7438 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
7439 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
7442 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
7443 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
7444 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
7445 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
7446 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
7447 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
7450 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
7451 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
7452 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
7453 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
7455 o Minor features (bug detection):
7456 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
7457 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
7458 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
7460 o Minor features (client):
7461 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
7462 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
7463 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
7464 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
7465 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
7466 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
7467 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
7468 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
7469 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
7470 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
7472 o Minor features (command line):
7473 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
7474 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
7475 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
7477 o Minor features (control port):
7478 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
7479 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
7480 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
7482 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
7483 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
7485 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
7486 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
7487 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
7488 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
7489 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
7490 Closes ticket 23237.
7491 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
7492 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
7494 o Minor features (development support):
7495 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
7496 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
7497 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
7498 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
7499 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
7500 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
7502 o Minor features (ed25519):
7503 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
7504 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
7505 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
7507 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
7508 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
7509 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
7511 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
7512 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
7513 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
7514 another program, regardless of the settings of
7515 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
7516 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
7517 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
7519 o Minor features (logging):
7520 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
7521 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
7522 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
7524 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
7525 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
7527 o Minor features (portability):
7528 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
7529 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
7530 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
7531 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
7533 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
7534 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
7535 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
7536 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
7537 results. Closes ticket 22731.
7539 o Minor features (startup, safety):
7540 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
7541 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
7544 o Minor features (static analysis):
7545 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
7546 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
7549 o Minor features (testing):
7550 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
7551 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
7552 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
7553 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
7554 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
7556 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
7557 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
7558 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
7559 Coverity as CID 1415728.
7561 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
7562 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
7563 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
7564 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
7565 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
7566 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
7567 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
7568 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7570 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7571 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
7572 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
7573 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
7574 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7575 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
7576 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
7577 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
7579 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7580 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7581 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7583 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
7584 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
7585 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
7586 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7588 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
7589 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
7590 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
7591 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
7592 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
7593 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
7595 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
7596 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
7599 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
7600 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
7601 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
7602 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7604 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
7605 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
7606 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
7607 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
7608 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
7609 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
7610 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
7613 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
7614 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
7615 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
7616 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7618 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
7619 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
7620 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7622 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7623 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
7624 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
7625 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7626 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
7627 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
7629 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
7630 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
7631 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
7633 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
7634 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
7635 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
7637 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
7638 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
7639 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
7640 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
7642 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7643 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
7644 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7646 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7647 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
7648 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
7649 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
7650 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7651 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7652 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7653 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7655 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7656 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
7657 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
7658 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7659 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
7660 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
7661 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7663 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
7664 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
7665 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
7666 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7668 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7669 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
7670 function from the general code to handle channel state
7671 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
7672 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
7673 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
7674 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
7675 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
7676 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
7677 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
7678 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
7680 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
7681 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
7683 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
7684 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
7685 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
7686 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
7687 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7688 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
7689 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
7690 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
7691 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
7692 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
7693 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
7694 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
7696 o Deprecated features:
7697 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
7698 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
7699 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
7703 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
7704 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
7705 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
7706 Closes ticket 15645.
7707 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
7708 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
7709 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
7710 file. Closes ticket 21148.
7713 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
7714 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
7715 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
7716 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
7717 Closes ticket 21031.
7718 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
7719 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
7722 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
7723 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
7726 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7727 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7728 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7729 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7731 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
7732 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
7733 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
7734 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
7736 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7737 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7738 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7739 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7740 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7746 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7747 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7748 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7751 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7752 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7753 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7754 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7755 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7756 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7757 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7758 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7759 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7761 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7762 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7763 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7764 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7765 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7766 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7767 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7768 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7769 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7772 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
7773 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
7776 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7777 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7778 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7779 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7781 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
7782 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
7783 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
7784 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
7785 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
7786 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
7787 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
7789 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
7790 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
7791 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
7792 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
7794 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
7795 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
7796 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7798 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7799 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
7800 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7801 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
7803 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7804 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7805 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7806 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7807 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7809 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
7810 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7811 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7812 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7814 o Minor features (geoip):
7815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7818 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7819 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
7820 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
7821 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
7823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7824 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
7825 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7826 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
7827 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7828 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
7829 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
7830 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7832 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7833 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
7834 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7836 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7837 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7838 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7841 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7842 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7843 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7844 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
7845 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7847 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7848 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
7849 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
7850 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
7851 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
7852 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7854 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7855 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7856 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7857 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7858 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7859 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7860 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7861 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7862 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7864 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7865 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7866 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7867 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7869 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7870 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
7871 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7873 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7874 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
7875 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
7876 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
7877 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7879 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
7880 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
7881 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
7884 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7885 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
7886 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
7887 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
7888 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7890 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7891 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7892 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7893 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7894 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7895 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7896 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7897 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7898 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7901 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
7902 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
7905 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7906 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7907 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7908 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7910 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7911 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
7912 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
7913 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
7916 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7920 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
7921 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7923 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
7924 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7925 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7926 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
7927 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7929 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7930 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
7931 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
7932 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7934 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7935 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
7936 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
7938 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
7939 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
7940 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
7941 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
7944 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
7945 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
7947 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
7948 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
7949 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
7950 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
7951 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
7952 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
7953 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
7955 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
7956 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
7957 disabled. For more information, see
7958 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7960 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
7961 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
7962 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
7963 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
7964 with the 0.2.9 series.
7966 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
7967 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7969 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
7970 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
7971 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
7972 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
7973 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
7975 o Minor features (defensive programming):
7976 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
7977 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
7978 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
7981 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7982 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
7983 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
7984 attempt for bug 23105.
7986 o Minor features (geoip):
7987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7991 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
7992 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7994 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7995 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
7996 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7997 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
7998 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8000 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8001 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
8002 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
8003 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8005 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8006 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
8007 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
8011 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
8012 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
8013 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
8014 Windows directory caches.
8016 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
8017 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
8018 will be nearly identical to it.
8020 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
8021 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
8022 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
8023 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
8024 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
8025 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8027 o Minor features (directory authority):
8028 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
8029 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
8030 Closes ticket 22348.
8032 o Minor features (geoip):
8033 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8036 o Minor features (testing):
8037 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
8040 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
8041 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
8042 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8045 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
8046 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
8047 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
8048 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
8049 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
8050 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
8051 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
8052 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
8053 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8055 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
8056 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
8057 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
8059 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
8060 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
8061 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
8062 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8064 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8065 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
8066 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
8067 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
8068 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8070 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
8071 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
8072 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
8073 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
8074 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
8075 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
8077 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
8078 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
8079 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
8080 with the clang static analyzer.
8082 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8083 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
8084 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
8085 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
8086 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
8089 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
8090 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
8091 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
8092 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
8093 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
8094 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8095 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
8098 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
8099 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
8100 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
8101 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
8103 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8104 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8105 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8106 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8107 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8108 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8109 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8110 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8111 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8113 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8114 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8115 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8116 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8118 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8119 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8120 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8121 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8122 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8124 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8125 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8128 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
8129 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8130 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8131 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8133 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8134 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
8135 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8136 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
8137 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8138 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
8139 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
8140 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
8143 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8144 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
8145 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
8148 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8149 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8150 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8151 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8152 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8153 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8155 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8156 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
8157 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
8158 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8160 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8161 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8162 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8164 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
8165 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
8166 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8169 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
8170 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
8171 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
8172 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
8173 next version will be a release candidate.
8175 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
8176 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
8177 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
8178 one of those versions should upgrade.
8180 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
8181 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8182 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8183 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8184 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8185 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8186 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8187 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8188 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8190 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
8191 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8192 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8193 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8194 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8196 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
8197 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
8198 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
8199 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
8200 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
8201 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8203 o Minor features (bridge authority):
8204 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
8205 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
8207 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
8208 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
8209 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
8210 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
8211 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
8214 o Minor features (geoip):
8215 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8218 o Minor features (relay, performance):
8219 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
8220 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
8221 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
8222 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
8223 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
8226 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
8227 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
8228 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
8229 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
8230 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
8232 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
8233 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
8234 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
8235 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
8236 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8238 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
8239 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
8240 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8241 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
8242 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8243 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
8244 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
8245 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8246 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
8247 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
8248 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
8251 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
8252 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8253 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8254 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8255 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8256 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8258 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8259 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8260 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8261 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8262 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8263 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8264 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
8265 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
8268 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
8269 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
8270 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
8273 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
8274 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8275 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8276 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8278 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8279 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8280 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8282 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8283 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
8284 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
8285 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
8287 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8288 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
8289 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
8290 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
8291 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8292 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
8293 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8296 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
8297 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
8298 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
8299 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
8300 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
8303 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
8304 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
8308 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
8309 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
8310 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
8311 close ticket 22623.)
8313 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
8314 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
8315 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
8316 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
8317 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
8318 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
8320 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
8321 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
8322 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
8323 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8325 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
8326 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
8327 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
8328 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
8329 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8331 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8332 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
8333 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
8334 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8336 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
8337 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
8338 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
8339 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
8341 o Minor features (geoip):
8342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8345 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
8346 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
8347 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
8349 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
8350 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8351 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
8352 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
8353 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
8354 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
8356 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
8357 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
8359 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
8360 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
8361 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
8362 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
8363 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8365 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
8366 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
8367 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
8368 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
8369 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8370 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8371 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8372 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8373 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8374 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8375 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8376 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8378 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8379 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8380 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8381 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8382 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8383 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
8384 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
8385 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
8386 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8388 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8389 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
8390 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
8391 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8392 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
8393 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
8394 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8395 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
8396 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
8397 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
8398 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8399 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
8400 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
8401 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
8402 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
8403 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
8406 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
8407 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
8408 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
8409 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
8410 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
8411 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
8415 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
8417 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
8418 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
8420 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
8421 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
8422 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
8426 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
8427 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
8428 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
8429 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
8430 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
8433 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
8436 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8437 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
8438 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
8439 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
8440 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
8441 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
8443 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8444 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
8445 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
8446 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8448 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8449 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
8450 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
8451 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8453 o Minor features (geoip):
8454 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8457 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8458 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8459 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8460 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8461 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8464 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8465 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8466 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8467 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8469 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8470 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8471 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8472 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8473 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8474 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8475 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8476 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8477 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8480 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
8481 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
8482 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8483 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8484 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
8486 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
8487 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8488 bugfixes described below.
8490 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8491 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
8492 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
8493 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8494 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8495 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8496 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8499 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
8500 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8501 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8502 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8503 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8504 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8505 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8508 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
8509 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
8510 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
8511 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
8512 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
8513 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
8514 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
8515 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8516 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
8517 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
8518 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
8519 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
8520 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
8523 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
8524 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
8525 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
8527 o Minor features (code style):
8528 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8529 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8530 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8532 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8533 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
8534 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
8535 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
8536 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
8538 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8539 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8540 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8542 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
8543 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
8544 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8546 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
8547 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
8548 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
8549 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
8550 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
8551 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
8552 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8554 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
8555 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
8556 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
8557 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
8558 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8560 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8561 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
8562 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
8566 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
8569 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
8570 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
8571 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8572 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8573 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
8575 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
8576 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8577 bugfixes described below.
8579 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
8580 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8581 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
8582 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
8583 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8584 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8585 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8586 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8589 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8590 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8591 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8592 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8593 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8594 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8595 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8598 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8599 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
8600 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
8601 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
8602 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
8603 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
8604 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
8605 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8606 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
8607 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
8608 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
8609 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
8610 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
8613 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8614 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
8615 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
8618 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8619 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8620 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8621 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8622 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8624 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8625 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
8626 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8628 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8629 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8630 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8632 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8633 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
8634 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
8635 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
8636 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
8637 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
8638 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8640 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
8642 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8643 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8644 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8647 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
8648 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8649 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8650 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8651 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8652 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8654 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
8655 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8656 bugfixes described below.
8658 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
8659 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8660 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8661 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8662 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8665 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8666 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8667 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8668 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8669 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8670 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8671 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8674 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8675 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8676 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8677 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8678 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8680 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
8681 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
8682 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
8683 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
8684 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
8685 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
8686 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
8688 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
8689 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
8690 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
8691 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
8692 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
8694 o Minor features (geoip):
8695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8698 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
8699 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
8700 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
8701 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8703 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8704 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8705 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
8708 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
8709 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
8710 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
8711 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
8714 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
8715 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
8716 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8717 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8718 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8720 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
8721 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8722 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8723 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8724 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8725 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8727 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8728 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8729 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8730 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8733 o Minor features (geoip):
8734 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8737 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8738 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8739 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8740 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8741 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8743 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8744 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8745 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8747 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
8748 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8749 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8750 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8751 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8752 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8754 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8755 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8756 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8757 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8760 o Minor features (geoip):
8761 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8764 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8765 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8766 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8769 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
8770 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8771 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8772 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8773 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8774 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8776 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8777 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8778 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8779 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8782 o Minor features (geoip):
8783 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8786 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8787 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8788 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8790 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
8791 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8792 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8793 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8794 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8795 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8797 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8798 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8799 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8800 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8803 o Minor features (geoip):
8804 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8807 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8808 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8809 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8811 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
8812 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8813 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8814 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8815 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8816 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8818 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8819 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8820 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8821 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8824 o Minor features (geoip):
8825 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8828 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8829 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8830 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8833 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
8834 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
8835 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
8836 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
8838 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
8839 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
8840 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
8841 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
8842 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8844 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8845 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
8846 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
8849 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
8850 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8851 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8852 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8855 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
8856 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
8857 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
8858 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
8859 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
8862 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
8863 security, correctness, and performance.
8865 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
8867 o Major features (directory protocol):
8868 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
8869 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
8870 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
8871 now request these documents when available. When both client and
8872 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
8873 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
8874 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
8875 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
8876 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
8877 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
8878 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
8879 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
8880 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
8881 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
8882 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
8883 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
8884 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
8886 o Major features (experimental):
8887 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
8888 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
8889 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
8890 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
8891 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
8892 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
8893 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
8895 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
8896 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
8897 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
8898 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
8899 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
8900 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
8903 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
8904 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
8905 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
8906 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
8907 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
8908 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
8909 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
8910 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
8911 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
8912 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
8915 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
8916 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
8917 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
8918 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
8919 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
8920 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
8921 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
8922 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
8923 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8924 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
8925 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
8926 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
8927 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
8928 Otherwise it is at info.
8930 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8931 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
8932 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
8933 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8935 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
8936 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8937 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8938 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8940 o Minor features (security, windows):
8941 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
8942 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
8943 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
8944 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
8945 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
8947 o Minor features (config options):
8948 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
8949 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
8950 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
8951 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
8952 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
8953 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
8954 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
8955 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
8957 o Minor features (controller):
8958 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
8959 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
8961 o Minor features (defaults):
8962 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
8963 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
8964 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
8965 can. Closes ticket 21407.
8966 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
8967 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
8968 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
8969 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
8970 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
8971 Closes ticket 21641.
8973 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8974 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
8975 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
8976 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8977 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8978 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8979 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8981 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
8982 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
8983 introduction points than specified in
8984 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
8985 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
8986 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
8987 21594; closes ticket 21622.
8988 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
8989 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
8990 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
8991 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
8993 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8994 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
8995 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
8996 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
8997 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
8998 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
8999 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
9000 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
9001 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
9002 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
9004 o Minor features (logging):
9005 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
9006 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
9007 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
9008 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
9011 o Minor features (performance):
9012 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
9013 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
9015 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
9016 speed some controller functions.
9018 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
9019 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
9020 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
9021 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
9023 o Minor features (safety):
9024 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
9025 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
9026 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
9029 o Minor features (testing):
9030 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
9031 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
9032 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
9033 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
9034 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
9035 on. Closes ticket 21439.
9036 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
9037 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
9038 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
9039 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
9040 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
9041 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
9042 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
9043 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
9044 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
9045 21507. Partially implements 21470.
9047 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
9048 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9049 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9050 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9053 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
9054 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
9055 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
9058 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9059 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
9060 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9062 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
9063 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
9064 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
9065 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
9066 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
9067 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
9068 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9069 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
9070 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
9071 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
9072 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
9073 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
9074 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
9075 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
9077 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9078 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
9079 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9080 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
9081 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
9082 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
9083 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
9084 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9087 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
9088 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
9089 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9090 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
9091 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
9092 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9094 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
9095 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
9096 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
9097 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
9098 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9101 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
9102 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9103 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
9104 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
9105 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9106 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
9107 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9108 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
9109 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
9110 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9112 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9113 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
9114 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
9115 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9116 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
9117 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
9118 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9120 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9121 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
9122 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9124 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
9125 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
9126 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
9127 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
9128 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
9130 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9131 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
9132 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
9133 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9134 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
9135 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9136 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
9137 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
9138 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
9139 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
9141 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
9142 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9143 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9144 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9145 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9147 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
9148 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
9149 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9151 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9152 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
9153 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
9154 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
9155 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
9156 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
9157 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
9158 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
9159 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
9160 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
9161 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
9162 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
9164 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
9165 Resolves ticket 22213.
9166 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
9167 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
9168 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
9169 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
9170 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
9171 types. Closes ticket 21651.
9172 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
9173 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
9176 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
9177 Closes ticket 21873.
9178 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
9179 Closes ticket 21151.
9180 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
9181 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
9183 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
9184 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9185 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
9186 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
9188 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
9189 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
9190 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9191 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
9192 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
9193 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
9194 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
9195 default behavior is now unavailable.
9196 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
9197 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
9198 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
9199 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
9200 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
9201 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
9202 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
9204 o Removed features (tools):
9205 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
9206 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
9207 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
9208 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
9209 required. Closes ticket 21842.
9212 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
9213 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
9214 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
9215 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
9216 clients are not affected.
9218 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
9219 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
9220 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
9221 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
9222 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
9223 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9229 o Minor features (future-proofing):
9230 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
9231 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
9232 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
9233 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
9234 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
9235 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
9237 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9238 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
9239 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
9240 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
9241 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
9245 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
9246 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
9248 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
9249 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
9250 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
9251 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
9252 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
9253 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
9256 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
9257 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
9259 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
9260 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
9261 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
9262 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
9263 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
9265 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
9266 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9268 o Minor features (geoip):
9269 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9272 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9273 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
9274 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
9275 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9277 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
9278 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
9279 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
9280 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9283 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
9284 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
9285 0.3.0 release series.
9287 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
9288 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
9289 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
9292 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
9293 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
9294 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
9295 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9297 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
9298 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
9299 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
9300 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9301 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
9303 o Minor features (geoip):
9304 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9307 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
9308 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
9309 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
9310 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
9313 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9314 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
9315 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
9316 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9317 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
9318 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
9319 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
9320 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9322 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9323 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
9324 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9327 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
9328 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
9331 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9332 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
9333 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
9334 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
9335 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9338 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
9339 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
9340 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
9344 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
9345 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
9346 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
9347 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9348 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
9351 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
9352 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
9353 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9355 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9356 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9357 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9358 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9359 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9360 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9361 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9363 o Minor features (geoip):
9364 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9368 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
9369 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9370 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
9371 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9374 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
9375 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9376 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9378 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9379 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9381 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9382 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9383 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9385 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9386 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9387 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9390 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9391 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9392 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9393 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9394 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9395 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9396 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9397 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9398 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9400 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9401 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9402 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9403 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9404 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9405 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9406 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9407 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9408 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9409 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9410 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9411 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9412 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9414 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9415 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9416 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9417 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9418 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9420 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9421 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9422 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9424 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9425 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9426 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9427 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9428 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9429 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9430 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9433 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9434 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9435 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9436 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9437 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9438 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9439 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9441 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9442 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9443 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9444 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9447 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9448 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9449 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9450 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9452 o Minor features (geoip):
9453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9457 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
9458 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9459 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
9460 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9463 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
9464 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9465 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9467 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9468 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9470 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9471 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9472 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9474 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9475 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9476 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9479 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9480 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9481 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9482 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9483 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9484 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9485 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9486 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9487 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9489 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9490 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9491 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9492 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9493 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9494 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9495 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9496 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9497 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9499 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9500 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9501 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9502 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9503 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9505 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9506 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9507 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9508 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9509 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9512 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9513 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9514 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9515 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9516 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9518 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9519 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9520 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9522 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9523 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9524 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9525 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9526 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9527 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9530 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9531 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9532 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9533 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9534 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9535 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9536 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9539 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9540 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9541 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9542 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9543 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9544 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9545 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9547 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9548 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9549 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9550 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9553 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9554 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9555 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9556 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9558 o Minor features (geoip):
9559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9563 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9564 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9567 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
9568 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9569 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
9570 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9573 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
9574 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
9575 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9577 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9578 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9580 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9581 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9582 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9584 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9585 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9586 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9589 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9590 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9591 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9592 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9593 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9594 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9595 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9596 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9597 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9599 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9600 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9601 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9602 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9603 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9604 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9605 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9606 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9607 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9609 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9610 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9611 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9612 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9613 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9615 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9616 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9617 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9618 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9619 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9622 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9623 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9624 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9625 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9626 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9628 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9629 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9630 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9632 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9633 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9634 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9635 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9636 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9637 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9640 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9641 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9642 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9643 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9644 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9645 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9646 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9649 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9650 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9651 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9652 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9653 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9654 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9655 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9657 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9658 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9659 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9660 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9663 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9664 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9665 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9666 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9668 o Minor features (geoip):
9669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9672 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9673 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9674 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9676 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
9677 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9678 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9679 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9680 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9681 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9683 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9684 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9685 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9689 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
9690 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9691 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
9692 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9695 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
9696 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9697 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9699 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9700 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9702 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9703 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9704 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9706 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9707 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9708 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9711 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9712 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9713 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9714 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9715 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9716 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9717 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9718 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9719 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9721 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9722 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9723 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9724 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9725 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9726 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9727 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9728 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9729 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9731 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9732 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9733 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9734 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9735 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9738 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9739 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9740 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9741 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9742 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9744 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9745 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9746 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9748 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9749 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9750 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9751 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9752 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9753 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9756 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9757 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9758 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9759 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9760 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9761 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9762 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9765 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9766 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9767 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9768 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9769 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9770 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9771 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9773 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9774 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9775 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9776 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9779 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9780 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9781 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9782 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9784 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9785 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
9786 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
9787 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
9789 o Minor features (geoip):
9790 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9793 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9794 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9795 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9797 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9798 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9799 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9803 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
9804 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
9805 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
9806 keep them from coming back.
9808 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
9809 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
9810 will be nearly identical to it.
9812 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
9813 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
9814 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
9815 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
9816 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
9817 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9819 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
9820 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
9821 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9823 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
9824 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
9825 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
9826 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
9827 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
9828 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
9829 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
9830 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
9831 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
9832 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9833 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9834 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9835 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9836 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9837 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9839 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
9840 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
9841 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
9843 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9844 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
9845 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
9847 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
9848 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
9849 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9850 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
9851 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
9852 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
9853 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
9855 o Minor features (geoip):
9856 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9859 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
9860 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
9861 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
9864 o Minor features (testing):
9865 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
9866 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
9867 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
9869 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
9870 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
9871 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
9873 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9874 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
9875 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
9876 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
9877 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
9878 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9880 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9881 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
9882 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
9883 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9884 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
9885 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
9886 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
9889 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9890 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
9891 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
9892 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9893 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
9894 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
9895 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9897 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9898 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
9899 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
9900 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
9901 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
9902 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9904 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9905 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
9906 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
9908 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
9909 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9910 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
9911 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
9912 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9915 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
9918 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
9919 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
9920 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
9921 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
9923 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
9924 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
9925 least January of 2020.
9927 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9928 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
9929 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
9930 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
9933 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9934 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
9935 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
9936 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
9937 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
9938 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
9939 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9941 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9942 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9943 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9944 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9945 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9946 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9947 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9949 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9950 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
9951 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
9953 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
9954 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
9955 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9957 o Minor features (geoip):
9958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9961 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9962 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
9963 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
9965 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
9966 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
9968 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
9969 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
9970 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
9972 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
9973 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
9974 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
9975 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9976 Patch by "junglefowl".
9979 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
9980 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
9981 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
9982 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
9983 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
9984 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
9986 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
9987 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
9988 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
9991 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9992 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
9993 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
9994 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
9996 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
9997 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
9998 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
9999 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
10000 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10002 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10003 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
10004 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
10005 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
10006 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10008 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
10009 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
10010 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
10011 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
10012 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
10013 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
10014 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10016 o Minor feature (client):
10017 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
10018 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
10020 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
10021 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
10022 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
10023 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
10025 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
10026 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
10027 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
10028 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
10029 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
10031 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
10032 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
10033 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
10034 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
10035 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
10036 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
10037 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
10038 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
10039 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
10040 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
10042 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
10043 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
10044 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
10046 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
10047 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
10049 o Minor features (relay):
10050 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
10051 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
10052 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
10053 Written by Michael Sonntag.
10055 o Minor bugfix (logging):
10056 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
10057 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
10058 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
10059 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
10062 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10063 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
10064 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
10065 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10067 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
10068 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
10069 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
10071 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
10072 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10073 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
10074 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
10075 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10076 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
10077 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
10079 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
10080 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
10081 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
10082 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
10083 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
10084 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
10085 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
10088 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10089 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
10090 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10092 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10093 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
10094 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
10095 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
10096 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10097 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
10098 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
10099 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
10101 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
10102 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
10103 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10105 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10106 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
10107 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
10108 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
10110 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
10111 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
10112 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
10113 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10115 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
10116 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10117 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10118 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10119 Patch by "junglefowl".
10121 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
10122 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
10123 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
10127 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
10128 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
10129 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
10130 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
10131 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
10132 version should upgrade.
10134 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
10135 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
10136 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
10137 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
10138 the set of fallback directories, and more.
10140 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
10141 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10142 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
10143 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
10144 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
10145 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
10148 o Major features (security):
10149 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10150 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10151 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10152 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10153 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10154 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10156 o Major features (directory authority, security):
10157 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
10158 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
10159 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
10161 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
10162 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
10163 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
10164 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
10165 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
10168 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
10169 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10170 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10171 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10172 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10173 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10174 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10175 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10176 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10177 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10178 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10180 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
10181 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10182 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10184 o Minor features (controller):
10185 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
10186 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
10188 o Minor features (entry guards):
10189 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
10190 break regression tests.
10191 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
10192 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
10194 o Minor features (fallback directories):
10195 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
10197 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
10198 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
10199 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
10200 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
10201 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
10202 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
10203 Closes ticket 20539.
10204 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
10206 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
10207 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
10208 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
10209 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
10210 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
10212 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
10213 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
10214 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
10215 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
10216 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
10217 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
10218 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
10219 Closes ticket 20822.
10220 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
10221 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
10223 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
10224 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10227 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
10228 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
10229 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
10230 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
10232 o Minor features (linting):
10233 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
10234 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
10236 o Minor features (logging):
10237 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
10238 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
10240 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
10241 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
10242 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
10243 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
10244 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
10245 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
10247 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
10248 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
10249 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
10250 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
10252 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10253 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
10254 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
10257 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
10258 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
10259 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
10260 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10262 o Minor bugfixes (config):
10263 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
10264 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
10265 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
10266 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10268 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10269 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
10270 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
10273 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
10274 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
10275 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
10276 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
10277 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10279 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10280 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
10281 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
10283 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10284 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
10285 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10286 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
10287 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
10288 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
10289 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10290 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
10291 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10293 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
10294 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
10295 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
10296 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10298 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10299 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
10300 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
10301 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10302 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
10303 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10305 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10306 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
10307 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10308 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
10309 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
10310 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
10311 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
10312 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
10314 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10315 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
10316 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10318 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
10319 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10320 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10321 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10323 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10324 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10326 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10327 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
10328 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
10329 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
10330 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
10332 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10333 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
10334 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10336 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10337 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
10338 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
10339 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
10340 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10342 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10343 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
10344 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
10346 o Documentation (formatting):
10347 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
10348 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
10350 o Documentation (man page):
10351 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
10352 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
10355 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
10356 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
10357 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
10358 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
10359 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
10360 version should upgrade.
10362 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
10363 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
10365 o Major bugfixes (security):
10366 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10367 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
10368 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
10369 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
10370 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
10371 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10373 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
10374 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10375 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10376 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10377 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10378 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10379 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10380 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10381 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10382 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10383 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10385 o Minor features (geoip):
10386 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10389 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10390 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10391 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10392 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10394 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10395 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10398 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
10399 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
10400 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
10401 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
10402 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
10403 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
10404 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
10405 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
10407 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
10409 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
10410 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
10411 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
10412 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
10413 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
10416 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
10417 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
10418 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
10419 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
10420 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
10421 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
10422 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
10423 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
10426 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
10427 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
10428 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
10429 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
10430 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
10432 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
10433 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
10434 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
10435 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
10436 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
10437 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
10438 15056; part of proposal 220.
10439 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
10440 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
10441 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
10442 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
10443 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
10445 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10446 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
10447 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
10448 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
10449 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10451 o Minor features (controller):
10452 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
10453 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
10456 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
10457 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
10458 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
10461 o Minor features (directory authority):
10462 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
10463 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
10464 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
10465 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
10466 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
10468 o Minor features (directory cache):
10469 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
10470 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
10473 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
10474 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
10475 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
10476 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
10478 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
10479 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
10480 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
10481 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
10483 o Minor features (infrastructure):
10484 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
10485 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
10487 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10488 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
10489 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
10490 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
10492 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10493 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
10494 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10495 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
10496 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
10497 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10499 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
10500 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
10501 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
10502 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
10503 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
10505 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
10506 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
10507 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
10508 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
10509 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10511 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
10512 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
10513 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
10514 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
10515 on all recent tor versions.
10516 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
10517 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
10518 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
10519 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10521 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
10522 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
10523 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10525 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10526 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
10527 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
10528 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
10531 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
10532 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
10533 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
10536 o Minor bugfixes (util):
10537 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
10538 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
10539 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
10540 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
10542 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
10543 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
10544 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
10545 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
10547 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10548 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
10549 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
10550 Closes ticket 19858.
10551 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
10552 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
10553 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
10554 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
10555 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
10556 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
10557 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
10558 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
10559 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10560 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
10561 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
10562 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
10563 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
10564 redundant with the similar structures used in the
10565 channel abstraction.
10566 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
10567 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
10568 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
10569 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10570 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
10571 replaced with code automatically generated by the
10575 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
10576 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10577 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
10578 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
10580 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
10581 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
10583 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
10584 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
10585 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
10586 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
10587 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
10590 o Removed features:
10591 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
10592 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
10593 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
10595 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
10596 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
10597 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
10600 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
10601 from "overcaffeinated".
10602 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
10603 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
10604 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
10605 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
10606 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
10610 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
10611 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
10612 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10613 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10614 become available for their systems.
10616 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
10619 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
10620 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
10622 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10623 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10624 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10625 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10626 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10627 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10628 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10629 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10630 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10632 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10633 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
10634 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
10635 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
10636 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
10638 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
10639 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10643 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
10644 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
10646 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
10647 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
10648 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
10649 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
10650 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
10651 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
10652 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
10653 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
10655 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
10657 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
10658 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10659 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10660 become available for their systems.
10662 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
10663 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10665 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
10666 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10667 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10668 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10669 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10670 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10671 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10672 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10673 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10675 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10676 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
10677 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
10678 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
10679 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
10682 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
10683 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
10684 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
10687 o Minor features (geoip):
10688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10691 o Minor bugfix (build):
10692 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
10693 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
10694 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10696 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10697 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
10698 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
10699 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
10702 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
10703 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
10705 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10706 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
10707 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
10710 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10711 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
10712 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10713 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
10714 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
10715 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10717 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10718 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
10719 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
10720 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10722 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10723 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
10724 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10726 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10727 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
10728 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
10729 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
10730 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
10731 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
10732 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10733 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
10734 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
10735 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10738 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
10739 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
10740 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
10741 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
10744 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10745 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
10746 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
10747 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
10748 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
10749 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
10752 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10753 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
10754 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
10757 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
10758 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
10759 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
10760 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
10762 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10763 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
10764 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
10765 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10768 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10769 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
10770 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
10771 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10774 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
10775 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
10776 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
10779 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10780 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
10781 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10784 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
10785 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10787 o Minor features (geoip):
10788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10791 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
10792 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
10793 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
10794 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
10795 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
10797 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
10798 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
10799 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
10800 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
10801 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
10802 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10804 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
10805 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
10806 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10808 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10809 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
10810 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
10811 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
10812 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
10813 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
10815 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10816 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
10817 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
10819 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
10820 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
10822 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10823 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
10824 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
10825 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
10826 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
10827 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
10829 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10830 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
10831 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
10835 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
10836 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
10839 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
10840 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
10841 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
10842 everyone to test this release.
10844 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
10845 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
10846 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
10847 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10850 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
10851 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
10852 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
10853 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
10856 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
10857 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
10858 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
10859 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
10860 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10861 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
10862 download, stop waiting for certificates.
10863 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
10864 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
10865 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
10867 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
10868 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
10869 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
10870 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10871 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
10872 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10873 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
10874 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
10875 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10876 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
10877 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
10878 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
10880 o Minor features (geoip):
10881 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10884 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
10885 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
10886 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
10887 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
10888 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
10889 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10891 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
10892 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
10893 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
10894 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10895 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
10896 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10898 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10899 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
10900 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
10901 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
10904 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10905 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
10906 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
10907 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
10908 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
10909 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10910 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
10911 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10913 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
10914 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
10915 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10917 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10918 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
10919 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
10920 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
10921 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10922 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
10923 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
10924 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10926 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
10927 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
10928 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
10931 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10932 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
10933 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10936 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
10937 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10938 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
10939 tickets 19287 and 19290.
10942 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
10943 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
10944 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
10945 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
10946 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
10949 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
10950 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10951 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10952 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10953 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10954 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10955 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10956 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10957 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10959 o Minor features (geoip):
10960 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10964 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
10965 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
10966 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
10967 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10968 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
10971 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
10972 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
10973 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
10974 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
10975 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
10976 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
10977 be a release candidate.
10979 o Major features (security fixes):
10980 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
10981 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
10982 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
10983 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
10984 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
10985 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
10986 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
10987 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
10989 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
10990 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
10991 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
10992 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
10993 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
10994 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
10995 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
10996 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
10997 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
10998 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
10999 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
11000 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
11001 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
11002 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
11005 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11006 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
11007 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11009 o Minor features (client, directory):
11010 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
11011 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
11012 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
11015 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
11016 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
11019 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
11020 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
11021 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
11024 o Minor features (geoip):
11025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11028 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11029 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
11030 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
11031 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
11032 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
11034 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
11035 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
11036 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
11037 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
11040 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
11041 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
11042 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
11043 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
11044 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
11046 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
11047 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
11048 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
11051 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
11052 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
11053 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
11054 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
11056 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11057 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
11058 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
11059 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
11061 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
11062 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
11063 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
11064 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
11067 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11068 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
11069 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
11073 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
11074 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
11076 o Required libraries:
11077 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
11078 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
11079 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
11082 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
11083 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
11084 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
11085 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
11086 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
11087 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
11088 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
11089 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
11091 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
11092 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
11093 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
11094 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
11095 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
11096 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11098 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
11099 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
11100 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
11101 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
11102 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
11105 o Major features (circuit building, security):
11106 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
11107 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
11108 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
11110 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
11111 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
11113 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
11114 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
11115 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
11116 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
11117 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
11118 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
11119 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
11120 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
11121 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
11122 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
11123 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
11125 o Major features (resource management):
11126 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
11127 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
11128 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
11129 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
11130 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
11131 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
11133 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
11134 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
11135 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
11136 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
11138 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
11139 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
11140 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
11141 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11143 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11144 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
11145 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
11146 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
11147 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
11148 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11150 o Minor features (security, TLS):
11151 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
11152 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
11153 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
11154 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
11156 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11157 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
11158 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
11159 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11161 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
11162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11165 o Minor feature (port flags):
11166 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
11167 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
11168 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
11169 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
11170 18693; patch by "teor".
11172 o Minor features (directory authority):
11173 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
11174 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
11175 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
11177 o Minor features (testing):
11178 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
11179 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
11180 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
11181 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
11183 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
11184 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
11185 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
11186 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
11187 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
11188 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
11189 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
11190 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
11191 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
11193 o Minor features (Tor2web):
11194 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
11195 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
11196 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
11198 o Minor features (unit tests):
11199 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
11200 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
11201 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
11202 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
11203 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
11204 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
11205 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
11206 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
11208 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
11209 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
11210 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
11211 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
11212 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
11213 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
11214 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
11215 assertion as a test failure.
11217 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
11218 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
11219 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
11220 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
11221 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
11222 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
11224 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
11225 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
11226 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
11227 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
11228 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
11229 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
11230 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
11231 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
11232 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
11233 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
11234 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11235 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11236 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
11237 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
11238 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
11239 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11241 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11242 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
11243 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
11244 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
11245 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11246 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
11247 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
11250 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11251 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
11252 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
11253 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
11254 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
11255 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
11256 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
11259 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11260 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
11261 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
11262 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11264 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
11265 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
11266 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
11268 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11269 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
11270 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
11271 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
11272 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
11273 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11276 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
11277 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
11278 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
11280 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
11281 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
11282 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
11284 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
11285 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
11286 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
11287 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
11288 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
11289 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
11291 o Minor bugfixes (options):
11292 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
11293 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
11295 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
11296 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
11297 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11300 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
11301 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
11302 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
11303 19678. Patch by teor.
11305 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11306 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
11307 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
11308 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
11309 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
11310 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
11312 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
11313 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
11317 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
11318 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
11319 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
11320 who select public relays as their bridges.
11322 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11323 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
11324 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
11325 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
11326 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
11327 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11329 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
11330 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
11331 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
11332 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
11333 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
11336 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11337 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
11338 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
11339 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11341 o Minor features (geoip):
11342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11346 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
11347 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
11348 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
11349 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
11350 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
11351 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11353 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
11354 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11355 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11357 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
11358 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
11359 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
11360 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
11361 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
11362 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11364 o Major features (user interface):
11365 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
11366 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
11367 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
11369 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
11370 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
11371 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
11372 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11374 o Minor features (config):
11375 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
11376 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
11378 o Minor features (geoip):
11379 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11382 o Minor features (user interface):
11383 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
11384 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
11387 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11388 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
11389 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
11391 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11392 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
11393 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
11395 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
11396 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
11397 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
11398 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11400 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
11401 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
11402 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
11405 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
11406 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
11407 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
11408 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
11410 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11411 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
11412 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11414 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
11415 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
11416 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11418 o Deprecated features:
11419 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
11420 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
11421 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
11422 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
11423 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
11424 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
11425 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
11426 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
11427 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11428 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
11429 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11430 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11431 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
11432 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
11433 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
11434 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
11435 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
11436 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
11437 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
11438 and TransListenAddress.
11441 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
11442 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
11445 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
11446 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
11449 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
11450 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
11451 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
11452 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
11453 encouraged to upgrade.
11455 o Directory authority changes:
11456 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11457 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11459 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
11460 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
11461 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
11462 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
11463 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
11464 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11466 o Minor features (geoip):
11467 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11471 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
11472 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
11475 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11476 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
11477 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
11478 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
11481 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
11482 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
11483 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
11484 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
11485 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
11486 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
11487 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
11488 security, correctness, and performance.
11490 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
11492 o New system requirements:
11493 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
11494 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
11495 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
11496 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
11497 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
11498 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
11499 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
11500 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
11502 o Major features (build, hardening):
11503 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
11504 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
11505 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
11506 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
11507 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
11508 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
11509 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
11510 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
11511 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
11513 o Major features (compilation):
11514 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
11515 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
11516 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
11517 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
11519 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
11520 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
11521 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
11523 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
11524 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
11525 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
11526 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
11527 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
11528 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
11529 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
11530 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
11532 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
11533 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
11534 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
11535 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
11536 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
11537 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
11538 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
11540 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
11541 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
11542 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
11543 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
11544 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
11545 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
11546 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11548 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
11549 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
11550 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
11551 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
11552 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
11554 o Minor features (build, hardening):
11555 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
11556 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
11557 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
11558 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
11559 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
11560 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
11561 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
11562 Closes ticket 18895.
11564 o Minor features (code safety):
11565 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
11566 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
11569 o Minor features (controller):
11570 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
11571 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
11572 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
11573 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
11574 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
11575 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
11576 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
11577 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
11579 o Minor features (directory authority):
11580 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
11581 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
11582 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
11583 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
11584 Implements ticket 18624.
11585 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
11586 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
11587 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
11590 o Minor features (hidden service):
11591 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
11592 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
11593 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
11596 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
11597 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
11598 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
11599 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
11600 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
11601 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
11602 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
11603 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
11604 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
11605 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
11606 Closes ticket 18365.
11608 o Minor features (logging):
11609 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
11610 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11611 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
11612 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
11613 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
11614 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
11615 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
11616 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
11617 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
11618 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
11620 o Minor features (performance):
11621 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
11622 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
11623 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
11624 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
11625 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
11626 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
11627 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
11629 o Minor features (relay, usability):
11630 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
11631 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
11632 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
11633 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
11636 o Minor features (testing):
11637 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
11638 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11639 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
11640 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
11641 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
11642 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
11643 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
11644 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
11647 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11648 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
11649 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
11650 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
11651 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11653 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11654 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
11655 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
11656 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
11657 patch from "cypherpunks".
11659 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
11660 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
11661 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11663 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11664 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
11665 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
11666 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11668 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11669 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
11670 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
11671 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11672 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
11673 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
11674 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
11675 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11677 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11678 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
11679 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11680 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
11681 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
11682 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
11683 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
11685 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
11686 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
11687 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
11690 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
11691 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
11692 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
11694 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
11695 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
11696 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
11699 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
11700 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
11701 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
11702 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
11705 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11706 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
11707 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
11709 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11710 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
11711 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
11714 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11715 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
11716 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11717 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
11718 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
11719 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
11720 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11721 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
11722 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
11725 o Minor bugfixes (time):
11726 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
11727 bugfix on all released tor versions.
11728 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
11729 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
11730 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
11731 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11733 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
11734 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
11735 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
11736 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
11737 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
11739 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
11740 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11742 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11743 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
11745 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
11746 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11747 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
11748 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
11751 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
11752 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
11754 o Removed features:
11755 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
11756 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
11757 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
11758 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
11759 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
11760 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
11761 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
11764 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
11765 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
11766 command-line options to enable them.
11767 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
11768 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
11771 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
11773 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
11775 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
11776 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
11777 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
11778 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
11779 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
11780 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11782 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
11784 o Minor features (geoip):
11785 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11788 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11789 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
11790 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11792 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11793 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
11794 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
11795 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
11797 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11798 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
11799 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
11800 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
11801 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11802 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
11803 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
11804 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11807 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
11808 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
11809 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
11810 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
11811 against previous versions.
11813 o Directory authority changes:
11814 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
11816 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
11817 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
11818 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
11819 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
11821 o Minor features (build):
11822 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11823 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
11824 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
11825 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11826 Patch from intrigeri.
11828 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
11829 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
11830 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
11833 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
11834 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
11835 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
11836 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
11837 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
11840 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11841 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
11842 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
11843 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11844 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
11845 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
11846 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11848 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
11849 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
11850 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
11851 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
11853 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
11854 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
11855 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
11856 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
11857 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
11858 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11860 o Fallback directory list:
11861 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
11862 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
11863 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
11864 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
11865 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
11866 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
11867 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
11868 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
11869 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
11872 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
11873 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
11874 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
11875 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
11878 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
11879 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
11880 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
11881 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11883 o Minor features (build):
11884 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
11885 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
11887 o Minor features (geoip):
11888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11891 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11892 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
11893 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11895 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
11896 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
11897 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
11898 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
11902 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
11903 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
11904 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
11905 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
11906 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
11909 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
11910 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
11911 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
11912 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
11913 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11915 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
11916 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
11917 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
11918 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
11919 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
11920 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
11922 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
11923 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
11924 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
11925 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11927 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
11928 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
11929 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
11930 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
11931 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
11932 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
11933 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
11935 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
11936 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
11938 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
11939 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
11940 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
11942 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
11943 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
11944 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
11945 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
11946 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
11947 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11950 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
11951 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
11952 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
11955 o Major bugfixes (key management):
11956 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
11957 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
11958 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
11959 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
11960 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
11961 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
11964 o Major bugfixes (testing):
11965 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
11966 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11967 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
11968 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11970 o Minor features (clients):
11971 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
11972 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
11973 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
11975 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11976 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
11977 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
11978 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
11979 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
11980 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
11981 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
11982 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
11983 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
11984 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
11986 o Minor features (geoip):
11987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11990 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
11991 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
11992 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
11995 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11996 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
11997 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
11999 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12000 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
12001 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
12003 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
12004 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
12006 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
12007 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
12010 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12011 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
12012 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
12013 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
12014 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12015 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
12016 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
12017 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12019 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
12020 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
12021 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
12022 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
12023 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12025 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
12026 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
12027 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
12028 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12029 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
12030 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
12033 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
12034 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
12035 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
12036 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
12037 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
12038 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12040 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12041 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
12042 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
12043 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12044 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
12045 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12046 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
12047 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12049 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12050 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
12051 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
12052 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12054 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
12055 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
12056 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
12057 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
12058 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
12059 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
12062 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12063 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
12064 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
12066 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
12067 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
12068 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12070 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12071 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
12072 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
12074 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12075 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
12076 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
12077 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12078 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
12079 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
12080 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12082 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
12083 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
12084 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
12085 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12088 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
12089 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
12090 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
12091 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
12094 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
12095 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
12096 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
12097 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
12098 directory support should also be much improved.
12100 o New system requirements:
12101 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
12102 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
12103 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
12104 longer runs with, these versions.
12105 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
12106 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
12107 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
12109 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
12110 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
12111 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
12112 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
12113 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
12115 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
12116 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12117 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12118 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12119 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12121 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
12122 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
12123 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
12124 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
12125 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
12127 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12128 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
12129 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
12130 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12132 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
12133 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
12134 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12135 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
12136 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12138 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
12139 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
12140 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
12141 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
12142 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
12143 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12146 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
12147 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12148 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12150 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
12151 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
12152 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
12153 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
12156 o Major bugfixes (voting):
12157 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
12158 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
12159 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
12160 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
12162 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
12163 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
12164 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
12165 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12166 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
12167 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
12168 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
12169 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
12170 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
12171 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12173 o Minor features (security, win32):
12174 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
12175 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
12178 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
12179 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12180 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12181 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12183 o Minor features (build):
12184 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
12185 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
12186 Steven Chamberlain.
12188 o Minor features (code hardening):
12189 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
12190 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
12191 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
12194 o Minor features (crypto):
12195 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
12196 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
12199 o Minor features (geoip):
12200 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12203 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
12204 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
12205 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
12206 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
12207 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
12209 o Minor features (IPv6):
12210 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
12211 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
12212 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
12213 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
12214 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
12215 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
12216 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
12218 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12219 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
12220 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
12221 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
12222 while fixing 18548.
12224 o Minor features (robustness):
12225 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
12226 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
12227 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
12229 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
12230 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
12231 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
12232 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
12233 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
12234 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
12235 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
12238 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
12239 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
12240 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
12241 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
12242 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
12244 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
12245 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
12246 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
12247 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
12249 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12250 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
12251 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
12253 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
12254 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
12255 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12256 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
12257 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
12258 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
12260 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
12261 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
12262 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
12263 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
12264 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12266 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12267 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
12268 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
12269 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
12272 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12273 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
12274 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12276 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
12277 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
12278 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
12279 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12281 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12282 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
12283 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
12284 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
12285 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
12286 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12288 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12289 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
12290 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
12291 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
12293 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
12294 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
12295 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
12296 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
12297 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
12299 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
12300 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
12301 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
12302 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
12303 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
12304 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
12305 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
12306 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
12307 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
12310 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
12311 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
12312 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
12313 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12315 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
12316 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
12317 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
12319 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12320 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
12321 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
12322 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12323 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
12324 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
12325 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12326 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
12327 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12329 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12330 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
12331 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
12332 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12333 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
12334 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
12335 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
12336 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
12337 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
12338 Christian, patch by teor.
12340 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
12341 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
12342 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
12343 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
12345 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
12346 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
12347 patch by "cypherpunks".
12348 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
12350 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
12351 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12353 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
12354 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
12355 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
12356 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
12358 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
12359 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
12360 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
12363 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12364 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
12365 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
12366 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
12367 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
12368 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12370 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
12371 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
12372 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
12373 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
12375 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
12376 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
12377 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
12378 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
12380 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12381 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
12382 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
12383 17744. Patch from zerosion.
12384 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
12385 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
12386 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
12387 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
12388 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
12391 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
12392 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
12393 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
12395 o Removed features:
12396 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
12397 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
12398 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
12401 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
12403 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
12404 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
12407 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
12408 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
12409 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
12410 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
12411 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
12413 o Major features (security, Linux):
12414 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
12415 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
12416 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
12417 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
12418 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
12420 o Major features (directory system):
12421 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
12422 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
12423 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
12424 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
12425 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
12426 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
12427 "mikeperry" and "teor".
12428 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
12429 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
12430 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
12431 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
12432 15775. Patch by "teor".
12433 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
12434 "gsathya", and "karsten".
12435 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
12436 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
12437 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
12438 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
12439 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
12442 o Major key updates:
12443 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12444 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12447 o Minor features (security, clock):
12448 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
12449 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
12450 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
12451 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
12453 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
12454 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
12455 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
12456 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
12457 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
12458 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12460 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
12461 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
12462 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
12463 Implements ticket 17026.
12464 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
12465 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
12466 Implements feature 17986.
12467 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
12468 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
12469 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
12470 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12471 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12472 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12475 o Minor features (security, RNG):
12476 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
12477 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
12478 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
12479 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
12480 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
12481 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
12482 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
12483 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
12484 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
12485 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
12488 o Minor features (accounting):
12489 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
12490 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
12491 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
12492 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
12494 o Minor features (build):
12495 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
12496 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
12497 patch from "cypherpunks."
12498 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
12499 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
12500 17549, 17921, and 17984.
12502 o Minor features (controller):
12503 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
12504 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
12505 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
12506 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
12507 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
12508 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
12509 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
12510 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
12513 o Minor features (crypto):
12514 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
12516 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
12517 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
12518 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
12519 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
12520 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
12521 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
12522 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
12523 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12525 o Minor features (directory downloads):
12526 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
12527 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
12528 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
12529 17864; patch by "teor".
12530 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
12531 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
12532 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
12534 o Minor features (geoip):
12535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12538 o Minor features (IPv6):
12539 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
12540 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
12541 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
12542 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
12543 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
12544 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
12545 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
12546 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
12547 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
12548 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
12549 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
12551 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
12552 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12553 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
12554 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
12556 o Minor features (logging):
12557 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
12558 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
12559 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
12560 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
12563 o Minor features (portability):
12564 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
12565 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
12567 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
12568 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
12569 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
12570 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
12571 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
12573 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
12574 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
12575 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
12576 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
12577 Resolves ticket 17951.
12579 o Minor features (replay cache):
12580 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
12581 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
12583 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
12584 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
12585 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
12586 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
12587 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12588 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
12589 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
12590 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
12591 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
12592 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
12593 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12594 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
12595 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
12596 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12598 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
12599 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
12600 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
12601 from "unixninja92".
12603 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12604 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
12605 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
12606 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12607 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
12608 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
12610 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
12613 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12614 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
12615 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
12616 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12617 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
12618 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
12619 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12620 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
12622 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
12623 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
12624 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
12625 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
12626 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
12627 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
12628 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12629 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
12631 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
12632 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12634 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
12635 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
12636 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12638 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12639 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
12640 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
12641 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12643 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12644 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
12645 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12647 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12648 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
12649 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12651 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12652 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
12653 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
12654 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
12655 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
12657 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
12658 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12660 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12661 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
12662 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
12665 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12666 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
12667 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
12668 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
12669 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
12670 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
12672 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
12673 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
12674 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
12675 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
12676 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
12678 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
12679 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
12680 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
12683 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
12684 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
12685 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
12686 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12687 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
12688 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
12689 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
12690 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
12693 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12694 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
12695 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
12696 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
12697 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
12698 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12699 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
12700 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
12701 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
12702 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
12704 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
12705 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12707 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12708 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
12709 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
12710 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
12711 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
12712 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
12713 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
12714 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
12715 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
12716 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
12718 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
12719 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
12720 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
12721 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
12723 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
12724 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
12725 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
12726 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
12727 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
12729 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
12730 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
12733 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
12734 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
12735 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
12736 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
12737 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
12738 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
12739 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
12742 o Removed features:
12743 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
12744 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
12745 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
12746 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
12747 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
12750 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
12751 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
12752 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
12753 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
12754 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12755 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
12756 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
12757 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
12758 portion of ticket 16831.
12759 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
12760 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
12761 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
12763 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
12764 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
12767 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
12768 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
12769 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
12771 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12772 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12773 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12774 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12775 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12776 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12779 o Minor features (geoip):
12780 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12783 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12784 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
12785 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
12786 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
12787 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12788 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12790 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12791 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
12792 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
12793 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
12794 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
12795 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
12796 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
12797 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12798 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
12799 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12802 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
12803 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
12804 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
12805 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
12806 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
12807 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
12808 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
12809 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
12810 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
12811 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
12812 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
12813 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
12814 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
12815 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
12816 that would make him proud.
12818 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
12820 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
12821 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
12822 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
12823 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
12824 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
12825 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
12826 of Tor invoke which others.
12828 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
12831 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
12832 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
12833 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
12834 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
12835 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
12836 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
12837 release will the the official stable release.
12839 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
12840 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12841 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12842 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12843 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12846 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
12847 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
12848 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12850 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
12851 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
12852 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12853 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
12854 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12855 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
12856 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
12858 o Minor features (geoIP):
12859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12862 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12863 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
12864 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
12865 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
12866 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12867 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
12868 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
12870 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12871 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
12872 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
12875 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
12876 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
12877 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
12878 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
12880 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12881 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
12882 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
12883 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
12884 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
12885 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
12886 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
12887 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
12888 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
12889 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
12890 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
12894 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
12895 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
12899 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
12900 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
12901 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
12902 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
12903 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
12905 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
12906 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
12907 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
12908 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
12910 o Major features (security, hidden services):
12911 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
12912 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
12913 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
12914 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
12915 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
12916 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
12917 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
12919 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
12920 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
12921 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
12922 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
12923 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
12924 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
12927 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
12928 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
12929 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
12930 available. Implements ticket 16535.
12931 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
12932 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
12935 o Major features (performance testing):
12936 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
12937 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
12938 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
12940 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
12941 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
12942 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
12943 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
12945 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
12946 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
12947 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
12948 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
12949 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
12950 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
12952 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
12953 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
12955 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
12956 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
12957 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
12958 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
12959 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
12961 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
12962 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
12963 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
12964 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
12965 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
12966 own. Implements feature 15482.
12967 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
12968 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
12970 o Minor features (compilation):
12971 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
12972 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
12973 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
12974 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
12975 which started requiring ECC.
12977 o Minor features (geoip):
12978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
12981 o Minor features (hidden services):
12982 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
12983 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
12984 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
12985 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
12986 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
12987 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
12988 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
12989 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
12991 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
12992 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
12993 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
12996 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
12997 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
12998 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
12999 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
13001 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
13002 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
13003 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
13004 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
13005 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
13007 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
13008 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
13009 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
13010 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
13011 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13012 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
13013 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
13014 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
13015 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
13016 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
13017 Related to ticket 16069.
13018 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
13019 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
13020 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
13021 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
13022 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
13023 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13025 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
13026 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
13027 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13028 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
13029 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
13031 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
13032 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
13033 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13035 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
13036 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
13037 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
13038 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13040 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13041 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
13042 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
13043 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
13044 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13046 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13047 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
13048 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
13049 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
13050 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13051 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
13052 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
13053 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
13054 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
13055 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
13056 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
13059 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
13060 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
13061 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13063 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13064 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
13065 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13066 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
13067 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13069 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
13070 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
13071 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
13072 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
13074 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13075 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
13076 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
13078 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
13079 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13080 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
13081 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
13082 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
13083 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13084 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
13085 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13087 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13088 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
13089 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
13090 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
13091 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
13093 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
13094 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
13097 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13098 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
13099 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
13100 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
13101 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
13102 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
13103 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
13104 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
13105 function. Closes ticket 16763.
13106 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
13107 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
13108 suite of other microdesc functions.
13109 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
13110 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
13111 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
13112 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
13113 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
13114 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
13115 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
13116 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
13117 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
13118 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
13120 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
13121 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
13123 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
13126 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
13127 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
13128 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
13129 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
13133 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
13134 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
13135 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
13136 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
13137 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
13138 Closes ticket 13338.
13139 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
13140 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
13141 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
13142 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
13143 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
13144 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
13147 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
13148 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
13149 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
13150 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
13151 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
13152 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
13153 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
13155 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
13156 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
13157 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
13158 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
13159 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
13160 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
13161 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
13162 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
13163 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
13164 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
13165 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
13166 network before we begin.
13167 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
13168 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
13169 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
13170 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
13171 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
13172 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
13173 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
13174 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
13177 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
13178 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
13179 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
13180 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
13181 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
13182 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
13184 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
13185 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
13186 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
13188 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
13189 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
13190 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
13191 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
13192 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
13193 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
13194 Implements part of ticket 12498.
13195 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
13196 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13197 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
13198 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
13199 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13200 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
13201 part of ticket 12498.
13202 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
13203 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
13204 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
13205 key). Closes ticket 13642.
13207 o Major features (Hidden services):
13208 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
13209 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
13210 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
13211 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
13212 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
13214 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
13215 introduction points, which used to change the number of
13216 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
13217 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
13219 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
13220 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
13221 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
13222 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
13223 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
13224 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
13226 o Major features (performance):
13227 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
13228 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
13229 Implements ticket 16467.
13230 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
13231 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
13232 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
13233 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
13235 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
13236 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13237 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
13238 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
13239 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
13240 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
13242 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13243 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13244 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13245 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13246 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13247 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13248 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13249 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13252 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13253 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
13254 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
13255 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
13256 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
13257 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
13258 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
13261 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
13262 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
13263 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
13264 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
13265 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
13266 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
13268 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13269 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13270 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13271 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13272 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13273 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13274 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13275 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13278 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
13279 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13280 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13281 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13282 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
13283 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
13284 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13286 o Minor features (client):
13287 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
13288 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
13289 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
13291 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
13292 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
13293 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
13294 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13295 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
13296 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
13297 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
13300 o Minor features (control protocol):
13301 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
13302 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
13304 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13305 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
13306 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
13307 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
13308 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
13309 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
13311 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
13312 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13313 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13315 o Minor features (hidden services):
13316 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
13317 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
13318 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
13319 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
13322 o Minor features (portability):
13323 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
13324 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
13325 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
13327 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
13328 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13329 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13330 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13332 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13333 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
13334 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
13335 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13337 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
13338 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13339 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13340 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13341 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13342 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13344 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13345 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
13346 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
13347 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13348 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
13349 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
13350 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13352 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13353 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
13354 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13356 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
13357 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13358 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13359 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13361 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
13362 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
13363 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
13364 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
13366 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13367 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13370 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13371 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
13372 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13373 from "cypherpunks".
13375 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
13376 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
13377 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13378 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
13379 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
13380 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13382 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13383 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
13384 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13386 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
13387 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13388 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13390 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
13391 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
13392 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13393 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
13394 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13395 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
13396 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
13397 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
13398 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13400 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13401 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
13402 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
13403 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
13404 haven't supported that in ages.
13405 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
13406 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
13407 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
13408 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
13411 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
13412 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
13413 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
13414 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
13415 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
13416 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
13418 o Removed features:
13419 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
13420 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
13421 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
13422 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
13423 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
13424 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
13425 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
13426 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
13427 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
13428 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
13429 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
13430 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
13431 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
13432 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
13433 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
13434 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
13435 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
13438 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
13439 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
13440 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
13441 Closes ticket 15817.
13442 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
13443 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
13445 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
13446 default as a part of "make check".
13447 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
13448 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
13449 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
13450 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
13454 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
13455 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
13456 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
13457 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
13458 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
13459 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
13461 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
13462 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13463 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13464 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13465 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13466 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13467 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13468 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13471 o Major bugfixes (stability):
13472 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13473 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13474 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13475 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13476 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13477 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13478 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13481 o Minor features (geoip):
13482 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13483 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13485 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
13486 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13487 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13488 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13489 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13490 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13492 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13493 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13494 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13495 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13498 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
13499 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
13500 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
13501 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
13502 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
13504 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13505 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13506 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
13507 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
13508 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13511 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
13512 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13513 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13514 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13515 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
13516 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
13517 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13519 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13520 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13521 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13522 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13524 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13525 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
13526 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
13527 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
13528 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13529 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13532 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13533 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13534 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13537 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
13538 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
13539 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
13540 authorities should upgrade.
13542 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13543 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13544 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13545 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13548 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13549 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13550 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13553 o Minor features (geoip):
13554 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13555 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13559 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
13560 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
13561 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
13562 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
13563 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
13564 the hidden services subsystem.
13566 o New system requirements:
13567 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
13568 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
13571 o Major features (controller):
13572 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
13573 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
13575 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
13576 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
13577 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
13578 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
13579 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
13580 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
13581 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13583 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13584 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13585 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13586 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13589 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
13590 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
13591 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
13592 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
13593 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
13595 o Minor features (command-line interface):
13596 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
13597 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13598 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
13599 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
13601 o Minor features (controller):
13602 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
13603 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
13604 present. Implements ticket 14840.
13605 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
13606 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
13607 Closes ticket 14845.
13608 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
13609 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
13610 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
13612 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
13613 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13614 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13615 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13617 o Minor features (geoip):
13618 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13619 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13622 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
13623 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
13624 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
13625 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
13626 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
13627 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
13628 Closes ticket 15745.
13630 o Minor features (logging):
13631 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
13632 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
13635 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
13636 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
13637 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
13638 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
13640 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
13641 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
13642 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
13643 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
13644 Resolves ticket 15435.
13646 o Minor features (testing):
13647 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
13648 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
13649 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
13650 files. Closes ticket 15180.
13651 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
13652 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
13653 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
13654 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
13655 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
13656 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
13657 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
13658 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
13659 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
13660 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
13661 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
13662 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
13664 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13665 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
13666 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
13669 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
13670 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
13671 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
13673 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
13674 stderr, not stdout.
13676 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
13677 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
13678 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
13679 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
13680 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
13681 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
13682 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
13683 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13685 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13686 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
13687 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
13689 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
13690 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
13691 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
13694 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13695 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13696 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13698 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
13699 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13701 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
13702 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
13703 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
13704 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
13707 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
13708 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
13709 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
13710 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
13711 recent enough Clang.
13713 o Minor bugfixes (network):
13714 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
13715 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
13716 unsuitable for public communications.
13718 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13719 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
13720 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
13721 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
13722 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
13723 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
13725 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
13726 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
13727 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
13728 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
13729 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
13730 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
13731 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
13732 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
13734 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13735 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
13736 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
13738 - Set the severity correctly when testing
13739 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
13740 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
13741 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
13742 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
13744 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13745 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
13746 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
13748 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
13749 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
13750 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
13751 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
13752 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
13755 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
13756 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
13758 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
13759 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13760 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
13761 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
13762 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
13765 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
13766 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
13767 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
13768 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
13769 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
13770 Closes ticket 14922.
13772 o Removed features:
13773 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
13774 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
13775 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
13776 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
13777 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
13778 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
13779 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
13780 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
13781 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
13782 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
13783 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
13786 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
13787 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13788 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13789 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13790 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13792 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13793 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13795 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13796 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13797 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13798 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13799 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13800 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13801 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13803 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13804 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13805 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13806 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13807 Resolves ticket 15515.
13810 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
13811 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
13812 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
13813 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
13814 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13816 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
13817 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13819 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13820 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13821 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13822 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13823 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13824 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13825 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13827 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13828 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13829 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13830 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13831 Resolves ticket 15515.
13834 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
13835 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
13836 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
13837 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
13838 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
13840 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
13841 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
13843 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
13844 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
13845 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
13846 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
13847 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
13848 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
13849 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
13851 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
13852 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
13853 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
13854 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
13855 Resolves ticket 15515.
13856 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
13857 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
13858 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
13862 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
13863 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
13865 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
13866 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
13867 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
13868 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
13869 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
13870 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
13871 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
13872 bugs should be addressed.
13874 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13875 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
13876 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
13877 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13879 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
13880 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
13881 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
13883 o Major bugfixes (client):
13884 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
13885 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
13888 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
13889 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
13890 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
13891 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
13892 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
13893 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13895 o Major bugfixes (portability):
13896 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
13897 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
13900 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13901 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
13902 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
13903 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
13904 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
13906 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13907 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
13908 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
13911 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
13912 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
13914 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
13915 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
13916 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
13918 o Directory authority changes:
13919 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13920 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
13921 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
13922 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
13923 closes ticket 14487.
13925 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
13926 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
13927 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
13930 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
13931 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
13932 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
13933 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
13934 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
13935 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
13936 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
13937 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13939 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
13940 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
13941 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
13942 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
13944 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13945 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
13946 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
13947 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
13949 o Minor features (controller):
13950 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
13951 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
13952 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
13954 o Minor features (geoip):
13955 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13956 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13959 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
13960 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
13961 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
13962 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13963 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
13964 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13966 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13967 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
13968 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
13969 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
13971 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13972 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
13973 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
13974 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
13975 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13976 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
13977 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
13978 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13980 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13981 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
13982 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13984 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
13985 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
13986 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
13987 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
13988 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
13992 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
13993 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
13994 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
13997 o Directory authority changes:
13998 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
13999 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14000 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14001 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14002 closes ticket 14487.
14004 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
14005 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14006 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14007 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14009 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
14010 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14011 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
14012 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14013 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
14014 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14015 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14016 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14018 o Minor features (geoip):
14019 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14020 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14023 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
14024 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
14025 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
14026 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
14027 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
14029 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14030 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14031 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14034 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14035 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14036 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
14037 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14038 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14039 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14040 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14041 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14043 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
14044 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
14045 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
14048 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14049 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
14050 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
14052 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
14053 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14054 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14055 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14056 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14058 o Minor features (controller):
14059 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
14060 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
14061 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
14063 o Minor features (geoip):
14064 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14065 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14068 o Minor features (logs):
14069 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
14072 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14073 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
14074 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
14075 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14076 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
14077 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
14078 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
14079 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
14080 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
14082 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14083 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
14085 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
14088 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14089 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
14090 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
14092 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
14093 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
14094 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
14095 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14096 from "cypherpunks".
14097 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
14098 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
14101 o Directory authority IP change:
14102 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14103 closes ticket 14487.
14106 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
14107 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
14108 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
14112 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
14113 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
14114 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
14115 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
14116 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
14117 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
14119 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
14120 the next version will be a release candidate.
14122 o Deprecated versions:
14123 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
14124 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
14126 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
14127 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
14128 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
14129 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
14130 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
14131 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
14133 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
14134 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
14135 Implements ticket 11485.
14137 o Major features (changed defaults):
14138 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
14139 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
14140 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
14141 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
14142 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
14143 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
14145 o Major features (directory system):
14146 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
14147 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
14148 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
14149 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
14150 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
14151 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
14152 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
14153 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
14154 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
14155 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
14156 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
14157 227. Closes ticket 10395.
14159 o Major features (guards):
14160 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
14161 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
14162 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
14163 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
14164 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
14166 o Major features (performance):
14167 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
14168 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
14169 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
14170 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
14171 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
14172 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
14173 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
14174 Implements ticket 9682.
14176 o Major features (relay):
14177 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
14178 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
14179 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
14181 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14182 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14183 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14184 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14186 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
14187 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
14188 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
14189 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
14190 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
14191 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
14192 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
14194 o Minor features (build):
14195 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
14196 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
14197 Resolves ticket 13037.
14199 o Minor features (controller):
14200 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
14201 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
14203 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
14204 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
14205 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
14206 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14207 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
14208 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
14210 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
14211 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
14212 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
14213 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
14214 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
14215 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
14216 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
14217 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
14218 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
14219 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
14221 o Minor features (geoip):
14222 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
14223 GeoLite2 Country database.
14225 o Minor features (guard nodes):
14226 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
14227 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
14228 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
14230 o Minor features (hidden service):
14231 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
14232 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
14233 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
14234 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
14235 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
14236 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
14237 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
14238 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
14240 o Minor features (interface):
14241 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
14242 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
14243 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
14245 o Minor features (logging):
14246 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
14247 Resolves ticket 6852.
14248 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
14249 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
14250 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
14252 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
14253 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
14255 o Minor features (stability):
14256 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
14257 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
14260 o Minor features (systemd):
14261 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
14262 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
14264 o Minor features (testing networks):
14265 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
14266 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
14267 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
14268 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
14269 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
14270 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
14272 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
14273 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
14274 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
14275 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
14276 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
14278 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
14279 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
14280 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
14281 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
14282 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
14284 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
14285 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
14286 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
14287 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14288 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
14289 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
14290 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
14291 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14293 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
14294 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
14295 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
14296 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14297 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
14298 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14299 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
14300 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
14302 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
14303 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
14304 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
14307 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
14308 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
14309 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
14310 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
14311 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14313 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
14314 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
14315 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
14316 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
14317 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14319 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14320 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
14321 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
14322 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
14323 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
14324 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
14325 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
14326 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
14327 Addresses ticket 14188.
14328 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
14329 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
14330 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
14331 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
14332 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
14333 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
14334 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
14335 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
14336 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14338 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14339 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
14340 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
14341 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
14342 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
14343 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14344 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
14345 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14347 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14348 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
14349 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
14350 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
14351 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
14352 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
14353 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
14354 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14355 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
14356 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14357 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
14358 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
14359 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14361 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
14362 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
14363 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
14364 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
14365 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
14366 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14367 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
14368 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
14369 state, and key files.
14370 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
14371 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
14374 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14375 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
14376 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
14377 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
14378 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14379 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
14380 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
14381 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14382 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
14383 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
14384 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14386 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14387 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
14388 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14389 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
14391 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
14392 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14394 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
14395 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
14396 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
14397 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
14398 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
14399 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14401 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
14402 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
14403 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
14404 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14405 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
14406 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
14407 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14408 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
14409 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
14410 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14412 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14413 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
14414 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
14416 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
14417 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
14419 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
14420 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
14421 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
14422 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
14423 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14425 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
14426 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
14427 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
14428 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
14431 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
14432 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
14433 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
14436 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14437 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
14438 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14440 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
14441 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
14442 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
14443 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
14444 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
14445 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
14446 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
14448 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
14449 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
14452 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
14453 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
14454 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
14456 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
14457 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
14458 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
14461 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14462 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
14463 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
14464 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
14465 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
14466 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
14467 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
14468 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
14469 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
14471 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
14472 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
14474 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
14478 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
14479 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
14480 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
14481 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14482 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
14483 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14485 o Downgraded warnings:
14486 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
14487 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
14489 o Removed features:
14490 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
14491 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
14492 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
14493 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
14494 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
14498 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
14499 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14500 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
14501 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
14502 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
14503 (existing behavior).
14504 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
14505 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
14506 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
14507 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
14508 Closes ticket 14107.
14509 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
14510 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14511 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
14512 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
14514 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
14515 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
14516 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14519 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
14520 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
14521 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
14522 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
14523 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
14524 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
14526 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
14527 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
14528 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
14529 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
14531 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
14532 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
14533 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
14534 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
14535 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
14536 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
14538 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
14539 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
14540 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
14541 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
14542 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
14543 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
14544 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
14547 o Major features (hidden services):
14548 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
14549 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
14550 Closes ticket 13667.
14551 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
14552 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
14553 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
14554 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
14555 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
14556 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
14557 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
14558 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
14559 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
14560 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
14561 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
14563 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
14564 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
14565 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
14566 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
14567 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
14568 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
14571 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14572 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
14573 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
14574 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
14575 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
14576 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
14578 o Directory authority changes:
14579 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14580 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14581 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14583 o Major removed features:
14584 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
14585 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
14586 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
14587 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
14589 o Minor features (client):
14590 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
14591 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
14592 Resolves ticket 13315.
14594 o Minor features (controller):
14595 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
14596 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
14599 o Minor features (geoip):
14600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14603 o Minor features (hidden services):
14604 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
14605 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
14606 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
14607 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
14608 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
14609 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
14611 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
14612 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
14613 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
14615 o Minor features (systemd):
14616 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
14617 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14618 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
14619 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14621 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
14622 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
14623 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
14624 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
14625 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
14628 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
14629 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
14630 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
14631 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
14632 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
14634 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
14635 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
14636 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
14639 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
14640 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
14641 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
14642 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
14643 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
14645 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
14646 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
14647 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14649 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14650 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
14651 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
14652 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
14653 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
14655 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
14656 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
14659 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14660 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
14661 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
14662 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
14663 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
14664 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
14665 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
14666 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
14667 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14668 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
14669 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
14670 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
14671 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
14672 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
14675 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14676 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
14677 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
14678 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
14679 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
14680 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
14682 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14683 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
14684 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
14685 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
14687 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
14688 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14690 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14691 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
14692 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
14693 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
14696 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
14697 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
14698 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
14699 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
14700 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
14701 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
14703 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
14704 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
14705 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
14706 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
14707 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14708 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
14709 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
14710 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
14711 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
14712 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
14713 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
14714 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
14715 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
14716 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
14717 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
14718 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
14719 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
14720 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
14721 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
14722 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14723 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
14724 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
14725 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
14726 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
14727 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
14728 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
14729 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
14730 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14731 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
14732 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
14733 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
14734 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
14736 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
14737 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
14738 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
14739 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
14740 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14742 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14743 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
14744 with a function instead.
14745 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
14746 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
14747 Closes ticket 13172.
14748 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
14749 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
14750 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
14751 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
14752 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
14753 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
14754 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
14755 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
14756 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
14757 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
14758 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
14759 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
14763 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
14764 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
14765 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
14766 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
14767 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
14768 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
14769 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
14770 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
14771 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
14772 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
14773 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
14774 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
14777 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
14778 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
14779 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
14780 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
14781 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
14782 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
14784 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
14788 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
14789 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
14790 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
14791 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
14792 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
14793 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
14794 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
14795 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
14796 of introducing infinite download loops.
14798 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
14799 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
14800 with 0.2.5.x for now.
14802 o New compiler and system requirements:
14803 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
14804 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
14805 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
14806 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
14808 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
14809 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
14810 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
14811 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
14812 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
14813 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
14814 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
14815 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
14816 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
14818 o Removed platform support:
14819 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
14820 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
14821 Closes ticket 11446.
14823 o Major features (bridges):
14824 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
14825 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
14826 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
14829 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
14830 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
14831 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
14832 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
14835 o Major features (directory system):
14836 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
14837 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
14838 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
14839 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
14841 o Major features (sample torrc):
14842 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
14843 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
14844 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
14845 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
14846 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
14847 generally useful "sample torrc".
14849 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14850 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
14851 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14853 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
14854 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
14855 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
14856 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
14857 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
14859 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
14860 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
14861 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
14862 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
14864 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
14865 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
14866 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
14867 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
14868 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
14869 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
14872 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
14873 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
14874 document. Implements feature 10427.
14876 o Minor features (client):
14877 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
14878 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
14879 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
14880 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
14882 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14883 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
14884 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
14885 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
14886 argument more than once.
14887 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
14888 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
14889 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
14890 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
14891 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
14892 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
14894 o Minor features (logging):
14895 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
14896 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
14897 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
14898 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
14899 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
14900 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
14901 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
14902 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
14903 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
14905 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
14906 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
14907 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
14908 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
14910 o Minor features (relay):
14911 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
14912 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
14913 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
14915 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
14916 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
14917 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
14918 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
14920 o Minor features (testing networks):
14921 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
14922 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
14923 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
14924 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
14925 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
14928 o Minor features (validation):
14929 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
14930 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
14931 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
14932 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
14933 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
14934 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
14935 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
14936 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
14938 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
14939 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
14940 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
14941 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14943 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
14944 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
14945 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
14946 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14948 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
14949 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
14950 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
14952 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
14953 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
14954 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
14956 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
14957 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14958 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
14959 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
14960 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14961 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
14962 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
14964 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14965 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
14966 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
14967 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
14968 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
14969 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14970 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
14971 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
14972 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
14974 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
14975 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
14976 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
14977 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
14978 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
14980 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
14981 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
14982 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
14984 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14985 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
14986 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
14987 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
14988 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
14990 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14991 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
14992 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
14993 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14994 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
14995 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
14996 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14997 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
14998 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
14999 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
15000 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
15003 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
15004 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
15005 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
15006 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
15007 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15009 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15010 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
15011 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15012 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
15013 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
15016 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
15017 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
15018 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15019 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
15020 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
15021 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15023 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15024 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
15025 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
15026 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15028 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
15029 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
15030 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
15031 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15033 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
15034 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
15035 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
15036 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
15039 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
15040 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
15041 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15044 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
15045 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15046 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
15047 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
15048 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
15051 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15052 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
15053 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
15055 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
15056 Resolves ticket 12205.
15057 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
15058 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
15059 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
15060 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
15062 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
15063 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
15064 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
15066 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
15067 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
15069 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
15070 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
15071 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
15072 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
15073 or_options_t structure.
15076 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
15077 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
15078 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
15079 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
15082 o Removed features:
15083 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
15084 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
15085 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
15086 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
15087 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
15088 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
15089 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
15090 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
15091 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
15093 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
15094 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
15096 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
15097 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
15098 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
15099 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
15100 anymore, and ignore it.
15103 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
15104 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
15105 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
15106 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15107 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
15108 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
15109 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
15110 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
15111 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
15112 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
15113 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
15114 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
15116 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
15117 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
15118 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
15120 o Distribution (systemd):
15121 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
15122 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
15123 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
15124 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
15125 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15127 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
15128 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
15130 o Removed features (directory authorities):
15131 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
15132 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
15133 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
15134 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
15135 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
15136 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
15137 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
15138 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
15139 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
15141 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
15142 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
15143 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
15144 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
15147 o Testing (test-network.sh):
15148 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
15149 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
15151 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
15153 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
15154 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
15155 Partially implements ticket 13161.
15158 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
15159 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15161 It adds several new security features, including improved
15162 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
15163 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
15164 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
15165 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
15166 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
15167 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
15168 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
15169 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
15170 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
15171 and features mentioned below.
15173 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
15174 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15176 o Deprecated versions:
15177 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15178 attention for some while.
15181 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
15182 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
15183 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
15184 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
15185 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
15186 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
15188 o Major security fixes:
15189 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15190 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15191 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15193 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
15194 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15195 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
15196 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15199 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
15200 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
15201 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
15202 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15204 o Compilation fixes:
15205 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
15206 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
15207 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
15209 o Downgraded warnings:
15210 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
15211 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
15214 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
15215 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
15216 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
15217 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
15218 (which does affect Tor).
15220 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15221 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15222 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15223 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15225 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15226 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15227 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
15228 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15231 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
15232 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
15233 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
15234 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
15235 the directory authorities.
15238 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
15239 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
15240 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
15241 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
15242 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
15243 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
15244 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
15245 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
15246 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
15247 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
15248 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
15249 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15251 o Directory authority changes:
15252 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15255 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
15256 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
15257 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
15258 the directory authorities.
15261 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
15262 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
15263 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
15264 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
15265 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
15266 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
15267 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
15268 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
15269 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
15270 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
15271 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
15272 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15274 o Directory authority changes:
15275 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15277 o Minor features (geoip):
15278 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15282 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
15283 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
15284 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
15285 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
15286 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
15288 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
15289 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
15290 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
15291 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
15292 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
15293 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
15294 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15295 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
15296 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
15297 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
15298 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
15299 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
15300 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
15301 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15302 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
15303 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
15305 o Major bugfixes (relay):
15306 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
15307 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15308 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15309 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
15310 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
15311 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
15312 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15314 o Minor features (bridge):
15315 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
15316 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
15318 o Minor features (geoip):
15319 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15322 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15323 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
15324 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
15325 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
15326 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
15327 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
15328 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15329 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
15330 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
15331 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
15332 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15333 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
15334 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
15335 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
15336 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
15338 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
15339 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
15340 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
15341 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
15342 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
15344 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15345 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
15346 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15347 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
15348 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
15351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15352 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
15353 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15354 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
15355 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15356 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
15357 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
15358 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15359 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
15360 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
15361 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
15364 o Distribution (systemd):
15365 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
15366 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
15367 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
15368 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
15369 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
15370 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
15371 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
15372 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
15373 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15377 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
15378 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
15380 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
15384 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
15385 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
15386 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
15387 us closer to a release candidate.
15389 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
15390 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
15391 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
15392 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
15393 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
15395 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
15396 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
15397 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
15398 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
15399 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
15400 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
15401 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
15402 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
15403 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
15407 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
15408 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
15409 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
15410 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
15411 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
15412 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
15413 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
15414 to build circuits".
15417 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
15418 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
15419 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
15420 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
15421 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
15422 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
15423 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
15424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15426 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
15428 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
15429 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
15430 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
15431 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
15432 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
15433 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
15434 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
15435 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
15436 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
15437 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15440 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
15441 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
15442 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
15443 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
15445 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
15446 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
15447 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
15450 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
15451 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
15452 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
15453 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
15456 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
15457 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
15458 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
15459 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
15460 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
15461 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
15462 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
15463 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
15464 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
15465 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
15468 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
15469 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
15470 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
15471 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
15472 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
15473 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
15474 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
15475 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
15479 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
15480 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
15481 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
15482 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
15483 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
15484 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
15485 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
15486 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
15487 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15488 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
15489 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
15490 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
15491 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
15494 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15498 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
15499 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
15500 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
15501 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
15502 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
15503 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
15506 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
15507 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
15508 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
15509 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
15510 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
15511 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
15512 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
15513 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
15514 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
15515 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
15516 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
15517 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
15518 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15520 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
15521 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
15522 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
15523 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
15526 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15527 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
15528 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
15530 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
15531 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
15532 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
15533 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
15534 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
15535 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
15536 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
15537 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
15538 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
15539 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
15540 router's identity is not forgeable.
15542 o Major bugfixes (relay):
15543 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
15544 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
15545 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
15546 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15547 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
15548 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
15549 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
15550 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
15551 bugfix on every version of Tor.
15553 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
15554 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
15555 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
15556 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
15559 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15560 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
15561 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
15562 help diagnose bug 7164.
15563 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
15564 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
15565 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
15566 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
15567 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
15569 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
15570 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
15571 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
15572 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
15573 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
15574 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
15575 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
15577 o Minor features (security, memory management):
15578 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
15579 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
15580 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
15581 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
15582 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
15583 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
15585 o Minor features (security):
15586 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
15587 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
15588 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
15589 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
15591 o Minor features (build):
15592 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
15593 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
15594 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
15596 o Minor features (other):
15597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15600 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
15601 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
15602 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
15603 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
15604 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15606 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15607 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
15608 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
15609 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
15610 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
15611 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
15612 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
15613 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
15614 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15615 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
15616 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
15617 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
15619 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15620 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
15621 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15622 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
15623 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
15624 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
15625 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
15626 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
15627 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
15628 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
15629 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15630 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
15631 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
15632 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
15633 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
15634 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
15635 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
15636 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
15639 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
15640 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
15641 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
15642 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
15643 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
15644 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
15645 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15647 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
15648 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
15649 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15650 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
15651 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15652 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
15653 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15654 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
15655 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
15657 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
15658 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
15660 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
15661 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
15663 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
15664 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
15665 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15666 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
15667 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
15668 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15669 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
15670 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
15671 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
15673 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
15674 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
15675 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
15676 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
15677 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
15678 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15679 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
15680 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
15681 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15682 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
15683 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
15684 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15685 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
15686 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
15687 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
15688 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
15689 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
15690 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15692 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15693 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
15694 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
15695 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
15696 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
15697 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15698 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
15699 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
15700 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
15703 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15704 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
15705 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
15706 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
15707 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15709 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15710 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
15711 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
15712 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
15714 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
15715 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
15716 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
15717 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15718 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
15719 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
15720 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
15721 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
15723 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
15724 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
15725 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
15726 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
15729 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
15730 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
15731 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
15732 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
15733 versions. Found by "skruffy".
15734 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
15735 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
15736 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
15739 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
15740 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
15741 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
15742 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
15745 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
15746 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
15747 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
15748 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
15750 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
15751 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
15752 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
15754 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
15755 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
15756 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15758 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15759 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
15760 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15761 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
15762 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
15766 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
15767 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
15768 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
15769 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
15772 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
15773 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
15774 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
15775 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
15777 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
15778 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
15780 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
15781 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
15782 caches don't get confused.
15785 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
15786 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
15787 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
15788 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
15789 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
15792 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
15793 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
15794 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
15795 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
15796 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
15797 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
15801 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
15802 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
15803 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
15804 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
15805 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
15806 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
15807 of RAM, and several others.
15809 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15810 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
15811 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
15812 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
15813 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
15815 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
15816 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
15817 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
15818 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
15821 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15822 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
15823 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
15824 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
15825 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
15826 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
15827 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15828 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
15829 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
15830 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
15831 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
15832 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
15833 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
15834 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
15835 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
15836 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
15837 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
15838 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
15839 Resolves ticket 11438.
15841 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
15842 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
15843 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
15844 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
15845 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
15846 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15848 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15849 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
15850 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
15852 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15853 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
15854 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15856 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15857 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
15858 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
15859 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15861 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15862 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
15863 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
15865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15866 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
15867 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
15870 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
15871 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
15872 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
15873 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
15876 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15877 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
15878 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
15879 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
15881 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15882 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
15883 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
15884 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
15886 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
15887 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
15888 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
15892 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
15893 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
15894 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
15895 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
15896 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
15897 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
15898 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
15899 the Linux sandbox code.
15901 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
15902 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
15903 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
15905 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
15906 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15908 o Major features (security):
15909 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
15910 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
15911 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
15912 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
15913 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
15914 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
15915 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
15916 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
15918 o Major features (relay performance):
15919 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
15920 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
15921 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
15922 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
15923 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
15924 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
15925 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
15926 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
15927 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
15928 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
15930 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
15931 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
15932 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
15933 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
15934 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
15935 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
15936 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
15938 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
15939 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
15941 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
15942 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
15943 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
15944 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
15945 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
15946 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
15947 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15948 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
15949 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
15950 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
15951 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
15952 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
15953 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
15954 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
15955 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
15956 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
15957 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
15958 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
15959 Resolves ticket 11438.
15961 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
15962 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
15963 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
15964 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15966 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
15967 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
15968 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
15969 10267; patch from "yurivict".
15970 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
15971 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
15972 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
15973 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
15974 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
15975 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
15977 o Minor features (security):
15978 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
15979 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
15980 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
15981 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
15984 o Minor features (log verbosity):
15985 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
15986 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
15987 Resolves ticket 5286.
15988 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
15989 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
15990 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
15991 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
15992 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
15993 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
15994 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
15995 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
15996 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
15998 o Minor features (relay):
15999 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
16000 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
16001 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
16003 o Minor features (controller):
16004 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
16005 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
16007 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
16008 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
16009 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
16011 o Minor features (bridge client):
16012 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
16013 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
16014 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
16016 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16017 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
16018 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
16019 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
16020 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
16021 still referenced by a live node_t object.
16023 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
16024 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
16025 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
16026 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
16028 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
16029 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
16030 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
16031 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
16034 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
16035 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
16036 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16038 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
16039 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
16040 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
16041 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16042 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
16043 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
16044 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16046 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
16047 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
16048 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
16049 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16050 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
16051 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
16052 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16053 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
16054 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
16055 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
16056 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16057 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
16058 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
16061 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
16062 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
16063 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
16064 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
16065 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
16067 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
16068 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
16069 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
16072 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16073 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
16074 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16076 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
16077 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
16078 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16080 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16081 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
16082 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
16083 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16085 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
16086 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
16087 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16088 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
16089 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
16091 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
16092 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
16093 early. Fixes bug 10081.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
16096 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
16097 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16098 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
16099 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16100 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
16101 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
16102 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
16104 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
16105 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
16106 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
16107 should never have affected anyone in practice.
16109 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16110 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
16111 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16113 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
16114 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
16115 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
16116 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
16117 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
16118 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
16119 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
16120 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
16121 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
16122 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16123 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
16124 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
16125 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
16126 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
16128 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
16129 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
16130 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
16131 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
16132 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
16133 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
16134 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
16135 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
16139 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
16140 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
16141 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
16142 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16143 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
16144 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16145 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
16146 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
16148 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
16150 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16151 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
16152 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
16153 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
16154 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
16157 o Deprecated versions:
16158 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
16159 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
16160 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
16161 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
16164 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
16165 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
16166 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
16167 Patch from Dana Koch.
16170 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
16171 Resolves ticket 11070.
16174 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
16175 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
16176 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
16177 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
16178 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
16181 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
16182 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
16184 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
16185 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
16186 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
16187 streams attached to each circuit.
16189 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
16190 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
16191 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
16192 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
16193 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
16194 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
16195 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
16196 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
16197 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
16198 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
16199 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
16200 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
16201 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
16203 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
16204 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
16205 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16207 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16208 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
16209 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
16210 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
16211 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
16212 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
16213 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
16214 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
16215 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
16217 o Minor features (other):
16218 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
16219 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
16220 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
16221 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
16222 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
16223 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
16224 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
16225 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
16226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16229 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
16230 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16231 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16232 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16233 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16234 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16235 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16236 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16238 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16239 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
16240 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
16241 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
16242 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16243 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
16244 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
16245 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
16247 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
16248 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
16249 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
16250 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
16251 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
16252 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16253 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
16254 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
16255 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16256 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
16257 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
16258 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16260 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
16261 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
16262 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16263 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
16264 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
16265 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
16266 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
16267 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
16268 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16269 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
16270 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
16271 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
16272 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
16273 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
16275 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
16276 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
16278 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
16279 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
16280 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
16281 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
16282 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
16283 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
16284 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16285 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
16286 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
16287 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
16288 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
16289 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16290 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
16291 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
16293 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16294 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
16295 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
16296 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16299 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
16300 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
16301 the rest of bug 10841.
16304 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
16305 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
16306 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
16307 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
16308 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
16309 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
16310 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
16311 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
16312 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
16313 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
16314 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
16315 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16316 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
16317 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
16318 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16320 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16321 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
16322 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
16324 o Test infrastructure:
16325 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
16326 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
16327 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
16328 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
16331 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
16332 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
16333 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
16334 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
16336 o Major features (client security):
16337 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16338 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16339 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16340 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16341 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16342 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16345 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16346 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16347 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16348 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16350 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16351 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16352 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
16353 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
16354 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
16357 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16358 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16360 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16361 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16362 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16363 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16364 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
16365 GeoLite2 Country database.
16368 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
16369 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
16370 bugfix on every released Tor.
16371 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16372 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16373 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16374 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16375 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16376 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16377 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16378 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16379 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16380 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16381 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16382 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16383 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16384 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16385 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16387 o Documentation fixes:
16388 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16389 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16392 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
16393 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
16394 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
16395 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
16396 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
16397 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
16398 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
16399 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
16401 o Major features (client security):
16402 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16403 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16404 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16405 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16406 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16407 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16408 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
16409 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
16410 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
16411 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
16412 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
16413 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
16415 o Major features (bridges):
16416 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
16417 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
16418 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
16419 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
16420 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
16421 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
16422 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
16423 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
16426 o Major features (other):
16427 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
16428 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
16429 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
16430 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
16431 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
16432 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
16433 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
16434 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
16435 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
16436 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
16437 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
16438 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
16441 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16442 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16443 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16444 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16445 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16446 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16447 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16449 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
16450 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
16451 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
16452 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
16453 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
16454 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
16455 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
16456 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
16457 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
16459 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
16460 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16461 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16462 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
16463 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
16464 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16466 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16467 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
16468 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
16469 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
16470 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
16471 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
16474 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16475 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
16476 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
16477 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
16478 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
16479 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
16480 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
16482 o Minor features (security):
16483 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16484 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16487 o Minor features (config options and command line):
16488 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
16489 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
16490 Implements ticket 10060.
16491 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
16492 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
16493 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
16495 o Minor features (controller):
16496 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
16497 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
16498 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
16499 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
16500 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
16503 o Minor features (build):
16504 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
16505 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
16506 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
16507 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
16508 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
16509 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
16510 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
16512 o Minor features (testing):
16513 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
16514 the unit test scripts.
16515 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
16516 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
16517 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
16518 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
16520 o Minor features (log messages):
16521 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
16522 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
16523 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
16524 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
16525 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
16526 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
16527 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
16528 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
16529 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16530 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16532 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16533 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
16534 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
16535 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
16536 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
16537 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
16538 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
16539 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
16540 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
16541 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16543 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
16544 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
16545 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
16546 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
16549 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16550 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16551 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16552 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16553 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16555 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16556 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
16557 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
16558 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
16559 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
16560 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
16561 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
16563 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
16564 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
16565 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
16566 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
16567 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
16568 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
16569 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16570 Reported by "mr-4".
16571 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
16572 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
16573 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
16574 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16576 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
16577 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
16578 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
16579 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
16580 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
16581 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
16582 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
16583 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
16584 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
16585 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
16586 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16588 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16589 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
16590 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
16591 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
16592 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
16593 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
16594 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
16595 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
16596 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
16597 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
16599 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
16600 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
16601 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
16602 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
16605 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16606 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
16607 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
16608 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
16609 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
16610 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
16612 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
16613 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16615 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16616 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16617 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16618 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16620 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16621 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
16622 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
16623 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16624 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
16625 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
16626 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
16627 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16628 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
16629 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
16630 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
16631 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
16632 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
16633 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
16635 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
16636 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
16637 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16638 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
16639 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
16640 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
16642 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16643 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
16644 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16645 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
16646 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
16647 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
16648 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
16649 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
16650 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
16651 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16652 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
16653 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16655 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16656 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
16657 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
16658 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
16659 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
16660 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16661 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
16662 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
16663 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16664 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
16665 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
16666 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
16667 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
16668 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
16669 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
16670 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
16673 o Removed code and features:
16674 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
16675 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
16676 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
16677 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
16678 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
16679 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
16681 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
16682 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
16683 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
16684 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
16685 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
16686 part of a fix for bug 10841.
16688 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16689 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
16690 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
16691 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
16692 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
16693 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
16694 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
16695 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16696 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
16697 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
16698 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
16701 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
16702 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
16703 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
16704 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16705 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16707 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16708 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
16709 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
16710 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
16711 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
16712 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
16713 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
16716 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
16717 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
16718 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
16721 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
16722 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
16723 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
16724 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
16725 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
16726 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
16727 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
16729 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
16730 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
16733 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
16734 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
16735 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
16736 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
16737 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
16738 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
16739 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
16740 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
16742 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
16743 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16744 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16745 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
16746 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
16747 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16750 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
16751 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16752 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
16753 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
16754 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
16757 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
16758 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
16759 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
16760 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
16761 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
16762 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
16763 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
16764 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
16766 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
16767 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
16768 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
16769 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
16770 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
16771 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
16772 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
16773 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
16774 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
16775 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
16776 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
16777 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
16778 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
16779 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
16780 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
16781 security, and privacy fixes.
16784 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
16785 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
16786 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
16787 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
16790 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
16791 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
16792 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
16793 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
16794 them to solve bug 6033.)
16797 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
16798 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
16799 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
16800 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
16801 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
16802 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16803 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
16804 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
16806 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
16807 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
16808 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
16809 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16811 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
16812 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
16813 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16814 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
16815 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
16816 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
16817 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
16818 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
16819 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
16820 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16821 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
16822 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16824 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
16825 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
16826 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
16827 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
16828 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
16829 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16830 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
16831 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
16832 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16833 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
16834 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
16835 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
16836 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
16837 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
16838 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
16839 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
16842 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
16843 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
16844 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
16845 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
16846 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
16847 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
16848 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
16849 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
16850 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
16851 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
16852 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
16853 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
16854 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
16855 Implements part of proposal 222.
16857 o Minor features (other):
16858 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
16859 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
16860 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
16861 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
16862 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
16863 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
16864 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
16865 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
16866 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16868 o Documentation fixes:
16869 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
16870 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
16871 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
16872 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
16873 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
16874 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
16877 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
16878 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
16879 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
16880 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
16881 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
16882 release of the new branch.
16884 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
16885 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
16886 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
16888 o Major features (security):
16889 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
16890 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
16891 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
16892 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
16893 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
16894 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
16895 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
16896 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
16897 Google Summer of Code.
16898 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
16899 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
16900 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
16901 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
16902 them to solve bug 6033.)
16904 o Major features (other):
16905 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
16906 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
16907 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
16908 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
16909 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
16911 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
16912 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
16913 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
16914 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
16915 Implements ticket 8530.
16916 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
16917 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
16920 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
16921 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
16922 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
16923 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
16924 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
16925 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16926 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
16927 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
16928 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16929 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
16930 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
16931 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
16932 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16935 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
16936 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
16937 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
16938 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
16939 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
16940 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
16941 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
16942 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
16943 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
16944 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
16948 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
16949 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
16950 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
16951 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
16952 invoking the other functions it calls.
16953 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
16954 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
16955 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
16956 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
16958 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
16959 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
16960 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
16961 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
16962 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
16963 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
16964 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
16965 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
16966 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
16967 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
16968 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
16969 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
16970 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
16971 Implements part of proposal 222.
16973 o Minor features (config options):
16974 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
16975 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
16976 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
16977 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
16978 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
16979 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
16980 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
16981 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
16982 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
16983 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
16984 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
16985 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
16986 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
16987 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
16988 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
16989 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
16990 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
16993 o Minor features (build):
16994 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
16995 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
16996 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
16997 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
16998 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
17001 o Minor features (other):
17002 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
17003 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
17004 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
17005 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
17006 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17007 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
17008 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
17009 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
17010 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
17011 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
17012 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
17013 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
17014 Closes ticket 8109.
17015 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17018 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
17019 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
17020 bugfix on every released Tor.
17021 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
17022 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
17023 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17024 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
17025 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
17026 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
17028 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
17029 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
17030 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
17031 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17032 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
17033 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
17034 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
17035 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17037 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
17038 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
17039 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
17040 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
17041 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
17043 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
17044 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17046 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
17047 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
17048 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
17050 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
17051 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
17052 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
17053 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
17054 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17056 o Minor code improvements:
17057 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17058 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17060 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17061 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17062 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17063 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17064 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17066 o Removed features:
17067 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17068 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17069 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17070 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17072 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17073 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17074 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17075 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17076 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17077 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17078 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17079 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17080 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17081 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17082 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17083 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17084 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17085 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17086 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17087 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17090 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
17091 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17092 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
17093 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
17094 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
17095 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
17096 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
17099 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
17100 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
17101 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
17102 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
17103 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
17104 Implements ticket 9574.
17107 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
17108 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
17109 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17110 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
17111 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
17112 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
17113 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
17114 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
17115 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17116 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
17117 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
17118 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
17122 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
17123 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
17124 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
17125 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
17127 o Minor fixes (config options):
17128 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
17129 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
17130 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
17131 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
17132 message is logged at notice, not at info.
17133 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
17134 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
17135 or we just won't work.)
17138 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
17139 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
17140 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
17141 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17144 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
17145 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17146 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
17149 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
17150 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
17151 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17152 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
17153 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17154 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
17155 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
17157 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
17158 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17159 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
17160 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
17163 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
17164 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
17165 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17166 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
17167 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
17168 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
17169 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
17170 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
17171 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
17172 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
17173 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17174 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
17175 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
17178 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17181 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
17182 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17183 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
17184 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
17187 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
17188 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
17189 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17192 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
17193 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
17194 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
17197 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
17198 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
17199 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17202 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
17203 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
17204 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
17205 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
17206 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
17207 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17209 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
17210 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
17211 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
17212 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
17213 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
17214 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17216 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
17217 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
17218 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17221 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
17222 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
17223 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
17224 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
17225 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
17227 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
17228 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
17229 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
17230 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17231 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
17232 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
17233 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
17235 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
17236 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
17237 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
17239 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
17240 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
17244 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
17245 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
17246 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
17248 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
17249 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
17250 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
17251 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
17252 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
17253 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
17255 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
17256 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
17257 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
17258 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
17259 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
17260 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
17261 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17264 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
17265 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
17266 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
17267 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
17268 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
17269 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
17270 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17271 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
17272 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17273 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
17274 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
17275 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17276 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
17277 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
17279 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
17280 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
17281 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
17282 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
17285 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17286 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
17287 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
17288 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
17289 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
17290 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
17292 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
17293 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
17297 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
17298 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
17299 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
17300 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
17301 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
17302 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
17303 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17305 o Removed documentation:
17306 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
17307 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
17309 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17310 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
17311 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
17312 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
17315 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
17316 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
17317 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
17318 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
17319 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
17320 variety of other issues.
17323 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
17324 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
17325 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
17326 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
17327 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
17328 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17329 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
17330 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
17332 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
17333 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
17334 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
17336 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
17337 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
17338 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
17339 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17340 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
17341 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
17342 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17344 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17345 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
17346 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
17347 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
17348 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
17349 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
17350 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
17351 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17352 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
17353 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
17354 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
17355 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
17356 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17357 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
17358 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
17359 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
17360 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
17361 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
17362 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
17363 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
17364 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17366 o Major bugfixes (other):
17367 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
17368 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
17369 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
17370 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17373 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
17374 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
17375 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
17376 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
17378 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
17379 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
17381 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17383 o Minor features (build):
17384 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
17385 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
17387 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
17388 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
17390 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
17391 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
17392 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
17395 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17396 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
17397 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17398 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17399 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
17400 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
17401 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17402 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
17403 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
17404 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17405 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
17406 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
17407 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
17408 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
17411 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
17412 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
17413 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
17414 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
17415 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
17416 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
17417 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
17418 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
17419 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
17420 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
17421 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
17422 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
17423 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
17424 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17425 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17427 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17428 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
17429 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17430 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
17431 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
17432 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
17433 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
17434 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17435 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
17436 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
17437 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
17438 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
17439 Should help resolve bug 8235.
17440 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
17441 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
17442 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
17443 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17445 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
17446 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
17447 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
17448 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
17449 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
17450 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
17451 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
17452 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
17455 o Minor bugfixes (config):
17456 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
17457 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
17459 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
17460 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
17461 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17462 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
17463 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
17464 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
17465 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17466 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
17467 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
17468 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17469 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
17470 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
17471 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17472 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
17473 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
17476 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
17477 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
17478 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
17479 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
17480 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
17481 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
17482 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
17483 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
17485 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
17486 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
17487 or at least make it more diagnosable.
17488 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
17489 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
17490 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
17491 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17493 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
17494 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
17495 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
17496 the relaxed timeout log message.
17497 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
17498 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
17499 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
17501 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
17502 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
17503 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17504 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
17505 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17506 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
17507 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
17510 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
17511 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
17512 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
17513 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
17514 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17515 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
17516 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17517 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
17518 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
17519 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
17520 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
17521 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
17522 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17523 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
17524 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
17525 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
17526 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17528 o Documentation fixes:
17529 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
17530 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
17531 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
17532 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17533 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
17534 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
17535 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
17536 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
17539 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
17540 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
17544 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
17545 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
17546 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
17547 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
17549 o Major features (directory authorities):
17550 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
17551 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
17552 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
17553 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
17554 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
17555 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
17556 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
17557 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
17558 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
17559 Implements ticket 8151.
17561 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17562 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
17563 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
17564 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
17565 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17567 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17568 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
17569 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
17570 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
17571 whether authentication information is present, causing all
17572 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
17573 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
17575 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
17576 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
17577 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
17578 bugs 1913 and 1992.
17579 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
17580 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
17581 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
17582 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
17583 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
17584 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
17585 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
17586 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
17587 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
17588 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
17589 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
17590 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
17591 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
17592 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
17593 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
17594 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
17595 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
17596 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
17599 o Minor features (portability):
17600 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
17601 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17602 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
17603 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
17604 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
17605 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
17606 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
17607 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17609 o Minor features (other):
17610 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
17611 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
17612 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
17613 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
17614 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
17615 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
17616 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
17617 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
17619 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17621 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17622 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
17623 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
17624 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
17625 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
17626 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17627 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
17628 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
17629 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
17630 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
17632 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
17633 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
17634 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
17635 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17637 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17638 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
17639 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
17640 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
17641 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
17642 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
17643 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
17645 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
17646 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
17647 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
17648 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
17649 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
17651 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
17652 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
17653 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
17654 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
17656 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17657 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
17658 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
17661 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
17662 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
17663 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
17664 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
17666 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
17667 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17668 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
17669 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17671 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
17672 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
17673 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
17674 this is CID 718634.
17675 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
17676 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
17677 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
17678 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
17680 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
17681 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
17682 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17683 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
17684 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
17685 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
17686 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17688 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17689 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
17693 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
17694 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
17695 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
17696 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
17697 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
17700 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17701 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
17702 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
17703 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17705 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
17706 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
17707 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17711 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
17712 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
17713 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
17714 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
17715 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
17716 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
17717 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
17718 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
17719 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
17720 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17721 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
17722 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
17723 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
17726 o Major features (relay):
17727 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
17728 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
17729 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
17730 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
17731 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
17732 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
17733 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
17735 o Major features (portability):
17736 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
17737 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
17738 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
17739 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
17740 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17743 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
17744 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
17745 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
17746 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
17747 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
17748 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
17750 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
17751 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
17752 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
17753 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
17754 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
17755 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
17756 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
17757 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
17759 o Minor features (path selection):
17760 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
17761 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17762 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17763 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17764 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
17765 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
17766 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
17767 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
17768 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
17769 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
17770 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
17771 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
17772 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
17773 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
17774 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
17775 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
17776 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
17777 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
17778 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
17780 o Minor features (log messages):
17781 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
17782 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
17783 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
17784 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
17787 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
17788 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
17789 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17790 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
17791 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
17792 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
17793 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
17794 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
17795 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
17796 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17797 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
17798 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17800 o Build improvements:
17801 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
17802 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
17803 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
17804 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
17805 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
17806 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
17807 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
17808 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
17809 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
17810 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
17811 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
17812 than to perform erroneously.
17814 o Removed features:
17815 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
17816 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
17817 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
17819 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
17820 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
17821 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
17824 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17825 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
17827 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
17828 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
17832 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
17833 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
17834 work more robustly.
17837 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
17838 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
17839 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
17843 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
17844 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
17845 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
17846 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
17849 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
17850 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
17851 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
17852 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
17853 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
17854 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
17855 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
17856 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
17857 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
17858 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
17859 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
17860 closes ticket 7199.
17862 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
17863 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
17864 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
17865 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
17866 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
17867 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
17868 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
17869 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
17870 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
17871 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
17872 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
17874 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
17875 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
17876 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
17878 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
17879 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
17880 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
17882 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
17884 o Major features (better link encryption):
17885 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
17886 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
17887 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
17888 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
17889 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
17890 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
17893 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
17894 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
17895 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
17896 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
17897 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
17898 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
17899 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
17901 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
17902 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
17903 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
17904 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
17906 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
17909 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
17910 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
17911 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17914 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
17915 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
17916 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
17917 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
17918 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
17919 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
17920 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
17921 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17922 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17924 o Minor features (testing):
17925 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
17926 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
17927 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
17929 o Minor features (path bias detection):
17930 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
17931 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
17932 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
17933 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
17934 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
17935 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
17936 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
17937 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
17938 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
17939 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
17940 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
17941 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
17942 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
17943 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
17944 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
17945 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
17946 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
17947 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
17948 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
17949 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
17950 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
17951 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
17952 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
17953 detection capability loss.
17955 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17956 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
17957 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
17958 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
17959 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17960 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
17961 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
17962 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
17965 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17966 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
17967 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
17968 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
17969 and the different handshakes it supports.
17970 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
17971 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
17972 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
17973 any encoding is overkill.
17976 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
17977 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
17978 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
17979 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
17980 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
17981 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
17982 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
17983 and fixes a variety of other issues.
17985 o Major features (client resilience):
17986 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
17987 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
17988 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
17989 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
17990 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
17991 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
17992 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
17993 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
17994 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
17995 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
17996 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
17997 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
17998 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
17999 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
18000 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
18002 o Major features (IPv6):
18003 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
18004 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
18005 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
18006 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
18007 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
18008 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
18009 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
18010 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
18012 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
18013 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
18015 o Major features (geoip database):
18016 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
18017 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
18018 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
18019 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
18020 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
18021 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
18022 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
18023 Country database, as modified above.
18025 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
18026 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
18027 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
18028 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
18029 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
18030 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
18031 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
18032 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
18033 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
18034 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
18035 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
18036 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
18037 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
18038 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
18039 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
18040 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
18041 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
18044 o Major bugfixes (other):
18045 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
18046 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
18047 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
18048 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
18049 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
18050 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
18051 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
18052 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
18054 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
18055 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
18058 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18059 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18060 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18061 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
18062 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
18063 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
18064 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18065 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18067 o Minor features (IPv6):
18068 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18069 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18070 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18071 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18072 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18073 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18074 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18075 connect to the wrong addresses.
18076 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18077 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18078 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18079 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18083 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18084 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18085 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18086 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18087 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
18088 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
18089 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18091 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
18092 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
18093 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
18096 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18097 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18099 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18100 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18101 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18102 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
18103 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
18106 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
18107 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
18108 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
18109 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
18110 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
18111 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
18112 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
18113 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
18115 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
18116 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
18117 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18118 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
18119 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
18120 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
18121 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
18122 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
18123 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
18124 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
18125 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
18128 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18129 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18130 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18131 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18132 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18133 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18134 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18135 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18136 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18137 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18140 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
18141 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
18145 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
18146 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
18147 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
18148 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
18151 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
18152 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
18154 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18155 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18156 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18157 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18158 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18159 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18160 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18161 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18162 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18163 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18166 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
18168 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18169 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18170 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18171 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18172 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18175 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18176 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18177 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18178 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
18179 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
18181 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
18182 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18183 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
18184 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
18185 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
18186 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
18187 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
18189 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
18190 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18191 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
18192 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
18193 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
18194 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18195 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
18196 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18198 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18199 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
18200 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
18201 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
18202 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
18203 present the same extensions.)
18206 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
18207 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
18208 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
18209 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
18210 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
18212 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18213 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
18214 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
18215 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
18217 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18218 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18219 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18220 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18222 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18223 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
18224 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
18225 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
18226 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
18227 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
18228 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
18229 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
18230 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18232 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18233 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
18234 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
18235 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
18236 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18239 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18240 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18241 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18243 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18244 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
18246 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18247 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18251 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
18252 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
18253 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
18254 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
18257 o Major bugfixes (security):
18258 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
18259 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
18260 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
18262 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18263 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18264 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18265 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18268 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
18269 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
18270 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
18271 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
18272 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
18273 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
18274 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
18275 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18278 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
18279 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
18280 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
18281 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18284 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
18285 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
18286 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
18287 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
18288 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
18289 scheduling algorithms.
18291 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18292 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18293 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18295 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18296 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18297 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18298 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18299 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18300 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18301 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18302 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
18303 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
18304 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
18305 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
18307 o Internal abstraction features:
18308 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
18309 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
18310 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
18311 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
18312 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
18313 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
18314 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
18315 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
18316 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
18317 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
18318 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
18319 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
18320 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
18321 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
18322 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
18323 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
18324 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
18326 o Required libraries:
18327 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
18328 strongly recommended.
18331 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18332 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18333 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18334 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18335 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18336 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18337 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18338 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18339 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18341 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18342 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
18343 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
18344 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18345 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18346 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
18347 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
18348 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18349 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
18350 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
18351 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18352 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18353 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18354 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18355 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18358 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18359 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
18360 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
18361 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18362 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18363 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18364 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18365 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18366 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18367 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
18368 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
18369 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18370 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
18371 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
18372 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18373 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18374 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18375 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18376 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18378 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
18379 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18380 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18381 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
18382 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
18383 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
18384 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
18387 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
18388 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
18389 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
18390 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
18392 o New directory authorities:
18393 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18394 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18396 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
18397 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18398 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18399 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18400 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18401 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18402 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18403 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
18404 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
18405 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
18406 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
18409 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18410 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18411 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18413 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18414 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
18415 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
18416 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18417 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
18418 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
18419 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18420 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
18421 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
18423 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18424 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
18425 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
18426 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18427 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18428 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18429 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18430 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18431 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18432 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
18433 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18434 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18435 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18436 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18437 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18438 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18439 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18440 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18442 o Documentation fixes:
18443 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
18446 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
18447 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
18448 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
18449 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
18452 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18453 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18454 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18457 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18458 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18459 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18460 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
18461 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
18462 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
18463 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
18464 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18466 o Security features:
18467 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
18468 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
18469 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
18470 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
18471 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
18472 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
18473 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
18474 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
18475 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
18479 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
18480 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
18481 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
18484 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18485 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18486 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18487 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18488 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18489 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
18490 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
18491 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
18492 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
18493 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
18494 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18495 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
18496 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
18497 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
18499 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
18500 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18501 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
18502 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
18503 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18505 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
18506 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
18507 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
18508 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18509 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18510 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18511 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18512 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18513 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18514 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18515 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18516 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18517 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
18518 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18519 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
18520 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
18521 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18522 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
18523 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
18524 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
18526 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18527 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18528 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18529 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18530 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18531 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18532 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
18533 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18535 o Documentation fixes:
18536 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
18537 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
18541 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
18542 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
18546 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18547 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18548 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18551 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18552 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18556 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
18557 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
18561 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18562 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18563 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18564 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
18565 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
18566 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
18567 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
18571 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
18572 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
18573 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
18574 log messages less noisy.
18577 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
18578 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
18582 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
18583 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
18584 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
18585 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
18586 last time we raised it).
18589 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18590 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
18592 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18593 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18594 part of ticket 6736.
18595 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18596 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18597 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18601 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18602 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18603 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18604 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18605 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18607 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18608 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18609 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
18610 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
18611 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18612 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
18613 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
18614 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18615 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
18616 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18617 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
18618 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18620 o Removed features:
18621 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
18622 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
18623 bunch of compatibility code.
18625 o Code refactoring:
18626 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
18627 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
18628 the ORPort and the DirPort.
18631 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
18632 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
18633 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
18634 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
18636 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
18637 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
18638 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
18640 o Major features (bridges):
18641 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
18642 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
18643 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
18646 o Major features (IPv6):
18647 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
18648 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
18649 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
18650 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
18651 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
18652 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
18653 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
18654 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
18655 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
18657 o Major features (build):
18658 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
18659 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
18660 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
18661 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
18662 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
18663 fixes by Jim Meyering.
18664 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
18665 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
18666 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
18668 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
18669 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
18670 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
18671 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
18672 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
18673 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
18674 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
18675 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
18676 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
18677 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
18678 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
18680 o Minor features (streamlining);
18681 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
18682 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
18684 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18685 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
18686 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
18687 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
18688 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
18689 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18691 o Minor features (controller):
18692 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
18694 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
18695 Implements ticket 4971.
18697 o Minor features (IPv6):
18698 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18699 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18700 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18701 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18702 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18704 o Minor features (log messages):
18705 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18706 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18707 Resolves ticket 6758.
18708 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18709 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18710 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18711 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18712 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18713 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18714 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18716 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18717 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18718 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18719 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
18720 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18723 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18724 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
18725 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
18726 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
18727 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
18729 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18730 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18731 Implements ticket 5529.
18732 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18733 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18734 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18735 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
18736 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
18737 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
18738 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
18739 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
18740 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
18741 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
18743 o New requirements:
18744 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
18745 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
18746 from a source distribution.)
18749 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
18750 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18751 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
18752 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
18753 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
18754 and cleans up other smaller issues.
18756 o Major bugfixes (security):
18757 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
18758 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
18759 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
18760 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
18761 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18762 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
18763 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
18764 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
18765 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
18766 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
18767 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
18768 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18769 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
18770 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
18771 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
18772 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
18776 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
18777 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
18778 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
18779 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18780 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
18781 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
18782 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
18783 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
18784 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
18785 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18788 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
18789 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
18790 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
18791 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
18792 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18793 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
18794 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
18795 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
18796 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
18797 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
18798 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
18800 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
18801 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
18802 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
18804 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
18805 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
18806 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
18807 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
18808 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18809 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
18810 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
18811 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
18812 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18813 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
18814 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18815 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
18816 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
18817 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
18820 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18821 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
18822 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
18823 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
18824 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18825 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
18826 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
18827 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
18828 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
18829 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
18830 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
18831 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
18832 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
18833 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
18834 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
18837 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
18838 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
18839 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
18840 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
18841 Resolves ticket 6732.
18844 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
18845 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
18846 attack that could in theory leak path information.
18849 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
18850 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
18851 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18852 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
18853 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
18854 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
18855 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
18856 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
18857 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
18858 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
18859 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
18860 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
18861 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
18862 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
18865 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
18866 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18867 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
18868 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
18871 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
18872 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
18873 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18874 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
18875 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
18876 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18877 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
18878 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
18879 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
18880 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
18881 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
18882 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
18883 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
18884 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
18885 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
18886 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
18887 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
18890 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
18891 a little more useful.
18892 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
18893 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18894 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
18895 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
18896 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
18897 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
18898 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
18901 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
18902 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18903 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
18904 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18905 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
18906 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
18910 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
18911 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
18912 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
18913 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
18914 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
18917 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
18918 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
18919 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
18922 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
18924 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
18926 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18927 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
18928 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
18929 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
18930 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
18933 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
18934 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18935 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
18936 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
18937 since the beginning of Tor.
18940 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
18941 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
18942 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
18943 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
18944 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
18945 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
18946 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
18947 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18948 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
18949 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
18952 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
18953 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18956 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
18957 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18958 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
18959 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
18962 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
18963 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18964 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
18965 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
18966 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
18967 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18969 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18970 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
18971 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
18972 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
18973 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
18974 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
18975 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18976 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
18977 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
18978 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
18979 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
18980 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
18981 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
18982 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18983 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
18984 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
18985 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18986 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
18987 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18989 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18990 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
18991 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
18993 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
18994 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18995 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
18996 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
18998 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
18999 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19000 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
19001 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19002 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
19003 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
19004 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19005 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
19006 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19007 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
19008 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19009 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
19010 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
19011 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19012 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
19013 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
19016 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
19017 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
19018 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
19019 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
19020 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
19023 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
19024 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
19025 options. Closes bug 4748.
19028 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
19029 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
19030 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
19031 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
19032 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
19036 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
19037 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
19039 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
19040 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
19041 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
19042 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
19043 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
19044 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
19045 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
19046 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
19047 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
19050 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
19051 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
19052 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
19053 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
19054 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
19055 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
19056 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
19057 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19060 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19061 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19062 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19063 case for flushing marked connections.
19064 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19065 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19066 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19067 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19068 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19069 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19070 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19071 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19072 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19073 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
19074 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
19075 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
19076 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19077 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19078 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19079 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19080 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19081 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
19082 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19083 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19084 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
19085 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19086 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19087 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
19088 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
19090 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
19091 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19092 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
19096 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
19097 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
19098 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
19099 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
19100 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
19101 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
19102 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
19103 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
19104 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
19105 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
19106 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
19107 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
19108 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
19109 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
19110 Addresses ticket 5458.
19111 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19113 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19114 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
19115 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
19118 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
19119 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19120 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19124 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19125 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19126 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19127 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19128 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19129 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19130 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19131 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19132 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19133 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19134 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19137 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19138 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19141 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19142 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19145 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
19146 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19147 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19148 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
19149 that get us closer to a release candidate.
19151 o Major bugfixes (general):
19152 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19153 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19154 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19155 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19156 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19157 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19158 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19159 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
19160 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
19162 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
19163 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
19164 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
19165 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
19168 o Major bugfixes (clients):
19169 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
19170 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
19171 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
19172 which introduced predicted ports.
19173 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19174 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19175 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19176 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19177 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
19178 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
19179 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
19180 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
19181 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
19182 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
19183 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19184 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
19185 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
19187 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19188 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
19189 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
19190 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
19191 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
19192 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19193 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
19194 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
19195 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
19196 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
19197 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
19201 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
19202 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
19203 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
19204 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
19205 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
19206 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
19207 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
19208 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
19209 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
19210 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
19211 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
19212 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
19213 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
19214 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
19216 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
19217 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
19218 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
19219 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
19220 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
19221 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
19222 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
19223 sure. Closes bug 5139.
19224 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19225 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19226 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19227 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
19228 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19229 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19230 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19232 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
19233 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19234 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19235 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19236 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19237 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19238 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19239 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19240 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19241 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19242 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19243 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19244 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19245 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19246 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19247 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19248 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19249 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19250 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19251 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19253 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19254 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19255 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19256 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19257 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19258 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19259 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19260 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19261 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
19262 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
19263 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
19264 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19265 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19267 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19268 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19269 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
19270 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
19272 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19273 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19274 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19275 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
19276 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
19277 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19278 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19279 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19280 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
19281 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
19283 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
19284 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
19285 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
19287 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19288 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19289 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19290 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19291 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19292 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19293 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19294 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19295 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19296 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19297 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19298 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19299 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19300 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19301 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19302 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19303 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19304 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19305 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19306 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19308 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19309 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19310 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19311 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19312 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19313 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19315 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19316 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19317 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19319 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19320 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19321 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19322 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19323 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19324 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19326 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19327 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
19328 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
19330 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
19331 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
19332 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19333 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
19334 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
19335 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19336 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
19337 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
19338 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19339 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19340 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
19341 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
19342 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
19343 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
19344 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
19345 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
19347 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
19348 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
19349 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19350 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
19351 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
19352 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19353 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
19354 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19355 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
19356 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19357 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
19358 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19359 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
19362 o Documentation fixes:
19363 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
19364 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
19365 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
19366 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
19367 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
19368 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
19371 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
19372 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
19376 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
19377 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
19378 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
19379 and fixes several crash bugs.
19381 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
19382 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
19383 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
19384 those packages and upgrade anyway.
19386 o Directory authority changes:
19387 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19388 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19392 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19393 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19394 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19395 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19396 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19397 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19398 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19399 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19400 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19401 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19402 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19403 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19404 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19405 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19406 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19407 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19408 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19409 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19410 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19411 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19412 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19413 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19414 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19415 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19416 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19417 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19418 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
19421 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19422 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19423 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19424 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19426 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19427 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19429 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19430 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19431 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19432 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19433 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19434 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19435 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19436 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19439 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19440 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19441 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19442 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19443 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19444 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19445 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19446 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19447 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19448 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19449 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19450 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19451 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19452 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19453 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19454 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19455 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19456 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19457 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19458 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19459 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19460 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19461 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19462 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19463 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19464 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19465 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19466 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19467 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19468 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19469 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19470 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19471 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19472 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19473 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19474 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19475 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19476 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19477 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19478 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19479 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
19480 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19481 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19482 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19483 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19484 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19486 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19487 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19488 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19489 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19490 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19491 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19492 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19493 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19494 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19495 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19496 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19497 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19498 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19499 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19500 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19503 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19504 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19505 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19506 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19508 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19511 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19512 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19513 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19514 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19515 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19516 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19517 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19520 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
19521 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
19522 the development branch build on Windows again.
19524 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19525 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19526 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19527 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19528 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19529 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
19530 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
19531 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
19532 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
19533 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19534 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19535 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19536 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19537 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
19538 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
19540 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19541 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
19542 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
19543 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19544 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
19545 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19546 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
19547 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19548 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
19549 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
19550 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
19551 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19554 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
19555 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
19556 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
19557 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
19558 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
19559 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
19560 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
19561 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
19562 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
19564 o Removed features:
19565 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
19566 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
19567 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
19568 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
19572 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
19573 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
19574 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
19575 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
19577 o Directory authority changes:
19578 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19582 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19583 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19584 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19585 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19587 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
19588 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
19589 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
19590 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
19591 documents entirely.
19592 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
19593 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
19594 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19596 o Major features (performance):
19597 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
19598 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
19599 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
19600 much faster than other AES implementations.
19602 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
19603 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19604 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19605 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19606 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19607 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19608 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19609 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19610 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19611 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19612 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19613 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19614 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19615 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19616 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19617 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
19618 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
19619 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19621 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
19622 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
19623 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
19624 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19625 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
19626 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19627 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
19628 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
19629 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
19631 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
19632 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
19633 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19634 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
19635 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
19636 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19639 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19640 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19641 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19642 please let us know about it.
19643 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
19644 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
19645 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
19646 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
19647 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19648 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19649 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
19650 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
19652 o Default torrc changes:
19653 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
19654 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
19656 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
19657 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
19658 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
19661 o Removed features:
19662 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
19663 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
19664 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
19665 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
19667 o Code refactoring:
19668 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
19669 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
19670 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
19671 it would be a bad idea to start.
19674 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
19675 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
19676 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
19677 that get us closer to a release candidate.
19679 o Directory authority changes:
19680 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19683 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19684 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19685 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19686 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19687 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19688 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19689 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
19690 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19691 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19692 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19693 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19694 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19695 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19696 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19697 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19698 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19700 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
19701 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
19702 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
19703 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
19704 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
19705 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19706 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
19707 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
19708 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19709 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
19710 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
19711 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
19713 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
19714 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
19715 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19716 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
19717 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
19719 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19720 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19721 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19722 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19723 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19724 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19725 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19726 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19727 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19728 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19729 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19730 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19731 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19732 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19733 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19734 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19735 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19736 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19737 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19738 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
19739 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
19740 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
19743 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19744 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
19745 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19746 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
19747 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
19748 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
19749 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
19750 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
19751 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19752 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
19753 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
19754 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
19755 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
19756 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
19757 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
19758 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
19759 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
19762 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19763 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19764 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19767 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
19768 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
19769 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
19770 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
19773 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19774 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19776 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
19777 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
19778 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
19779 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19780 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
19781 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
19782 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
19783 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19784 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
19785 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
19786 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
19787 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19790 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
19791 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
19792 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
19793 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
19794 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
19795 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
19796 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19799 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19800 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19801 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19802 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19803 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
19804 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
19805 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
19806 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
19807 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
19808 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
19810 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
19811 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
19812 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
19813 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
19814 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19815 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19816 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19817 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
19818 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
19821 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19822 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
19823 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
19827 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
19828 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
19829 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
19830 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
19831 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
19832 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
19835 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
19836 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
19837 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
19838 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
19839 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
19840 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
19841 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
19842 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
19844 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19845 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
19846 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
19847 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
19848 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
19849 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
19850 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
19851 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
19853 o Major security workaround:
19854 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19855 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19856 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19857 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19858 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19859 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19860 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19861 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19862 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19863 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19864 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19867 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19868 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19869 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19870 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19871 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19872 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19873 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19874 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19875 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
19876 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
19877 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
19878 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
19879 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
19881 o Minor features (controller):
19882 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19883 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19884 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19885 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19886 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19887 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19888 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19889 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19890 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19892 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19893 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19894 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19895 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19896 part of ticket 3457.
19897 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19898 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19899 circuit-status' control-port command.
19901 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19902 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19903 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19904 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19905 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19907 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
19908 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
19909 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
19910 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
19911 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
19912 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
19913 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
19915 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19916 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19918 o Minor features (other):
19919 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19920 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19921 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19922 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19923 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
19924 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19925 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19926 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
19928 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
19929 them from the other auths.
19930 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
19931 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
19932 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
19933 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
19934 the 0.2.3.x series.
19935 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19938 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19939 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19940 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19941 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19942 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19943 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19944 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19945 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19946 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19947 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19948 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19949 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19950 be disabled using the new
19951 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19952 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19953 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
19954 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
19955 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
19956 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
19957 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
19958 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
19959 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
19960 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
19961 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
19962 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
19964 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
19965 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
19966 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
19969 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19970 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19971 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
19973 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19974 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19975 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
19976 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
19977 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19978 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
19979 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19981 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
19982 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19983 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19984 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19985 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
19986 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
19987 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
19988 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
19990 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
19991 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
19992 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19993 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
19994 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
19995 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
19996 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
19997 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
19998 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
20001 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20002 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
20003 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
20004 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
20005 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
20006 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
20007 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
20008 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
20009 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20010 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
20011 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
20012 accidentally been reverted.
20013 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
20014 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
20015 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
20016 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
20017 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
20018 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
20019 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20020 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
20021 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
20022 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20023 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
20024 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
20025 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
20026 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
20027 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20028 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
20029 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20030 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
20031 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20034 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
20035 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
20036 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
20037 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
20038 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
20039 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
20040 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
20042 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20043 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
20044 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
20045 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
20046 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
20047 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
20048 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
20050 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
20051 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
20052 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
20053 invalid value, rather than just -1.
20054 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
20055 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
20056 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
20057 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
20058 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
20059 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
20060 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
20064 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
20065 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
20066 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20068 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20069 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20070 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20071 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20072 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20073 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20074 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20075 (which Tor does not do by default).
20077 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20078 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20079 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20080 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20081 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20083 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
20087 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20088 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20089 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20090 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20093 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
20094 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
20095 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
20096 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
20097 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
20098 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
20099 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
20100 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
20101 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
20102 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
20103 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20106 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20109 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
20110 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
20111 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20113 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20114 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20115 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20116 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20117 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20118 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20119 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20120 (which Tor does not do by default).
20122 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20123 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20124 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20125 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20126 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20128 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
20129 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
20130 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
20133 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
20134 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
20135 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
20136 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
20137 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20139 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
20140 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
20143 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20144 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20145 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20146 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20147 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20148 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20149 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20150 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20152 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20153 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20154 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20155 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20156 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20157 close based on processing a cell on it.
20158 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20159 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20160 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20161 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20162 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20163 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20164 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20165 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
20166 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
20167 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
20168 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20169 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20170 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20171 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20172 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
20175 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20176 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20177 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20178 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20179 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20180 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20181 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20183 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20184 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20185 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20186 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20187 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20188 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20189 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20190 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20191 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20192 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20193 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20194 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20195 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20196 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20197 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
20198 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
20199 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
20200 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
20201 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20202 Reported by "troll_un".
20203 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20204 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20205 Reported by "troll_un".
20206 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20207 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20208 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20209 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20212 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20213 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20214 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20215 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20216 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20217 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20218 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20219 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20220 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20221 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20222 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20224 o Packaging changes:
20225 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20226 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20229 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
20230 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20231 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20232 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20233 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20235 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
20236 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
20238 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20239 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20240 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20241 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20242 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20243 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20244 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20245 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20246 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20249 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20252 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
20253 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
20254 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
20255 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
20256 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
20257 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
20258 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
20261 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20262 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20263 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20264 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20265 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20266 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20267 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20268 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20269 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20270 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20271 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20272 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20273 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20274 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
20275 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
20276 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20277 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20278 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20279 Resolves ticket 4526.
20280 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20281 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20282 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20283 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20284 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20285 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20286 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20287 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20288 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20289 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
20290 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
20291 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20292 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20293 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20294 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20295 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20298 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20299 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20300 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20301 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20302 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20303 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20304 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20305 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
20306 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
20307 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20309 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
20310 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20311 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20312 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20313 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
20314 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
20315 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
20316 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
20317 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
20319 o Minor features (new/different config options):
20320 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
20321 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
20322 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
20323 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
20324 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
20325 Implements issue 933.
20326 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
20327 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
20328 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
20329 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
20330 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
20331 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
20332 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
20333 appending to the list.
20334 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
20335 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
20336 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
20337 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
20339 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20340 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20341 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20342 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20343 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20344 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
20345 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
20346 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
20349 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
20350 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
20351 Resolves ticket 2474.
20352 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
20353 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
20354 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
20355 Required by fix for bug 3460.
20356 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
20357 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
20358 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
20359 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
20360 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
20361 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
20362 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
20363 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
20364 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
20366 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20367 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20368 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20370 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
20372 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
20373 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
20375 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
20376 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
20377 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20378 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20379 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
20380 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
20381 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
20383 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
20384 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
20385 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20386 Reported by "troll_un".
20387 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20388 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20389 Reported by "troll_un".
20390 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20391 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20392 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
20393 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
20395 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
20396 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
20398 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
20399 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
20400 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
20401 with help from wanoskarnet.
20402 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
20403 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20406 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
20407 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
20408 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
20409 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20411 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
20412 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
20413 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
20414 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
20415 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
20416 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
20417 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
20418 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
20421 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
20422 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
20423 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
20424 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
20425 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
20426 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
20427 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
20428 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
20429 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
20432 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20433 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20434 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20435 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20437 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20438 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20439 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20440 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20441 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20442 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20443 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20444 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20445 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20446 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20447 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
20448 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
20449 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
20450 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
20451 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
20452 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
20453 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
20454 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
20455 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
20456 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20457 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20458 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20459 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20460 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
20463 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
20464 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
20465 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
20466 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
20467 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
20468 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20469 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20470 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20473 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20474 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20475 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20476 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20477 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20478 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20479 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20480 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20481 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20482 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
20483 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
20484 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
20485 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
20486 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
20487 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
20489 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
20490 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
20491 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20492 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20493 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20494 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20495 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20496 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20497 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
20498 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
20499 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
20500 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20501 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20502 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20503 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20504 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20505 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20507 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
20508 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
20509 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
20510 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
20511 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20512 Found by frosty_un.
20513 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
20514 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
20515 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
20517 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
20518 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
20519 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
20521 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
20522 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
20524 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
20525 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20528 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20529 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20530 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20531 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20532 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20533 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20534 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20535 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20536 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20537 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20538 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
20539 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
20540 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
20541 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
20543 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
20544 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
20545 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20547 o Packaging changes:
20548 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20549 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20551 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20552 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
20553 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
20554 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20555 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20556 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20557 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20558 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
20559 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
20562 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
20564 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
20565 ./src/test/bench binary.
20566 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
20567 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
20570 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
20571 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
20572 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
20576 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20577 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20578 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20579 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20580 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20581 close based on processing a cell on it.
20582 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
20583 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
20584 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20585 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20586 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20587 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20588 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20589 cells were introduced.
20592 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20593 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20596 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
20597 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
20598 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
20599 users. Everybody should upgrade.
20601 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
20602 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
20605 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20606 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20607 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20608 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20609 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
20610 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20612 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20613 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20614 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20615 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20616 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20617 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20618 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20619 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20620 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20621 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20622 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20623 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20624 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20625 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20626 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20627 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20628 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20629 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20632 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20633 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20634 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20635 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20636 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20637 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20638 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20639 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20640 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20641 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20642 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20643 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20644 Partly fixes bug 3825.
20645 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20646 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20647 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20648 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20649 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20650 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20651 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20653 o Major bugfixes (other):
20654 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20655 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20656 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20657 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20658 Found by "frosty_un".
20659 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20660 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20661 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20662 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20663 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
20664 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20665 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20666 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20669 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20670 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20671 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20672 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20673 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20674 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20675 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
20676 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
20677 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20678 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20679 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20680 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20681 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20682 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20683 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20684 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20685 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20686 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20687 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20688 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20689 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20691 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
20692 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
20693 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
20694 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20695 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
20696 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
20697 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
20698 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
20699 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
20700 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
20701 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
20704 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
20705 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
20706 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
20707 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
20708 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20709 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20710 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20711 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20712 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20713 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20714 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20715 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
20716 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
20717 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20719 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20720 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
20721 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
20722 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
20723 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
20724 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
20725 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
20726 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
20729 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
20730 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
20731 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
20733 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
20734 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
20735 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
20736 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20737 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20738 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20739 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20740 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20741 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20742 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20743 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20744 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20745 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20747 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20748 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20749 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20750 currently connected to them.
20752 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20753 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20754 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20756 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20757 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20758 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20759 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20760 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20761 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20762 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20763 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20764 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20765 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20766 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20767 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20768 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20769 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20770 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20771 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20772 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20773 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20776 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20777 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20778 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20779 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20780 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20781 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20782 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20783 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20784 when bridges were introduced.
20785 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20786 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20787 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20788 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20789 Found by "frosty_un".
20792 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20793 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20795 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20796 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20797 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20798 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20799 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20800 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20801 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20804 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20805 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20806 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20807 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20808 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20809 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20810 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20811 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20812 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20813 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20814 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20815 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20816 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20817 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20818 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20819 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20820 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20821 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20823 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20824 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20825 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20826 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20827 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20828 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20829 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20830 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20831 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20832 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20833 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20834 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20837 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20838 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20839 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20840 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20843 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20844 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20845 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20846 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20847 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20849 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20850 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20851 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20852 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20853 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20854 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20855 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20856 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20857 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20858 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20860 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20861 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20862 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20863 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20864 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20865 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20866 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20867 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20868 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20869 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20870 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20871 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20872 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20873 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20874 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20875 Found by "frosty_un".
20876 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20877 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20878 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20879 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20880 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20881 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20882 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20883 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20884 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20885 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20886 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20887 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20888 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20889 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20890 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20891 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20892 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20893 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20894 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20896 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20897 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20898 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20899 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20900 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20901 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20902 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20903 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20905 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20906 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20907 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20908 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20909 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20910 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20911 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20912 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20913 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20914 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20915 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20916 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20918 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20919 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20920 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20921 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20922 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20923 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20924 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20925 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20926 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20928 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20930 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20931 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20932 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20933 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20934 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20935 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20936 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20937 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20939 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20940 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20941 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20942 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20943 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20945 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20946 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20947 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20948 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20949 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20952 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
20953 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
20954 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
20955 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
20956 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
20959 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20960 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20961 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20962 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20963 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20964 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20965 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20966 when bridges were introduced.
20969 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
20970 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
20971 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20973 o Major features (networking):
20974 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20975 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20976 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20977 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20978 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20982 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20983 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20984 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20986 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
20987 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20988 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20989 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20990 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20992 o Minor features (diagnostics):
20993 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
20994 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
20997 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
20998 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
20999 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
21000 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
21001 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
21002 listed in the network consensus and republish.
21004 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21005 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21006 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21007 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21009 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
21010 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21011 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21012 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21013 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21014 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21015 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21016 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21017 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21018 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21019 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21021 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21022 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21023 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21024 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21025 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21026 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21027 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21028 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21029 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21030 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21032 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21033 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21034 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21035 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21036 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21037 fixes part of bug 2442.
21038 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21039 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21040 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21042 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21043 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21044 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21045 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21046 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21048 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21049 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21050 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21051 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21052 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21055 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
21056 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
21057 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
21061 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21062 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21063 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21064 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21065 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21066 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21067 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21070 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21071 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21072 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21073 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21074 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21075 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21076 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21079 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
21080 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21081 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21082 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21083 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21084 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21085 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
21086 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
21087 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21089 o Code refactoring:
21090 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21091 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21094 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
21095 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
21096 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
21097 reachable from Iran again.
21100 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21101 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21102 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21104 o Minor features (security):
21105 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21106 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21107 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21108 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21109 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21110 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21111 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21112 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21113 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21114 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21117 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21118 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21119 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21120 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21121 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21122 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21123 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21124 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21125 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21127 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21128 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21129 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21130 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21131 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21132 raised by bug 3898.
21133 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21134 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21135 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21136 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21137 fixes part of bug 2442.
21138 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21139 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21140 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21142 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21143 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21144 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21145 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21146 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21149 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21150 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21151 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21152 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21153 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21154 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21157 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
21158 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
21159 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
21160 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
21161 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
21162 bufferevent-based networking backend.
21164 o Major features (stream isolation):
21165 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21166 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21167 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21168 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21169 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21170 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21171 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21172 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21173 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21174 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21175 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21176 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21177 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21178 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21180 o Major features (other):
21181 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
21182 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
21183 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
21184 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
21185 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
21186 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
21187 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21188 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21189 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21190 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21191 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21192 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21193 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21195 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21196 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
21198 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
21199 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
21200 Fixes part of bug 3752.
21201 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
21202 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
21203 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
21204 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
21205 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
21206 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
21207 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
21208 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
21209 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
21210 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
21211 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
21212 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
21213 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
21214 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
21215 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
21216 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
21217 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
21219 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21220 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
21221 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
21222 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
21223 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
21224 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
21227 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21228 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21229 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21230 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
21231 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
21232 best copy data out of a buffer.
21233 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21234 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21235 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21237 o Minor features (build compatibility):
21238 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21239 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21240 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21242 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21243 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21245 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
21246 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
21247 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21248 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
21249 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
21250 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
21251 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21253 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
21254 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21255 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21256 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21257 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21258 raised by bug 3898.
21259 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21260 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21261 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21264 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21265 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21266 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21267 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21268 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21269 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21270 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21271 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21272 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21273 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21274 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21275 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21276 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21277 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21278 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21279 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21280 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21281 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21282 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21285 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21286 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21287 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21291 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21292 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21293 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21294 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21295 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21296 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21299 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
21300 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
21301 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
21302 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
21303 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
21304 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
21305 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
21306 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
21307 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
21308 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
21310 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
21311 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
21312 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
21313 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
21314 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
21315 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
21316 many many other features and bugfixes.
21319 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
21320 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
21321 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
21324 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21325 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21326 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21327 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
21328 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
21329 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
21330 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
21331 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
21334 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21337 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21338 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21339 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21340 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21341 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21342 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21343 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21344 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21345 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21346 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21347 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21348 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21349 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21350 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21351 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21352 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21353 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21354 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21358 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
21359 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
21360 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
21361 up a variety of recently introduced features.
21364 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21365 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21366 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
21367 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
21368 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21369 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
21370 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
21371 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
21372 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21373 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
21374 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
21375 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
21376 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21377 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21378 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21379 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21381 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21382 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
21383 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
21384 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
21385 order. Fixes bug 2798.
21386 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
21387 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
21388 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
21389 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
21390 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
21391 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
21395 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
21396 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21397 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21398 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21400 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21401 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21402 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21403 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21404 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21405 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21406 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21407 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21408 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21409 Implements ticket 3264.
21410 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21411 implements ticket 3439.
21413 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21414 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
21415 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
21416 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
21417 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
21418 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
21419 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
21420 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
21421 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
21422 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
21423 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
21424 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
21425 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
21426 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
21427 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
21428 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
21429 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
21430 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
21431 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
21432 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
21433 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
21434 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
21435 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
21436 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
21437 fails. Spotted by coverity.
21438 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
21439 present. Found by coverity.
21440 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
21441 a directory cache that provides them.
21443 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21444 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21445 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21446 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21447 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21448 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21450 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21451 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21452 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21453 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21454 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21455 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21456 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21457 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21459 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21460 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21461 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21462 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21463 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21464 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21465 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21467 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21471 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21472 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21473 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21476 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
21477 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
21478 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
21479 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
21482 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21483 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21484 discovered by katmagic.
21485 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21486 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21487 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21488 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21489 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21490 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21491 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21492 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21493 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
21494 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
21495 fixes part of bug 3465.
21496 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
21497 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
21501 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21504 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
21505 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
21506 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
21507 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
21508 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
21511 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
21512 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
21513 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
21514 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
21515 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
21518 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21519 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21520 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21521 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21522 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21523 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21526 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
21527 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
21528 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
21529 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21530 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21531 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21532 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21533 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21534 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21535 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21536 fixes part of bug 3407.
21537 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21538 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21539 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21540 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21541 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21542 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21543 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21544 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21545 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
21546 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
21548 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21549 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21550 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21551 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
21554 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21556 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21557 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
21558 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
21560 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
21562 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
21565 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
21566 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
21567 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
21568 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
21569 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
21570 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
21574 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
21575 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
21576 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
21577 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21578 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
21579 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
21580 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
21582 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
21583 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21584 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
21585 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
21586 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
21587 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
21588 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
21589 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
21590 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
21591 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
21592 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
21593 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
21594 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
21595 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
21596 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
21597 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
21598 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
21599 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
21600 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
21604 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
21605 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
21606 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
21607 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
21608 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
21609 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
21610 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
21611 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
21612 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
21616 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21617 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21618 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21620 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
21622 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
21623 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
21624 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
21625 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
21626 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21627 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21628 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21629 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21630 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
21632 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
21633 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21634 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
21635 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
21636 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
21637 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
21639 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21640 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21642 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21643 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21644 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21647 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
21648 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
21649 Resolves ticket 3252.
21650 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
21651 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
21652 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
21653 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
21654 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
21655 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21658 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21659 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21662 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
21663 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
21664 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
21667 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
21668 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21669 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
21670 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
21671 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
21674 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
21675 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21676 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21677 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21678 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21679 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21680 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21681 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21682 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21686 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
21687 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
21688 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
21689 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
21690 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
21692 o Security/privacy fixes:
21693 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21694 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21695 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21696 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21697 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21698 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21699 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21700 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21701 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21702 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21703 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21704 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21705 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
21706 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
21707 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21710 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
21711 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
21712 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
21713 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
21714 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
21715 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
21716 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
21717 part of ticket 3076.
21718 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
21719 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
21720 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
21724 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
21725 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
21726 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
21727 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
21728 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
21729 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
21730 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
21731 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
21733 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
21734 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
21735 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
21736 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
21737 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
21738 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
21739 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
21740 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
21741 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
21742 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
21743 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
21744 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
21745 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21748 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
21749 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
21750 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
21751 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
21752 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21753 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21754 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21756 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
21757 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
21758 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
21759 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
21760 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
21761 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
21762 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
21763 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
21764 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
21765 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
21766 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21767 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21768 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21769 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21770 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21771 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21773 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21774 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21776 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21777 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21779 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21780 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21782 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21783 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21784 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21786 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
21787 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
21788 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
21789 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
21790 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21791 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
21792 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
21793 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
21794 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
21795 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21796 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21798 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
21799 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
21800 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
21801 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21802 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21803 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21804 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21805 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21806 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21807 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21808 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21809 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21810 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21813 o Removed features:
21814 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
21815 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
21816 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
21820 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
21821 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
21822 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
21823 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
21824 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
21825 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
21827 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
21828 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21829 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
21832 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21833 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21834 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21835 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21836 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21837 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21838 zero-copy transports where available.
21839 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
21840 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
21841 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
21842 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
21843 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
21844 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
21845 debug it as it breaks.
21846 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21847 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
21848 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
21849 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
21850 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21851 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
21852 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
21853 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
21854 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
21855 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
21856 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
21857 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
21858 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
21859 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
21860 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
21861 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
21862 PortForwarding option.
21863 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
21864 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
21865 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
21866 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
21867 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
21868 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
21869 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
21872 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21873 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21874 Implements enhancement 1668.
21875 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
21877 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21878 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21879 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21880 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21881 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21882 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21883 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21885 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21886 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21887 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21888 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21889 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21890 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21891 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21893 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21894 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21895 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21896 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21897 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21898 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21899 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21901 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
21902 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
21903 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
21904 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
21905 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21906 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
21907 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
21908 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
21909 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
21910 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
21911 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
21912 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21913 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
21914 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
21915 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
21918 o Minor features (controller):
21919 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21920 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21921 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21922 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21923 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21924 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21925 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21928 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21929 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21930 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21931 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21932 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21933 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
21934 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
21935 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21937 o Minor packaging issues:
21938 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
21939 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21941 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21942 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21943 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21944 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21945 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21946 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21947 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21948 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21949 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21950 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21951 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21952 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21953 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21955 o Removed features:
21956 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21957 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21958 are no longer in use as servers.
21960 o Documentation fixes:
21961 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21962 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
21963 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
21967 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
21968 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
21969 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
21970 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
21971 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
21972 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
21973 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
21974 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
21975 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
21976 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
21979 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
21980 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
21981 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
21982 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21983 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
21984 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
21985 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
21986 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
21987 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
21988 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21989 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
21990 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
21991 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21992 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
21993 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
21994 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
21996 o Security and stability fixes:
21997 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
21998 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
21999 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
22000 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
22001 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22002 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22003 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22004 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22005 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22006 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22007 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22008 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22009 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22010 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22011 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22012 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22015 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22016 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22017 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22018 contributions to the network.
22020 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22021 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22022 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
22023 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22024 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22025 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22026 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22027 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22028 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22029 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22030 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22031 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22032 connections to directory servers.
22033 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22034 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22035 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22036 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22037 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22038 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22039 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22040 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22041 information, or fetch directory information.
22042 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22043 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22044 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22045 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22046 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22047 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22048 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22049 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22050 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22051 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22052 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22053 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22054 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22055 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22056 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22057 reachability self-tests.
22058 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22059 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22060 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22061 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
22062 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22063 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22064 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22066 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22067 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22068 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
22069 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
22070 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
22071 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22072 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
22073 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
22074 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
22075 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
22076 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22079 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
22080 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
22081 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
22082 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
22083 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
22084 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22085 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
22086 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22087 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
22088 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
22089 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
22090 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22091 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
22092 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
22093 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22094 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22095 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22097 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
22098 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
22099 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
22100 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
22101 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22102 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
22103 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22104 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
22105 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22106 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
22107 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
22108 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
22109 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
22110 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
22111 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
22112 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22113 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
22114 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
22115 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
22116 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
22119 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22120 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22121 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22122 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22123 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22124 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22125 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22126 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22127 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22128 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22129 by fix for bug 3000.
22130 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22131 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22133 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22134 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
22135 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
22136 send a body too). Since only server versions before
22137 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
22138 keep the workaround in place.
22139 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
22140 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
22141 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
22142 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
22143 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
22144 want to do it differently.
22145 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22146 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22147 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22148 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
22149 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
22153 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
22154 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
22155 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
22156 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
22157 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
22160 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22161 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22162 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
22163 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
22164 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
22166 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22167 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
22168 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22169 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22170 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22171 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22172 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22173 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22174 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22175 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22176 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22177 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22180 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22181 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22182 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22183 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22184 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22185 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22186 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22188 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
22189 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
22190 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
22191 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
22192 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
22193 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
22194 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
22195 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
22196 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
22197 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
22198 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
22199 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
22200 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
22201 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
22202 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
22203 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
22204 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22205 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
22206 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
22207 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
22208 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
22209 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22210 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22213 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22214 networkstatus vote.
22215 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22216 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
22217 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
22219 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22220 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22221 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22222 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22224 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22225 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22226 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22227 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22230 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
22231 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22233 o Documentation changes:
22234 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
22235 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
22237 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
22240 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
22241 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
22242 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
22243 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
22244 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
22245 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
22248 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22249 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22250 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22251 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22252 the rest of bug 1074.
22253 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22254 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22255 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22256 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22257 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22258 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22259 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22260 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22261 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22262 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22263 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22264 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22265 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22266 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22269 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22270 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
22271 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22272 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22273 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22274 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22275 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22276 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22277 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22278 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22279 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22280 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22281 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22282 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22284 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22285 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22286 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22287 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22288 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22289 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22291 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
22292 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
22293 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
22294 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
22295 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
22296 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
22297 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
22298 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
22299 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
22300 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22301 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
22302 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
22303 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
22304 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
22305 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
22306 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
22307 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
22308 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
22309 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
22310 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
22311 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
22312 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
22313 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
22314 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22315 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
22316 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
22318 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22319 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22320 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
22321 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
22322 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
22323 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
22325 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22326 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22327 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22329 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22330 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
22331 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
22332 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
22333 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
22334 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
22335 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
22336 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22337 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
22338 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
22339 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
22340 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
22341 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
22345 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
22346 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
22347 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22348 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
22349 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22350 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22351 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22352 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22353 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22354 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22355 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22356 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
22358 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22360 o Minor features (log subsystem):
22361 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22362 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22363 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22365 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22366 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22368 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22369 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22370 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22373 o Packaging changes:
22374 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22375 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22376 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22379 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
22380 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
22381 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
22382 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22383 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22384 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
22387 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22388 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22389 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22390 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22391 the rest of bug 1074.
22392 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22393 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22394 Found by "piebeer".
22395 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22396 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22397 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22398 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22399 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22400 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22401 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22404 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22406 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22409 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22410 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22411 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
22412 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22413 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22414 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22415 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22416 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22417 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22418 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22419 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22421 o Packaging changes:
22422 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22423 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22424 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22425 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
22426 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
22427 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22430 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
22431 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
22432 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
22433 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22434 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22435 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
22438 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22439 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22440 Found by "piebeer".
22441 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
22442 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
22443 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
22444 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
22447 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22449 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22450 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22451 Implements ticket 2432.
22454 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22455 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22456 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
22459 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
22460 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
22461 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
22462 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
22463 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
22464 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22466 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22467 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22468 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22469 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22471 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22472 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22473 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22474 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22475 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22476 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22477 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22478 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22480 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22481 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22482 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22483 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22484 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22485 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22486 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22487 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22488 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22489 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22490 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22491 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22492 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22493 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22496 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22497 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22498 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22499 bug reported by doorss.
22500 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22501 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22502 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22503 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22504 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22506 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22507 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22508 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22509 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
22510 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22512 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
22513 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22514 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22516 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
22517 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22518 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22519 Automake 1.7 or later.
22520 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22521 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22522 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22523 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22525 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22526 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
22527 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
22530 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22531 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22532 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22533 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22535 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22536 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
22537 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
22538 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22539 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22540 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22541 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
22542 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
22543 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
22545 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22546 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22547 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22550 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22551 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
22552 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
22553 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
22554 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
22555 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
22556 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22557 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22558 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
22559 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
22560 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
22561 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
22562 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
22564 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22565 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
22569 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
22570 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
22571 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
22572 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
22573 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22575 o Major bugfixes (security):
22576 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22577 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22578 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22580 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22581 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22582 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22583 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22584 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22585 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22586 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22587 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22589 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22590 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22591 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22592 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22593 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22594 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22595 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22596 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22597 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22598 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22599 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22600 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22601 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22602 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22605 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22606 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22607 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22608 bug reported by doorss.
22609 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22610 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22611 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22612 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22613 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22615 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22616 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22617 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22618 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
22619 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22620 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22621 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22622 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22623 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22626 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22627 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22630 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22631 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22632 Automake 1.7 or later.
22635 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
22636 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22637 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
22638 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
22639 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
22642 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22643 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22644 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22645 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22646 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22647 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22648 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22649 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
22650 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
22651 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
22652 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
22654 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22655 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22656 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22657 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22659 o Directory authority changes:
22660 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22663 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
22664 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
22665 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
22666 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
22667 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
22668 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22669 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
22670 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
22671 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
22674 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22675 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22676 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22677 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22678 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22679 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22680 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22681 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22682 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22683 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22687 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
22688 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22689 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
22690 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
22694 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22695 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22696 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22697 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22699 o Directory authority changes:
22700 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22703 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22706 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
22707 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22708 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
22709 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
22710 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
22713 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22714 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22715 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22716 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22717 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22718 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22719 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22720 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22721 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22722 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22723 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22724 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22725 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22726 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22727 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22728 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22729 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22730 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22731 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22732 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22733 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22734 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22735 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22738 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
22739 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
22740 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
22741 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
22743 o New directory authorities:
22744 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22748 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
22749 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
22750 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
22752 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22753 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22754 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22755 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22756 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22757 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22759 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22760 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22761 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22764 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22765 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22766 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22767 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22768 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22769 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22770 Patch from mingw-san.
22773 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22774 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22775 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22776 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
22777 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
22778 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
22781 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
22782 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22783 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
22786 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22787 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22788 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22789 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22790 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22793 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
22794 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
22795 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
22796 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
22797 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
22798 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
22799 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
22800 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
22801 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
22804 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
22805 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
22806 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
22807 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
22808 to a stable release.
22811 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22812 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22813 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22814 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22815 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22816 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22817 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22818 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22819 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22820 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22821 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22822 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22823 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22824 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22825 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22826 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22827 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22828 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22829 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22830 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22831 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22832 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
22833 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
22834 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
22835 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22836 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
22837 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
22838 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
22839 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
22840 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
22841 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
22844 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22845 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
22846 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
22847 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
22848 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
22849 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
22850 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22851 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22852 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22853 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22854 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22855 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22856 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22857 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22858 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
22859 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
22860 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
22862 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22863 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22864 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
22865 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
22866 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
22868 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
22869 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
22870 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
22871 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
22874 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22875 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22876 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22877 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22878 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22879 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22880 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22881 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22883 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22884 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
22885 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
22886 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
22887 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
22888 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
22889 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
22890 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
22891 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
22892 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
22893 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
22894 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
22895 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
22896 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
22897 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
22900 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
22901 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
22902 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
22903 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
22904 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
22905 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
22906 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
22907 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
22908 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
22911 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22912 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22913 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22914 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22915 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
22917 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
22918 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22919 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22920 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22921 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22922 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22923 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22924 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22925 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22926 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22927 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22928 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22929 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22930 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22932 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22933 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
22935 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
22936 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22937 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
22938 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
22939 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
22940 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
22941 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
22942 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
22943 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
22944 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
22945 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
22946 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
22947 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
22948 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
22949 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
22950 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
22951 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
22952 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22954 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
22955 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
22956 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
22957 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
22958 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
22959 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
22960 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
22961 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
22962 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
22963 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
22964 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
22965 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
22966 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
22968 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
22969 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
22970 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
22971 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22974 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22975 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22976 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22977 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22978 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
22979 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
22980 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
22981 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
22982 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
22983 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
22984 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22985 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22986 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22987 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
22988 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
22989 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
22990 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
22991 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
22992 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
22995 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22996 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
22997 based on the time during which we were active and not in
22998 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
22999 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23000 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23001 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23002 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23004 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23005 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
23006 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
23007 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
23008 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
23009 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
23010 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
23011 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
23012 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
23013 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23016 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
23017 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
23018 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
23019 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
23021 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23022 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23023 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23024 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23025 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23026 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23027 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23028 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23029 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23030 the longest-lived bug prize.
23031 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23032 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23033 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23034 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23035 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23036 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23038 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23039 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23040 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23041 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23042 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23043 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23047 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23048 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23049 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23050 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23051 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23052 got suppressed since the last warning.
23053 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23054 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23055 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23056 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23057 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23058 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23059 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23060 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23061 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23062 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23063 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23064 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23065 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23066 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23067 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23068 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23069 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23070 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23071 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23073 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23074 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23075 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23077 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23078 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
23079 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
23080 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
23081 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
23082 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
23083 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23084 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23085 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23086 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23087 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23088 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23089 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23090 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23091 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23093 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23094 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23095 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23096 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23097 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23098 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23099 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23101 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23102 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23103 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23104 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23105 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23108 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23109 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
23110 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
23111 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
23112 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
23113 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
23114 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
23115 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
23116 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
23117 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
23118 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
23119 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
23120 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
23121 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
23122 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
23123 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
23124 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
23125 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
23128 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23131 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
23132 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
23133 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
23134 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
23135 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
23139 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23140 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23141 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23142 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23143 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23144 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23145 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23146 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
23147 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
23148 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
23149 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
23150 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
23151 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
23152 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
23153 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
23154 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23155 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23158 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23159 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23160 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23161 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23162 they first get the Guard flag.
23163 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
23167 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23168 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23169 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23170 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23171 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23172 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23173 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23174 Patch from mingw-san.
23175 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23176 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23178 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23179 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23180 Implements enhancement 1790.
23182 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23183 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23184 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23185 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23186 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23187 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23188 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23189 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23190 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23191 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23192 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23193 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23194 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23195 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
23196 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23197 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23198 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23199 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23200 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
23201 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
23203 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23204 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23205 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23206 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23207 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23208 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23209 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23210 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
23211 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23212 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23213 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23214 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23215 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
23217 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23218 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23219 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23220 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
23221 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
23222 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23224 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23225 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
23226 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
23227 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
23228 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
23229 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
23230 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
23231 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23232 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
23233 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
23234 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
23235 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
23237 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
23238 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
23239 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
23240 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
23241 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
23242 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
23243 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
23245 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
23247 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
23248 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23249 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
23250 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
23251 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
23252 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
23254 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23255 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23256 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23257 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23258 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
23259 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
23260 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
23261 statistics code to be more easily tested.
23262 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23263 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23264 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23267 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
23268 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
23269 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
23270 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
23271 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
23272 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
23276 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
23277 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
23278 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
23279 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23280 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23281 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
23282 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
23283 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
23284 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
23285 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
23286 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
23287 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
23288 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
23290 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
23291 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
23292 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
23293 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
23294 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
23295 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
23296 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
23297 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
23298 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
23299 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
23300 can be controlled by the consensus.
23303 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
23304 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
23305 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
23306 more accurate data for many African countries.
23307 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
23308 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
23309 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23310 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23311 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23312 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23313 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23314 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23315 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23316 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23317 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23318 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23320 o New directory authorities:
23321 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23325 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23326 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23327 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23328 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23329 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23330 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23331 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23332 what should go in a patch.
23333 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23334 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23335 over our stored history.
23336 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
23337 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
23338 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
23339 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
23340 file. Fixes bug 1296.
23341 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23342 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23343 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23347 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23349 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
23350 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
23351 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23352 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23353 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23354 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
23355 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
23356 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
23357 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
23358 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
23359 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
23360 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23361 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23362 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23363 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23364 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23365 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23366 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23367 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23368 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23369 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23370 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23371 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
23372 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23373 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
23374 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23377 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23378 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23379 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23380 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23381 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23383 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23384 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23387 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23388 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23389 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23390 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23391 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23392 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23393 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23394 their directory fetches over TLS).
23395 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23396 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23397 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23398 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23399 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23400 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23401 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23402 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23405 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23406 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23410 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23411 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23412 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23413 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23414 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23415 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23416 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23419 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
23420 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23421 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23422 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23423 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23426 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23427 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23428 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23429 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23430 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23431 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23432 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23433 their directory fetches over TLS).
23436 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23437 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23439 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23440 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23441 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23442 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23443 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23444 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23445 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23446 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23447 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23448 hour of their uptime.
23451 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
23452 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
23453 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
23457 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23458 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23459 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23460 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23461 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23462 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23464 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
23465 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
23466 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
23468 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
23469 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
23473 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23474 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
23475 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23479 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
23480 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
23481 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23484 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23485 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23486 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23487 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23488 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
23489 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
23490 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
23491 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
23492 about the option without breaking older ones.
23493 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23494 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23495 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23496 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23499 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
23500 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
23501 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
23502 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
23504 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23505 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
23506 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23509 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
23510 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
23512 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
23513 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
23514 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
23515 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
23516 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
23517 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
23518 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23519 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
23520 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
23521 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
23522 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
23525 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23526 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23527 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23528 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23529 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23530 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23531 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23534 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
23535 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
23536 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
23537 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
23538 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
23539 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
23542 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23543 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23544 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23545 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
23547 o Major features (performance):
23548 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23549 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23550 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
23551 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
23552 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
23553 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
23554 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
23556 o Minor features (performance):
23557 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23558 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23559 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23560 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23561 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23565 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
23566 speeds up the build considerably.
23568 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23569 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
23570 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23571 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
23572 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23573 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
23574 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
23575 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23577 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
23578 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23579 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23581 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23582 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23583 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23584 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23586 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23587 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23588 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23589 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
23590 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
23591 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
23594 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
23595 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
23596 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
23598 o Directory authority changes:
23599 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
23600 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
23601 service directory authority) from the list.
23604 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23605 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23606 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23607 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23608 libraries in a security patch.
23609 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23610 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23611 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23612 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23614 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23615 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23616 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23617 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23618 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23619 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23620 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23623 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
23624 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
23625 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
23626 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
23627 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
23628 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
23629 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
23630 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
23631 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
23632 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23633 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23634 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23635 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23637 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23638 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23639 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23640 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23641 control-spec.txt said they were.
23642 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23643 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23644 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23645 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23646 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23648 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23649 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23650 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23651 produce nicer HTML.
23652 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
23653 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
23654 iPhone SDK versions.
23655 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23656 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23657 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23658 projects directory in svn.
23659 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
23660 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
23661 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
23662 high latency links.
23665 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23666 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23667 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23669 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23670 to the circuit build timeout.
23671 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23672 arguments we do not recognize.
23673 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23674 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23675 open() without checking it.
23678 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23679 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23680 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23681 several minor potential security bugs.
23684 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23685 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23686 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23687 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23688 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23689 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23690 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23693 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23694 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23696 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23697 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23698 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23699 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23703 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23704 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23708 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23709 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23710 customized patches to run/build.
23713 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23714 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23715 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23718 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23719 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23720 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23721 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23722 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23723 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23724 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23725 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23728 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23729 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23730 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23731 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23732 libraries in a security patch.
23733 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23734 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23735 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23736 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23739 o Directory authority changes:
23740 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
23741 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
23742 service directory authority) from the list.
23745 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23746 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23749 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23750 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23751 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23752 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23753 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23756 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
23757 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
23758 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
23762 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
23763 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
23764 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
23765 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
23766 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23769 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23770 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23771 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23775 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
23776 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
23777 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
23778 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
23779 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
23781 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
23782 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
23784 o Directory authority changes:
23785 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23788 o Major features (performance):
23789 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23790 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23791 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23792 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23793 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23794 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23795 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23796 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
23797 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
23798 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23799 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
23800 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23801 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23803 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23804 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23805 but never per-conn write limits.
23806 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23807 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23808 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23809 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23811 o Major features (relay selection options):
23812 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
23813 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
23814 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
23815 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23816 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23817 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23818 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23820 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
23821 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
23823 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23824 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23825 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23826 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23827 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23828 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23829 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23830 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23831 the network changes.
23834 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23835 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23836 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23839 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23840 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23841 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23842 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23843 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23844 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23845 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23846 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23847 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23848 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23849 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23850 generated while acting as a relay.
23851 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
23852 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23853 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23854 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23855 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23856 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23858 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
23859 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
23860 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23861 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
23862 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
23863 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
23866 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
23867 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
23868 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
23870 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23871 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23872 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23874 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23875 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23877 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
23878 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23879 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23881 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23882 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23885 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23886 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23887 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23888 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
23889 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
23890 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
23891 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23892 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23893 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23895 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23898 o Removed features:
23899 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23900 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
23901 hidden service usage.
23904 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23905 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23906 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23907 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23908 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23910 o Directory authority changes:
23911 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23915 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23916 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23917 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23920 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23921 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23922 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23923 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23924 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23927 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23928 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23929 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23930 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23931 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23932 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23933 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23936 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23937 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23938 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23939 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23940 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23941 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23943 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23944 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23947 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
23948 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
23949 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
23950 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
23951 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
23952 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
23955 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23956 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23957 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23959 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
23960 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23961 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
23962 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23963 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23964 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23965 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23966 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23967 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23968 hash algorithm in the future.
23969 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23970 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23971 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23972 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23973 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23974 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23975 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23976 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23977 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23980 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23981 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23982 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
23983 won't work unless we say we are.
23986 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23987 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23988 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23989 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23990 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23991 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23992 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23993 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23994 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23995 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23996 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23997 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23998 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23999 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
24000 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
24001 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24002 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24003 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24004 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
24005 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
24006 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
24007 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
24010 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24011 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24012 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24013 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24015 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24016 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24018 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24019 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24020 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24021 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24024 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24025 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24026 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24027 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24028 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24030 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24031 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24033 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24034 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24035 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24038 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24039 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24040 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24042 o New directory authorities:
24043 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24045 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24048 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24049 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24051 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24052 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24053 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24054 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24055 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24056 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24057 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24058 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24059 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24060 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24061 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24062 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24063 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24064 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24065 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24066 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24067 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24069 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24070 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24071 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24073 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24074 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24078 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24079 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24080 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24081 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24082 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24085 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
24086 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24089 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24091 o Directory authorities:
24092 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
24096 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
24097 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
24098 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
24099 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
24100 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
24103 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
24104 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
24105 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
24106 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
24108 o New directory authorities:
24109 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24112 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
24113 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
24114 SSL handshake issues.
24115 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
24116 during the TLS handshake.
24117 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
24118 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
24119 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
24120 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
24121 none of which are very big.
24124 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
24126 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
24127 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24128 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
24129 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
24130 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24131 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24132 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24133 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24136 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24137 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
24138 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
24139 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
24140 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
24143 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
24144 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24147 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
24148 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
24151 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
24152 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
24153 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24156 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
24157 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
24158 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
24159 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
24160 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
24161 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
24164 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
24165 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
24166 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
24167 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
24168 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
24169 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
24170 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
24171 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
24172 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
24173 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
24174 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
24175 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
24176 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
24177 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
24178 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
24179 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24180 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24181 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24184 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24185 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24189 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24190 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24191 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24192 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
24193 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
24194 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24195 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24196 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24197 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24198 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24199 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24200 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24201 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24202 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24203 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24204 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24205 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24206 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24207 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24208 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24209 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24211 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24212 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24213 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
24214 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24215 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24216 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24218 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24219 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24220 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24223 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24224 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24225 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24226 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24227 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24228 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
24231 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
24232 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
24233 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
24234 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
24235 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
24238 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
24239 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
24240 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
24243 o New directory authorities:
24244 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24248 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
24249 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
24250 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
24251 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
24252 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
24255 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24256 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24257 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24258 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24259 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24262 o New options for gathering stats safely:
24263 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
24264 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
24265 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
24266 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
24267 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
24268 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
24269 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
24270 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24271 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
24273 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
24274 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
24275 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24276 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
24278 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
24279 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
24280 their extra-info documents.
24283 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
24284 source files Tor was built with.
24285 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
24286 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24287 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24288 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24289 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
24290 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
24292 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
24293 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
24294 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
24295 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
24296 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
24298 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
24299 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
24302 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24303 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24304 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24305 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
24306 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24308 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24309 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24311 o Deprecated and removed features:
24312 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24313 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24314 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24315 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24316 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24317 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24318 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24319 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24321 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24322 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24323 via application-level web tricks.
24325 o Packaging changes:
24326 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
24327 installer bundles. See
24328 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
24329 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
24330 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
24331 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
24332 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
24333 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
24334 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
24335 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
24336 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
24337 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
24338 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
24339 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
24342 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24343 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24344 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
24347 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24348 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24349 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24352 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24353 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24354 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24355 and confuse fewer users.
24358 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24359 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24360 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24361 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24362 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24363 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24364 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24367 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24368 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24369 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24370 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24371 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24372 other features and bug fixes.
24375 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24378 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
24379 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
24380 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
24381 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
24382 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
24385 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
24386 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
24387 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
24388 failure message (oops).
24391 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
24392 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
24393 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
24394 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
24398 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24399 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24400 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24401 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24402 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24403 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24404 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24405 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24406 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24407 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24408 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24409 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
24410 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
24411 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
24412 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24415 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
24416 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
24417 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24418 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24419 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24420 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
24421 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24422 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24423 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24424 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24425 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24426 Workaround for bug 1024.
24427 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
24431 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24432 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24433 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24436 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24438 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24439 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24440 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24441 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24442 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24445 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24446 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24447 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24448 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24449 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24450 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24451 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24452 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24453 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24454 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24457 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24458 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24459 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24460 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24461 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24462 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24463 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24464 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24467 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
24468 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
24469 a bunch of minor bugs.
24472 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24473 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24474 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24476 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
24477 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24478 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24479 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
24481 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24485 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24486 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24487 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24489 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24490 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24492 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24493 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24495 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24496 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24497 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24498 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24499 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24500 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24501 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24502 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24504 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24505 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
24506 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
24508 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
24509 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
24510 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
24511 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
24512 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
24516 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
24517 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
24518 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
24519 of more minor bugs.
24521 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24522 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24523 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24524 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24526 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24527 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24528 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24529 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24530 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24531 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24532 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24533 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24534 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24535 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24536 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24537 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24538 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24539 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24540 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24541 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24542 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24544 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24545 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24546 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24547 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24549 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24550 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
24551 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
24554 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
24555 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
24556 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
24557 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
24558 addresses to fall out of the directory.
24561 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24562 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24563 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24564 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24566 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
24567 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24568 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24569 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24570 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24571 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24572 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24573 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24574 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24575 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24576 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24577 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24578 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24579 patch by Sebastian.
24580 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24581 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24584 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24585 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24586 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24587 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24588 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24589 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24591 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
24592 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
24593 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
24594 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
24595 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
24597 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24600 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
24601 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
24603 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
24604 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
24605 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24606 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24607 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24608 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24610 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
24611 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24612 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
24613 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
24614 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
24615 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24616 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24617 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24618 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24619 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24620 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24621 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24625 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
24626 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
24627 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
24630 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
24631 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
24632 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24634 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
24635 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24636 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24637 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24638 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24639 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24640 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24641 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24642 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24643 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24644 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24645 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24646 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24647 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24648 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24649 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24650 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24651 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24652 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24653 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24654 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24655 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24656 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24657 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24658 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24659 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24661 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24662 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24663 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24664 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24665 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24666 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24667 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24668 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24669 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24670 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24672 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24673 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
24674 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
24675 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
24676 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
24679 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
24681 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24682 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24683 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24684 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
24687 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24688 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24689 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24690 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24691 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24693 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24694 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24695 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24696 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24699 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24700 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24701 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24702 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24703 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24704 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24705 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24706 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24709 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24710 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24711 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24712 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24715 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
24716 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
24717 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
24718 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24719 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
24720 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
24723 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24724 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24725 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24726 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24727 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24728 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24731 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
24732 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
24733 reported by Matt Edman.
24734 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
24736 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24737 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24738 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24739 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24741 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
24742 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24743 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24744 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24745 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24746 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24747 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24748 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24749 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24750 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24751 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24752 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24753 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24754 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24755 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
24756 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24757 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24758 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24759 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24762 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
24763 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24764 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24765 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24768 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24769 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24770 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24773 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24774 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24775 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24776 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24778 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24779 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24780 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24783 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24784 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24787 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24788 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24789 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24790 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24791 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24792 reported by "wood".
24793 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24794 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24795 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24796 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24797 identify a connection.
24798 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24799 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24800 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24801 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24802 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24803 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24804 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24805 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24806 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24807 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24809 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24810 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24811 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24812 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24813 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24814 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24815 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24818 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24819 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24821 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24822 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24823 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24824 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24825 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24826 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24827 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24828 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24830 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24831 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24832 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24833 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24834 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24835 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24836 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24837 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24838 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24839 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24840 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24841 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24842 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24843 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24844 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24845 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24846 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24847 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24848 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24849 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24850 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24851 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24852 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24853 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24854 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24855 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24856 840. Patch from rovv.
24857 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24858 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24859 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24861 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24862 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24863 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24864 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24865 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24866 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24867 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24869 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24870 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24871 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24874 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24875 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24877 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24878 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24879 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24880 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24881 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24882 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24883 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24884 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24885 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24887 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24889 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24890 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24894 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
24895 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
24896 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
24897 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
24898 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
24899 have had some time to upgrade.)
24902 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24903 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24906 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24907 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24908 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
24909 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
24910 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24913 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24914 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24916 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
24917 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24918 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24919 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24920 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24921 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24924 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24925 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24926 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
24927 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
24928 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
24929 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24930 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24934 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
24935 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
24936 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
24937 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
24938 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
24939 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
24940 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
24943 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24944 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
24945 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
24946 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
24947 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
24949 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24950 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24951 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24952 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24953 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24954 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24955 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24956 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24957 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24958 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24962 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24963 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24964 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24966 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
24967 without support for deprecated functions.
24968 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
24970 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24971 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24972 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24973 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24974 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24975 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24976 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24977 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24978 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24979 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24980 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24981 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24982 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24983 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24984 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24985 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24986 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24987 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24988 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24989 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24990 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24991 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24992 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24994 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24995 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
24996 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
24997 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
24998 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
24999 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
25001 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
25002 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
25003 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
25004 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
25005 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
25007 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
25008 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
25009 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
25011 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
25012 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
25015 o Deprecated and removed features:
25016 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25017 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25018 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25021 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25022 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25023 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25024 with log.h on Android.
25025 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25026 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25029 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
25030 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
25032 o New directory authorities:
25033 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
25037 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
25038 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
25039 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
25040 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
25041 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
25042 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25045 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
25046 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
25047 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
25048 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25049 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25050 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25051 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25052 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25053 reported by "wood".
25054 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25055 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
25056 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25057 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25060 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
25061 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
25063 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
25064 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
25065 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
25066 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
25067 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25068 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25069 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25070 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25071 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
25072 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
25073 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25074 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
25075 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
25076 Implements proposal 148.
25077 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25078 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25079 system to do it for us.
25080 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25081 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
25082 this fix will be slightly helpful.
25083 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25084 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
25085 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
25086 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
25087 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
25088 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25089 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25090 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25091 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25094 o Minor features (controller):
25095 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25096 been fetched and validated.
25097 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25098 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
25099 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25100 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25101 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
25102 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
25105 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
25106 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25107 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25108 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25109 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25111 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25112 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25113 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25114 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25115 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25116 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25117 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25118 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25119 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25121 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25122 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
25123 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
25124 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
25125 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25126 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
25127 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
25128 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25130 o Deprecated and removed features:
25131 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25133 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25134 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25135 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25137 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25138 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25139 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25141 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25142 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25143 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25144 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25145 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25146 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25149 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
25150 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
25151 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
25152 fixes a variety of other issues.
25155 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
25156 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
25157 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
25158 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
25161 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
25162 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
25163 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
25164 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25167 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25168 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25169 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
25173 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
25175 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25176 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25177 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25178 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
25179 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
25180 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
25181 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25183 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25184 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25185 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
25186 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25187 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25188 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25190 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25191 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25192 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25193 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25194 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25195 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25196 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25197 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25198 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25199 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
25201 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25205 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25206 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25207 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25209 o Minor features (controller):
25210 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
25214 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25215 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25216 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25217 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25218 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25219 variety of other issues.
25222 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25223 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25224 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25225 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25226 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25227 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25228 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25229 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25230 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25231 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25232 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25233 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25236 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25237 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25239 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25240 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25241 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25242 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25243 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25244 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25245 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25246 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25247 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25248 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25249 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25250 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25251 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25252 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25253 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25257 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25258 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25259 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25260 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25261 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25262 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25263 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25264 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25265 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25266 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25267 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25268 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25269 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25270 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25271 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25272 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25273 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25274 list. It has been gone for many months.
25275 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25276 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25277 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25280 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25281 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25282 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25285 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
25286 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25287 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25288 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25289 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
25290 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25291 variety of other issues.
25294 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25295 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25296 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25297 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25298 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25299 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25300 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25301 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25302 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25303 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25304 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25305 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
25306 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
25307 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
25310 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25311 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25312 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25313 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25314 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25315 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25316 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25317 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25318 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25320 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
25321 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
25323 o Hidden service performance improvements:
25324 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25325 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25326 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25327 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25328 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25329 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25330 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25331 faster after restart.
25334 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
25335 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
25336 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
25337 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25338 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25339 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25340 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25341 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25342 840. Patch from rovv.
25343 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25344 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25345 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25346 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25347 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25348 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25349 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25350 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25351 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25353 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
25354 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
25355 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25356 have already been marked for close.
25357 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
25358 introduction points.
25359 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25360 memory performance during directory parsing.
25361 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25362 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25363 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25364 because of a pending download.
25367 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
25368 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
25369 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
25370 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25373 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
25374 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
25375 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
25376 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
25377 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
25378 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
25379 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
25380 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
25381 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
25382 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
25383 lookups more reliable.
25384 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
25385 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
25386 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
25387 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
25388 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
25389 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
25390 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25393 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
25394 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
25395 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25396 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25397 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25398 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
25399 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
25400 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
25401 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
25402 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
25403 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25405 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25406 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25407 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25408 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25409 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25410 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25411 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
25412 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
25413 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25416 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
25417 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25418 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25419 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25420 locked down these days.
25421 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25422 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25423 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25424 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25425 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
25427 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25428 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25429 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25430 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25431 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25432 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25433 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25434 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25435 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25436 people find host:port too confusing.
25437 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25438 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25439 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25442 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25444 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25445 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25446 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25447 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25448 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
25450 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
25451 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
25452 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25453 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25454 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25455 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25456 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25457 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25458 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25459 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25460 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25461 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25463 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25464 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25465 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25466 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
25467 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25468 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
25469 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25470 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25471 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25473 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25474 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25475 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25476 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25477 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25478 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25479 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25480 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25481 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25482 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25483 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25484 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25485 list. It has been gone for many months.
25487 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25488 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25489 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25490 actual mistakes we're making here.
25491 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25492 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25493 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25494 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25497 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25498 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25499 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25500 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25503 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25504 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25505 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25506 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25507 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25508 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25510 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25511 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25512 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25513 pointed out by rovv.
25516 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25517 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25518 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25519 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25520 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25521 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25522 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25523 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25524 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25525 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25526 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25527 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25528 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25529 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25530 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25531 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25532 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25533 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25534 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25535 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25536 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25539 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
25540 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
25541 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
25542 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
25543 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
25544 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
25545 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25548 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
25550 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
25551 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
25552 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
25553 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
25554 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
25555 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
25556 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
25558 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
25559 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
25560 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
25561 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
25562 known descriptor before building circuits.
25564 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
25565 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25566 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25567 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25568 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25569 identify a connection.
25570 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25571 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25572 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25574 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25575 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25576 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25577 pointed out by rovv.
25580 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25581 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25582 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25583 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
25584 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
25585 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25586 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25587 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25588 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
25589 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25590 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25591 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25592 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25593 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25594 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25597 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
25598 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
25599 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
25600 answer sections match.
25601 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25602 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25605 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
25606 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25609 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
25610 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
25611 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
25613 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
25614 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
25615 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25618 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
25619 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
25620 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
25621 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
25624 o Removed features:
25625 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25626 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25629 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
25630 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
25631 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
25632 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
25633 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
25634 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
25636 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
25637 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
25638 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
25641 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
25642 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
25643 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
25644 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
25645 be sent using an "early" cell.
25648 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25649 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25650 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25651 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25652 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25653 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25654 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25657 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25658 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25659 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25660 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25661 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25662 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25663 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25664 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25665 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
25666 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
25667 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25668 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25669 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25670 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25671 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25672 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25675 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25676 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25677 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25678 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
25679 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
25680 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
25681 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
25682 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
25683 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
25685 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25686 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25687 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25688 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25689 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25692 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25693 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
25694 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
25695 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25697 o Removed features:
25698 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
25699 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25703 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25705 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
25706 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
25707 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
25710 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
25711 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
25712 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
25715 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
25716 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
25717 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
25718 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
25719 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25720 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
25721 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
25722 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
25723 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25724 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25725 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
25726 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
25727 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25728 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25729 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25730 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25731 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25732 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25733 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25734 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
25735 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
25736 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
25737 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
25740 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25741 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25743 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25744 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25745 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25746 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25747 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25748 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25749 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25751 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
25752 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
25753 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
25754 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
25755 found by Geoff Goodell.
25758 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
25759 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
25760 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
25761 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
25762 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
25763 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
25766 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
25767 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
25768 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
25771 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
25772 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
25773 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
25774 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
25775 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25776 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
25777 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
25778 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
25779 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25780 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25781 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
25782 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
25783 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
25784 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25787 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25788 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
25789 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
25791 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25792 fingerprints with or without space.
25793 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25794 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25795 partway through and wants to catch up.
25796 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
25797 state to start out in.
25800 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
25801 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
25802 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25803 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
25804 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
25807 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
25808 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
25809 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
25810 some of the connection attempts fail.
25811 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
25812 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
25813 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
25814 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
25815 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
25816 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
25818 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
25819 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
25820 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
25823 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
25824 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
25825 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
25826 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
25827 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
25828 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
25829 and adds a variety of smaller features.
25832 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
25833 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
25834 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
25835 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
25837 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
25838 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
25839 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
25840 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
25842 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
25843 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
25844 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
25845 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
25846 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
25847 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
25848 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
25851 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
25852 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
25853 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
25854 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25855 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25857 o Memory fixes and improvements:
25858 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25859 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25860 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25861 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25862 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25863 on a typical directory cache.
25864 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25865 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25866 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25867 and may reduce fragmentation.
25868 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25869 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25870 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25872 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25873 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25874 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25876 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25877 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
25881 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25882 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25883 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25884 done that for a long time.
25885 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25886 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25887 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25888 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25891 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25892 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25893 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25894 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25895 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25896 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25898 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25899 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25900 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25901 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25902 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25903 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25904 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25905 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25906 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25907 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25908 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25909 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25910 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25911 directory requests we should expect to see.
25912 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
25914 - Lots of new unit tests.
25915 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
25916 two parallel lists in lockstep.
25919 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
25920 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
25921 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
25924 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25925 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25926 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25927 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25928 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25929 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25930 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25933 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
25934 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
25935 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
25939 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
25940 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25941 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25944 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25945 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25946 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25948 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
25949 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
25951 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
25952 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
25953 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25954 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25955 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25956 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25957 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
25959 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
25960 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
25961 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
25962 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
25963 - Fix compile on Windows.
25966 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
25967 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
25968 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
25969 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
25970 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
25971 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
25972 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
25975 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
25976 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
25979 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25980 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25981 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
25982 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25984 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
25985 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25986 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25989 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25990 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25991 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25992 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
25996 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
25997 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
25998 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
25999 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
26001 o Major security fixes:
26002 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
26003 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
26004 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
26005 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
26006 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
26009 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
26010 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26013 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
26014 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
26017 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
26018 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
26021 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
26022 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
26023 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
26026 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
26027 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26030 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
26031 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
26032 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
26033 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
26034 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
26036 o New directory authorities:
26037 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
26038 it has been down for months.
26039 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
26043 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
26044 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
26046 o Minor features (security):
26047 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
26048 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
26049 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
26052 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
26053 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
26054 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
26055 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
26056 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
26057 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
26058 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
26059 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
26060 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26062 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
26063 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
26064 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26065 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
26066 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26067 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
26068 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26069 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
26070 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
26072 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26073 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26074 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26075 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26076 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
26077 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
26078 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
26079 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26080 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26081 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26082 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26083 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
26084 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
26085 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
26086 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
26087 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
26088 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
26089 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26090 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26093 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
26094 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26095 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
26096 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
26099 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
26100 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
26101 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
26102 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
26105 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
26106 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26107 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
26108 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
26109 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
26112 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
26113 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
26114 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
26115 certain censored countries by default again.
26118 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
26119 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26120 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
26121 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
26122 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26123 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
26124 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
26125 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
26127 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26128 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26129 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26130 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26131 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26132 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26133 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26134 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26135 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26136 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26138 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26139 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
26140 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
26141 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
26142 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
26143 RelayBandwidth* values.
26144 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
26145 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
26146 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
26147 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
26148 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
26149 get_interface_address6().
26150 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
26151 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
26152 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
26154 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26155 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
26156 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
26157 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26158 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
26159 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
26160 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26161 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
26162 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
26163 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26166 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26167 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26168 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26171 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
26172 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26173 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
26174 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
26175 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
26178 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
26179 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
26180 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
26181 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
26182 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
26183 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
26184 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
26185 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
26186 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
26189 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
26190 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
26191 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
26192 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26195 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
26196 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26197 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
26198 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
26199 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
26200 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
26201 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
26204 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
26205 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
26206 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
26207 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
26208 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
26209 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
26210 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
26212 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26213 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26214 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26215 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26216 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
26219 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
26220 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
26221 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26222 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
26223 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
26224 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
26225 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26226 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
26227 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
26228 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
26229 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
26230 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
26231 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
26232 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
26233 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
26234 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26235 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
26236 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26237 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26238 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
26239 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
26240 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
26241 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
26242 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
26243 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
26244 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
26246 o Minor features (performance):
26247 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26249 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
26250 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
26251 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
26252 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
26253 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26254 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
26255 non-system include paths.
26256 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
26257 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
26260 o Minor features (other):
26261 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26263 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26264 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26265 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
26268 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
26269 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26270 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
26271 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
26273 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
26274 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
26275 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
26276 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
26277 Should fix bug 537.
26278 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26279 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26280 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26281 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
26282 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26284 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26285 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
26286 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
26287 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
26288 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
26289 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26290 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26291 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26292 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
26293 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
26294 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
26295 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
26296 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26297 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26298 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26299 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26300 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26301 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26302 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
26303 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26304 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26305 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26306 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26307 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26308 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26311 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26312 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
26313 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26317 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
26318 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
26319 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
26320 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
26321 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
26324 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
26325 Tor's x509 certificates.
26328 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
26329 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
26330 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26331 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
26332 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
26333 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26335 o Minor features (security):
26336 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
26337 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
26339 o Minor features (directory authority):
26340 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26341 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26342 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26343 bandwidthburst values.
26345 o Minor features (controller):
26346 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
26347 processes from running us out of memory.
26349 o Minor features (misc):
26350 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26351 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26352 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26353 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26355 o Deprecated features (controller):
26356 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26357 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
26358 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26361 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
26362 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
26364 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
26365 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
26366 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26367 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
26368 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
26369 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26370 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
26371 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
26373 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
26374 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26375 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26376 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26377 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
26378 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
26379 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
26380 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
26382 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
26383 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
26384 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
26385 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
26386 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26387 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
26388 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26389 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
26390 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26391 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
26392 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
26393 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26395 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26396 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
26398 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26399 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26400 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26401 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26402 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26403 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26406 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
26407 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
26408 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
26409 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
26410 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
26412 o New directory authorities:
26413 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
26417 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
26418 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
26419 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
26420 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
26421 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
26422 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
26423 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
26424 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
26428 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26429 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26430 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26431 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26432 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26433 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26434 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
26435 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
26436 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
26437 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
26440 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
26441 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
26442 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
26443 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
26447 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
26448 the request isn't encrypted.
26449 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26450 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
26451 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
26452 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
26453 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
26456 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
26457 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
26460 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
26463 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
26464 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
26465 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
26467 o New directory authorities:
26468 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
26471 o Major performance improvements:
26472 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26473 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26474 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26475 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26476 memory fragmentation.
26479 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26480 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26481 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26482 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26483 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
26484 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
26485 bodies when they receive them.
26486 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26487 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26488 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26490 o Minor performance improvements:
26491 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26492 of them were actually distinct.
26493 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
26494 interested in a given message.
26497 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
26498 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
26499 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
26500 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
26501 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
26502 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
26503 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
26504 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
26505 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
26506 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
26507 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
26509 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
26510 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
26511 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
26512 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
26513 this country" and "1 person from this country".
26514 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
26515 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
26516 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
26517 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
26518 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
26520 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26521 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
26522 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
26524 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
26525 but client versions are not.
26526 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26527 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26529 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
26530 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
26531 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
26532 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
26533 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
26535 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
26536 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
26537 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
26540 o Minor features (controller):
26541 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
26542 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26543 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26544 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26546 o Minor features (directory authorities):
26547 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
26548 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26549 running a test network on a single host.
26550 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
26551 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
26553 o Minor features (bridges):
26554 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
26555 unencrypted connections.
26557 o Minor features (other):
26558 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26559 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26560 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26561 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26564 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26565 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26566 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26567 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26570 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26571 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26572 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26573 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26574 on network address.
26577 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26578 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26579 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26580 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26581 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26582 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26583 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26584 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26585 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26586 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26587 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26588 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26591 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26592 rebuild our server descriptor.
26593 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26594 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26595 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26596 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26597 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26598 nonstandard integer types.
26599 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26600 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26601 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26602 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26603 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26605 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26606 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26607 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26608 when they receive them.
26609 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26610 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26611 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26612 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26613 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26614 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26615 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26616 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26617 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26618 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26622 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
26623 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
26624 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26627 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
26628 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
26629 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
26630 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
26631 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
26632 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
26633 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
26634 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26637 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
26638 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
26639 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
26640 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
26642 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
26643 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
26646 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26647 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26650 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
26652 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
26653 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
26655 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
26656 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
26657 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
26658 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26659 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
26660 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
26661 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
26662 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26663 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
26664 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
26668 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
26669 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
26670 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
26673 - Make the unit tests build again.
26674 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
26675 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26676 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26677 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
26678 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
26679 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26680 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
26681 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
26682 the next one as a duplicate.
26685 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
26686 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
26687 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
26688 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
26691 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
26692 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
26693 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
26696 o New directory authorities:
26697 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
26701 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
26702 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
26703 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
26704 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
26705 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
26706 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26707 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
26709 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
26710 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
26712 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26713 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26714 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
26715 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
26716 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
26717 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
26719 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
26720 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
26721 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
26722 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
26723 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
26724 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26727 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
26728 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
26729 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
26730 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
26731 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26732 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26733 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26734 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26735 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
26736 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
26737 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
26738 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
26739 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
26740 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
26741 where Tor is blocked.
26742 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
26743 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
26744 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
26745 to a file periodically.
26746 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26747 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26748 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26752 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
26753 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
26754 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
26755 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
26756 in the relevant networkstatus document.
26757 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
26758 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
26759 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26760 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
26761 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
26762 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
26763 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
26764 by Karsten Loesing.
26765 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
26766 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
26767 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
26768 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
26769 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
26770 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26771 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26772 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26773 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26774 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26775 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26776 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26777 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26778 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26779 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26780 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
26781 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
26782 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26783 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26784 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26785 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26786 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
26787 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26788 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
26789 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
26790 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26791 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
26792 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26795 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26796 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26797 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
26798 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
26799 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
26800 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
26801 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
26802 even if your DirPort isn't on.
26803 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26804 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26805 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26807 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26808 multiple controller passwords.
26809 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
26810 router based on the router's purpose.
26811 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26812 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26813 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26814 the approved-routers file.
26817 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
26818 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
26819 well as a few minor bugs.
26822 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
26823 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
26824 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
26826 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26827 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26828 rebuild our server descriptor.
26830 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26831 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
26832 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
26833 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
26834 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
26835 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
26836 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
26837 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
26838 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
26839 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
26841 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
26842 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
26843 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
26844 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
26845 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
26846 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
26847 then be flexible about families.
26850 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26851 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26852 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
26856 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
26857 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
26858 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
26859 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
26860 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
26863 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26864 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26865 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26866 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26867 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26870 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26871 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
26873 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
26874 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
26875 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
26876 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
26877 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
26878 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
26879 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26881 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
26882 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
26883 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
26884 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
26887 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26888 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26891 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
26892 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
26893 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26896 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
26897 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
26898 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
26899 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
26900 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
26901 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
26902 addresses many more minor issues.
26904 o New directory authorities:
26905 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
26908 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
26909 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
26910 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
26911 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
26913 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
26914 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
26915 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26916 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26917 and are reaching it.
26918 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
26919 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
26920 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
26921 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
26922 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26923 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26926 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
26927 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
26929 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
26930 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
26931 no longer work for clients.
26932 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26933 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
26935 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
26936 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
26937 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
26938 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
26939 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
26940 enough directory information to build a circuit.
26941 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
26942 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
26943 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
26944 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
26945 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
26946 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
26948 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
26949 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
26950 requests for all of them.
26951 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
26953 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
26954 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
26955 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
26957 o New requirements:
26958 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26959 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26963 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26964 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26965 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26966 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26967 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
26968 networkstatuses that we already have.
26969 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26970 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26971 we start knowing some directory caches.
26972 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26973 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26974 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26975 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
26976 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
26977 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26978 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26979 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26980 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26982 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
26983 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
26984 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
26986 o Minor features (bridges):
26987 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
26988 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
26989 back to trying the bridge directly.
26990 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
26991 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
26993 o Minor features (controller):
26994 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26995 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26996 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26999 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
27000 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
27004 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
27005 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
27006 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
27007 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
27008 reported by tup and ioerror.
27009 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
27010 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
27012 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
27013 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
27015 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
27016 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
27017 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
27019 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
27020 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27021 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
27022 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27023 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
27024 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27025 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
27027 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
27028 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
27029 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27031 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
27032 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
27033 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
27034 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
27035 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
27038 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
27039 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
27040 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
27041 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
27042 lists for a few hours each day.
27044 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27045 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
27046 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
27047 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
27048 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
27049 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
27050 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
27051 rend_process_relay_cell().
27053 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27054 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
27055 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
27056 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
27057 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
27058 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
27059 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
27060 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
27062 o Major bugfixes (other):
27063 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
27064 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
27065 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
27066 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
27067 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
27068 circuit cannibalization).
27069 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
27070 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
27071 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
27072 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
27073 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
27074 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
27077 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
27078 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
27080 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
27081 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
27082 absent. Resolves bug 467.
27083 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
27084 a way to trigger this remotely.)
27085 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
27086 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
27087 were reporting the dir port.)
27088 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
27089 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
27090 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
27091 the future. Fixes bug 434.
27092 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
27094 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
27095 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
27096 the onion key from getting rotated.
27097 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
27098 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
27099 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
27100 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
27101 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
27102 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
27103 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
27104 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
27105 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
27108 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
27109 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
27110 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
27111 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
27112 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
27113 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
27115 o Major features (directory system):
27116 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
27117 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
27118 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
27119 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
27120 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
27121 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
27122 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
27123 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
27124 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
27125 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
27126 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
27127 Partially implements proposal 122.
27128 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
27129 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
27132 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
27133 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
27134 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
27135 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
27137 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
27138 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
27139 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
27140 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
27141 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
27142 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27143 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
27144 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
27145 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27147 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
27148 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
27150 - Allow certificates to include an address.
27151 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
27152 and download operations.
27153 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
27154 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
27155 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
27156 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
27157 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
27158 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
27160 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
27161 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
27164 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
27165 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
27166 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
27167 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
27169 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
27170 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
27171 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
27173 o Minor features (performance):
27174 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
27175 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
27176 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
27177 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
27178 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
27179 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
27180 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
27183 o Minor features (compilation):
27184 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
27185 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
27187 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
27188 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
27189 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
27190 stick around indefinitely.
27191 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
27193 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
27194 v3 directory authority.
27195 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
27196 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
27198 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
27199 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
27200 "moria on moria:9031."
27201 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
27202 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
27203 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
27204 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
27205 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
27206 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
27207 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
27208 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
27210 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
27211 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
27212 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
27213 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
27214 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
27215 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
27216 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
27217 downloads than for other types.
27219 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
27220 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
27222 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
27223 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
27224 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27226 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27227 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
27228 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27229 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
27230 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
27231 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
27232 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
27233 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
27235 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27236 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
27237 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
27238 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
27239 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27240 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
27241 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
27242 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27243 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
27244 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
27245 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
27247 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
27248 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
27251 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27252 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
27253 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
27254 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
27255 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
27256 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
27257 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
27258 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
27259 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
27260 so that they all take the same named flags.
27263 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
27264 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
27265 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
27268 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
27269 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
27270 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
27271 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
27272 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
27273 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
27275 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
27276 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
27277 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
27278 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
27279 annotations along with descriptors.
27280 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
27281 source, and its purpose.
27282 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
27284 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
27285 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
27286 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
27287 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
27290 o Major features (directory authorities):
27291 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
27293 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
27294 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
27295 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
27296 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
27297 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
27298 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
27300 o Major features (v3 directory system):
27301 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
27302 and download the descriptors listed in them.
27303 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
27304 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
27305 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
27307 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27308 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
27309 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
27310 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
27313 o Major bugfixes (performance):
27314 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
27315 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
27316 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
27317 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
27319 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
27320 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
27321 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
27322 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
27323 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
27324 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
27326 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
27327 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
27329 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
27330 certificate is requested.
27331 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
27332 certificate requests.
27334 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
27335 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
27336 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
27337 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
27340 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27341 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
27342 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
27343 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27345 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
27346 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
27348 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
27349 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
27350 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27351 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
27352 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
27353 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
27354 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
27355 downloads more sensible.
27356 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
27357 another when serving certificates.
27359 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27360 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
27361 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
27362 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
27364 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
27365 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27366 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
27368 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
27369 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27371 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
27372 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
27373 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
27374 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
27375 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27377 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
27378 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
27379 WARN-severity events.
27380 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
27381 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
27382 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
27384 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
27385 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
27386 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
27388 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
27389 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
27390 circuit cannibalization).
27392 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27393 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
27394 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
27395 new module, networkstatus.c.
27396 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
27397 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
27398 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
27399 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
27400 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
27401 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
27402 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
27403 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
27404 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
27406 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
27408 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
27409 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27412 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
27413 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
27414 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
27415 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
27417 o New directory authorities:
27418 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
27419 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
27421 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27422 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
27423 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27425 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
27426 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
27427 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
27428 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
27429 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27430 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
27431 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
27432 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
27433 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
27434 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
27435 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27437 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27438 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
27439 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
27440 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
27441 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
27442 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
27443 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
27444 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
27445 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
27447 o Minor features (security):
27448 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
27449 address maps to an internal address space.
27450 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
27451 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
27453 o Minor features (guard nodes):
27454 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
27455 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
27456 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
27457 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
27459 o Minor features (speed):
27460 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
27461 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
27462 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
27463 on big-endian hosts.)
27465 o Minor features (controller):
27466 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
27467 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
27468 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
27469 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
27472 o Removed features:
27473 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
27474 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
27475 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
27476 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
27477 implementation of proposal 104.
27478 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
27479 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
27480 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
27481 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
27482 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
27483 patch from Karsten Loesing.
27484 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
27485 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
27488 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
27489 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
27490 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27491 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
27492 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27493 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
27494 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27495 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
27496 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
27497 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27498 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
27499 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
27500 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
27501 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27502 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
27503 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
27504 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
27505 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27506 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
27507 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
27509 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27510 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
27511 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
27513 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
27514 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
27515 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
27516 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
27519 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
27520 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
27521 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
27522 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
27523 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
27526 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
27527 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
27530 o Major bugfixes (security):
27531 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
27532 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
27533 become more of a headache than it's worth.
27535 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
27536 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
27537 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
27539 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
27540 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
27541 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
27542 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
27543 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
27544 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
27546 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
27547 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
27548 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
27549 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
27550 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
27552 o Minor features (controller):
27553 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
27554 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
27555 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
27556 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
27558 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27559 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
27560 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
27561 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
27562 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
27563 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
27564 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
27565 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
27567 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27568 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
27569 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
27570 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
27571 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
27572 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
27573 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
27574 if we ran off the end of the list.
27575 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
27576 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
27577 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
27578 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
27579 every time we change any piece of our config.
27580 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
27581 encourage people using them to stop.
27582 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
27584 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
27585 servers to choose a circuit.
27586 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
27587 unparseable piece of it.
27590 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
27591 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
27592 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
27593 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
27596 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
27597 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
27598 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
27599 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
27600 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
27602 o New directory authorities:
27603 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
27606 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
27607 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
27608 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
27609 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
27611 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
27612 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
27613 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
27615 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
27616 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
27617 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
27618 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
27619 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
27620 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
27622 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
27623 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
27624 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27627 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
27628 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
27629 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
27630 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
27634 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
27635 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
27636 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
27637 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
27639 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
27640 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
27642 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
27643 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
27644 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
27645 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
27646 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
27647 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
27648 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27649 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
27650 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27651 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
27654 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
27655 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
27656 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
27657 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
27658 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
27659 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
27661 o Removed features:
27662 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
27663 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
27664 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
27665 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
27668 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
27669 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
27670 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
27671 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
27672 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
27675 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
27676 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
27677 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
27678 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
27679 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
27680 reported by lodger.
27682 o Minor features (directory servers):
27683 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
27684 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
27686 o Minor features (directory voting):
27687 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
27690 o Minor features (security):
27691 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
27692 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
27693 encourage people using them to stop.
27695 o Minor features (controller):
27696 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
27697 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
27698 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
27699 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
27700 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
27701 cookie authentication file, and config option
27702 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
27704 o Minor features (unit testing):
27705 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
27706 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
27707 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
27708 logging for the unit tests.
27710 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
27711 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
27712 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
27713 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
27714 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
27715 every time we change any piece of our config.
27716 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
27717 the future. Fixes bug 434.
27718 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
27720 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
27721 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
27722 the onion key from getting rotated.
27723 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
27724 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
27725 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
27728 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27729 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
27730 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
27732 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
27733 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
27734 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
27735 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
27738 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
27739 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
27740 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
27741 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
27742 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
27743 TorK, etc. Or worse.
27745 o Major security fixes:
27746 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
27747 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
27750 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
27751 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
27752 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
27753 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
27755 o Major security fixes:
27756 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
27757 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
27759 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
27760 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
27763 o Minor features (performance):
27764 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
27765 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
27766 performance-intensive.
27767 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
27768 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
27769 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
27770 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
27771 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
27772 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
27776 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
27777 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
27778 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
27779 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
27783 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
27784 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
27785 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
27786 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
27787 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
27789 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
27790 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
27791 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
27792 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
27794 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
27795 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
27796 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
27797 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
27798 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
27800 o Major features (experimental):
27801 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
27802 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
27803 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
27804 handling before it's ready for use.
27807 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
27808 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
27809 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
27810 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27811 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
27812 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
27814 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
27815 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
27816 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
27817 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
27818 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
27820 o Major bugfixes (directory):
27821 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
27822 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27824 o Minor features (controller):
27825 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
27826 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27827 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
27828 from Robert Hogan.)
27829 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
27830 from Robert Hogan.)
27831 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
27832 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
27834 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
27835 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
27836 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
27837 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
27838 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27839 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
27840 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
27843 o Minor features (misc):
27844 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
27846 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
27847 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
27848 the authority identity key.
27849 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
27851 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
27852 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
27853 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
27856 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
27857 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
27858 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
27859 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
27860 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
27861 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
27862 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
27863 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
27865 o Performance improvements:
27866 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
27868 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
27869 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
27872 o Deprecated and removed features:
27873 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
27874 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
27875 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
27876 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
27878 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27879 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
27880 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27881 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
27882 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
27883 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27884 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
27885 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
27886 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
27889 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
27890 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
27891 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
27892 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
27893 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
27895 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
27896 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
27899 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27900 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
27901 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
27902 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
27903 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
27904 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
27905 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
27906 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
27907 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
27910 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
27911 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
27912 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
27913 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
27915 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
27916 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
27918 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27919 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
27920 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
27921 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
27922 routerlist while inserting a new router.
27923 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
27924 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
27926 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
27927 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
27928 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
27930 o Major bugfixes (security):
27931 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
27933 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
27934 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
27935 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
27936 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
27937 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
27938 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
27939 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
27940 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
27941 guard list unless we need to.
27943 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
27944 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
27945 don't get overused as guards.
27947 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
27948 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
27949 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
27950 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
27951 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
27953 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27954 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
27955 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
27958 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27959 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
27960 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
27961 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
27962 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
27963 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
27964 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
27965 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
27968 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
27969 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
27970 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
27971 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
27973 o Minor features (directory):
27974 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
27975 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
27976 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
27977 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
27979 o Minor build issues:
27980 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
27981 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
27982 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
27983 in the tarball, not as "x".
27986 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
27987 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
27988 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
27989 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
27990 forward on a lot of fronts.
27992 o Major features, server usability:
27993 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
27994 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
27995 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
27996 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
27998 o Major features, client usability:
27999 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
28000 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
28001 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
28002 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
28003 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
28004 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
28005 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
28006 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
28008 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
28009 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
28010 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
28011 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
28012 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
28013 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
28015 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
28016 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
28017 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
28019 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
28020 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
28021 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
28022 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
28023 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
28025 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
28026 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
28027 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
28028 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
28030 o Major features, other:
28031 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
28032 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
28033 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
28034 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
28035 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
28038 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
28039 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
28040 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
28043 o Minor fixes (resource management):
28044 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
28045 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
28046 our allocated connection limit.
28047 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
28048 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
28049 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
28050 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
28051 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
28053 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
28054 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
28055 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
28057 o Minor features (build):
28058 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
28059 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
28060 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
28061 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
28063 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
28064 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
28065 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
28066 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
28067 Use this version consistently in log messages.
28069 o Minor features (logging):
28070 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
28071 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
28072 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
28073 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
28074 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
28077 o Minor features (directory system):
28078 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
28079 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
28080 not to serve V2 directory information.
28081 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
28082 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
28083 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
28085 o Minor features (controller):
28086 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
28087 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
28089 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
28090 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
28091 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
28092 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
28093 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
28094 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
28096 o Minor features (hidden services):
28097 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
28098 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
28099 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
28100 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
28102 o Minor features (other):
28104 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
28105 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
28106 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
28107 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
28108 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
28109 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
28110 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
28111 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
28112 longer a completely silly thing to do.
28113 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
28114 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
28115 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
28116 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
28118 o Removed features:
28119 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
28120 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
28121 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
28122 back an error and close the connection.
28123 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
28124 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
28127 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
28128 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
28129 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
28130 makes the log messages nicer.
28131 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
28132 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
28133 partial results on small file reads.
28135 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
28136 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
28137 more often than they are allowed to appear.
28138 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
28139 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
28141 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
28142 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
28143 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
28144 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
28146 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28147 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
28148 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
28149 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
28150 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
28151 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
28152 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
28153 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
28154 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
28155 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
28156 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
28158 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
28159 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
28160 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
28162 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
28163 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
28164 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
28165 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
28167 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28168 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
28169 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
28171 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
28172 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
28175 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28176 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
28177 implicit in other procedure arguments.
28178 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
28179 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
28180 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
28181 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
28182 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
28183 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
28184 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
28185 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
28186 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
28189 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
28190 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
28191 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
28192 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
28194 o Directory authority changes:
28195 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
28196 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
28197 or use hidden services.
28199 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28200 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
28201 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
28202 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
28203 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
28204 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
28205 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
28206 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
28207 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
28210 o Major bugfixes (security):
28211 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
28212 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
28213 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
28215 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
28216 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
28217 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
28218 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
28219 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
28220 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
28221 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
28222 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
28223 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
28224 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
28227 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
28228 purpose=controller.
28229 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
28230 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
28232 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
28233 having a hard time downloading.
28234 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
28235 partial results on small file reads.
28236 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
28237 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
28238 the gaps in the store get very large.
28241 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
28242 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
28244 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
28245 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
28248 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
28249 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
28250 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
28251 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
28252 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
28253 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
28255 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
28256 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
28257 free speech on the Internet.
28260 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
28261 get one we don't recognize.
28262 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
28263 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
28266 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
28268 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
28269 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
28270 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
28271 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
28274 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
28275 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
28278 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
28279 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
28280 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
28281 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
28282 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
28283 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
28284 ask for GUARDS too.
28287 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
28288 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
28289 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
28290 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
28291 on Win98 and friends again.
28293 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28294 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
28295 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
28298 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
28299 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
28300 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
28301 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
28302 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
28303 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
28304 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
28305 and maybe also bug 397.)
28307 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
28308 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
28309 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
28311 o Minor bugfixes (server):
28312 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
28315 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
28316 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
28317 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
28318 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
28319 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
28321 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28322 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
28323 load on authorities.
28325 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28326 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
28327 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
28328 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
28330 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
28332 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
28333 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
28334 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
28335 the last of bug 326.)
28336 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
28337 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
28341 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
28342 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28343 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
28344 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
28345 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
28346 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
28347 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
28349 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
28350 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
28352 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28353 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
28354 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
28356 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
28357 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
28358 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
28360 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28361 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
28362 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
28363 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
28365 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
28366 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
28368 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
28369 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
28370 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
28373 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28374 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
28375 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
28376 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
28377 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
28378 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
28379 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
28380 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
28381 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
28382 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
28383 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
28384 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
28385 other than file-not-found.
28386 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
28387 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
28388 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
28389 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
28390 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
28391 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
28392 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
28393 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
28394 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
28395 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
28396 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
28397 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
28398 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
28399 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
28400 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
28402 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
28404 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
28405 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
28407 o Minor features (controller):
28408 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
28409 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
28410 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
28412 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
28413 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
28414 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
28415 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
28416 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
28417 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
28418 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
28419 connected or resolved cell.
28421 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
28422 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
28423 some profiles, but not others.)
28424 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
28425 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
28426 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
28429 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
28431 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
28432 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
28433 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
28434 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
28435 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
28436 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
28437 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
28438 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
28439 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
28440 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
28441 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
28442 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
28443 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
28444 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
28445 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
28447 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
28450 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
28451 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
28452 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
28453 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
28454 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
28455 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
28456 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
28458 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
28459 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
28460 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
28461 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
28462 buckets go absurdly negative.
28463 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
28464 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
28467 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
28468 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
28469 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
28470 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
28471 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
28472 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
28473 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
28474 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
28477 o Major bugfixes (other):
28478 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
28479 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
28480 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
28481 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
28483 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
28485 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
28486 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
28488 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
28489 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
28490 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
28491 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
28492 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
28493 to wait for 0.2.0.)
28495 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
28496 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
28497 possible memory-stomping bugs.
28498 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
28499 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
28501 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
28502 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
28503 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
28504 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
28505 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
28506 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
28508 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28509 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
28510 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
28511 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
28513 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
28514 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
28515 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
28516 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
28517 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
28518 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
28519 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
28520 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
28521 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
28522 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
28523 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
28524 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
28525 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
28527 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
28528 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
28529 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
28530 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
28531 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
28532 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
28533 to the resulting address.
28536 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
28537 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
28538 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
28539 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
28542 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
28543 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
28545 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
28546 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
28547 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
28548 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
28549 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
28550 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
28551 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
28552 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
28553 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
28554 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
28555 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
28556 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
28557 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
28558 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
28559 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
28560 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
28561 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
28564 o Minor features (controller):
28565 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
28566 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
28567 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
28568 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
28569 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
28570 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
28571 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
28575 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
28577 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
28578 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
28579 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
28580 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
28581 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
28582 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
28585 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
28586 weren't planning to resolve.
28587 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
28588 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
28589 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
28590 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
28591 the controller from learning about current events.
28593 o Minor features (more controller status events):
28594 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
28595 learn when our address changes.
28596 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
28597 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
28598 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
28599 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
28601 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
28602 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
28603 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
28604 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
28605 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
28606 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
28607 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
28608 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
28609 are accepted by a directory.
28610 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
28611 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
28612 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
28613 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
28614 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
28616 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
28617 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
28618 about changes to DNS server status.
28620 o Minor features (directory):
28621 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
28622 too much load to the exit nodes.
28625 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
28627 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
28628 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
28629 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
28630 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
28631 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
28633 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
28634 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
28635 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
28637 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
28638 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
28639 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
28640 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
28641 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
28642 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
28643 config options if you like.
28645 o Minor features (config and docs):
28646 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
28647 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
28648 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
28649 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
28650 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
28652 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
28653 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
28654 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
28655 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
28656 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
28658 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
28659 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
28660 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
28661 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
28662 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
28663 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
28664 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
28665 documentation: "make check-docs".
28666 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
28667 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
28669 o Minor features (DNS):
28670 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
28671 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
28672 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
28673 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
28674 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
28675 our tests for DNS hijacking.
28677 o Minor features (directory):
28678 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
28679 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
28680 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
28681 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
28682 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
28683 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
28684 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
28685 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
28686 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
28687 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
28688 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
28689 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
28690 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
28691 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
28692 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
28693 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
28694 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
28695 for the thing we're trying to download.
28696 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
28697 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
28698 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
28700 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
28701 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
28702 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
28705 o Minor features (controller):
28706 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
28707 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
28709 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
28710 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
28711 entry guard status as it changes.
28713 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
28714 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
28715 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
28716 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
28717 to set log options.
28718 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
28719 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
28720 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
28721 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
28724 o Major bugfixes (security):
28725 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
28726 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
28727 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
28728 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
28730 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
28731 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
28732 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
28733 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
28734 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
28736 o Major bugfixes (other):
28737 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
28738 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
28739 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
28740 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
28742 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
28743 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
28744 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
28745 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
28746 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
28747 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
28751 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
28752 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
28753 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
28754 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
28755 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
28757 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
28758 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
28760 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
28761 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
28762 family lists conveniently.
28763 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
28764 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
28765 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
28767 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
28768 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
28770 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
28771 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
28772 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
28773 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
28774 if their identity keys are as expected.
28775 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
28776 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
28777 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
28779 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28780 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
28781 reported by Mike Perry.
28782 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
28783 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
28784 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
28785 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
28788 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
28789 o Security bugfixes:
28790 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
28791 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
28792 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
28793 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
28797 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
28798 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
28799 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
28802 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
28804 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
28805 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
28806 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
28809 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
28810 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
28811 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
28812 watching for STREAM events.
28813 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
28814 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
28815 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
28816 operations, for profiling.
28819 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
28820 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
28821 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
28822 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
28823 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
28824 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
28826 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
28830 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
28831 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
28832 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
28833 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
28834 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
28836 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
28837 correctly in the Windows installer.
28838 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
28839 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
28840 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
28841 MIPSpro C compiler.
28842 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
28843 when we're running as a client.
28846 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
28848 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
28849 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
28850 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
28851 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
28852 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
28853 its circuits on demand.
28854 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
28855 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
28856 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
28857 connections more stable on average.
28858 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
28859 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
28860 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
28862 o Security bugfixes:
28863 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
28864 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
28867 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
28869 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
28870 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
28871 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
28872 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
28873 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
28874 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
28875 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
28876 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
28879 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
28881 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
28882 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
28883 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
28884 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
28885 routers for even longer.
28886 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
28887 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
28888 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
28889 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
28890 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
28891 caching HTTP proxies.
28892 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
28895 o Minor features, controller:
28896 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
28897 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
28898 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
28899 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
28901 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
28902 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
28903 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
28904 working much like those for circuit events.
28905 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
28906 about the current status of a router.
28907 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
28908 a router's status has changed.
28909 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
28910 can tell which events and features are supported.
28911 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
28912 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
28914 o Security bugfixes:
28915 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
28916 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
28919 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
28920 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
28921 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
28922 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
28923 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
28924 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
28925 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
28926 long nicknames where appropriate.
28927 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
28928 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
28929 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
28930 chews through many circuits before giving up.
28931 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
28932 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
28933 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
28934 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
28935 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
28936 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
28938 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
28939 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
28940 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
28942 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
28943 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
28944 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
28945 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
28946 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
28947 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
28948 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
28949 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
28950 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
28951 (reported by fookoowa).
28952 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
28953 and reported by some Centos users.
28954 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
28955 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
28956 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
28957 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
28958 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
28959 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
28960 before we check for libevent.
28963 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
28965 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
28966 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
28967 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
28968 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
28969 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
28970 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
28971 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
28972 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
28973 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
28974 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
28975 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
28976 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
28977 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
28978 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
28979 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
28980 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
28981 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
28982 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
28983 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
28984 lets you turn it off.
28985 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
28986 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
28987 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
28988 us into the directory more quickly.
28990 o New/improved config options:
28991 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
28992 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
28993 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
28994 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
28995 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
28996 all the machines on the same subnet.
28997 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
28998 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
28999 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
29000 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
29001 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
29002 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
29003 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
29004 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
29005 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
29006 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
29008 o Minor features, controller:
29009 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
29010 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
29011 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
29012 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
29013 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
29014 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
29015 for more information.
29016 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
29017 best guess to the user.
29018 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
29019 descriptor has changed.
29020 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
29022 o Minor features, other:
29023 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
29024 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
29025 useful to the network.
29026 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
29027 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
29028 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
29029 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
29030 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
29031 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
29032 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
29033 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
29034 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
29035 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
29036 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
29037 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
29038 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
29039 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
29040 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
29042 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
29043 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
29044 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
29045 could return an unnamed server instead.
29046 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
29047 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
29048 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
29049 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
29050 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
29051 a more attractive target for compromise.)
29052 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
29053 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
29054 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
29056 o Major bugfixes, other:
29057 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
29058 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
29059 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
29060 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
29061 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
29062 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
29063 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
29064 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
29065 its circuits on demand.
29066 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
29067 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
29068 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
29069 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
29071 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
29072 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
29073 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
29074 we don't recognize.
29075 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
29077 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
29078 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
29079 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
29080 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
29081 "extendcircuit" request.
29082 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
29083 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
29084 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
29086 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
29087 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
29088 instead of "X resolved to X".
29089 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
29090 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
29091 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
29092 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
29093 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
29094 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
29095 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
29096 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
29097 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
29099 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
29100 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
29101 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
29102 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
29103 result more than once.
29104 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
29105 non-versioning dirservers.
29106 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
29107 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
29109 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
29110 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
29111 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
29112 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
29113 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
29114 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
29115 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
29116 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
29117 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
29119 o Packaging, features:
29120 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
29121 now universal binaries.
29122 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
29123 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
29124 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
29126 o Packaging, bugfixes:
29127 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
29128 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
29129 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
29130 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
29132 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
29133 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
29134 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
29137 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
29138 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
29139 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
29143 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
29145 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
29146 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
29147 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
29148 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
29149 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
29150 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
29151 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
29152 it can't resolve its hostname.
29155 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
29156 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
29157 "extendcircuit" request.
29158 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
29159 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
29160 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
29161 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
29163 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
29164 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
29165 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
29167 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
29168 methods: these are known to be buggy.
29169 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
29170 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
29171 we don't recognize.
29174 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
29176 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
29177 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
29178 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
29179 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
29180 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
29181 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
29182 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
29183 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
29184 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
29185 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
29186 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
29187 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
29188 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
29189 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
29190 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
29191 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
29192 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
29193 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
29194 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
29195 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
29196 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
29197 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
29198 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
29199 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
29202 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
29203 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
29204 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
29205 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
29206 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
29207 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
29208 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
29209 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
29210 recommendation system saner.)
29211 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
29213 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
29214 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
29215 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
29216 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
29217 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
29218 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
29219 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
29220 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
29221 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
29222 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
29223 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
29224 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
29225 your ORPort is set.
29226 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
29227 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
29228 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
29229 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
29230 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
29231 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
29232 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
29233 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
29234 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
29235 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
29236 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
29237 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
29239 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
29240 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
29241 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
29242 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
29243 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
29244 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
29247 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
29248 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
29249 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
29250 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
29251 our DirPort now, etc.
29252 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
29253 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
29254 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
29255 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
29256 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
29257 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
29258 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
29260 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
29261 whether the config options are bad or good.
29262 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
29263 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
29264 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
29265 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
29266 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
29267 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
29268 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
29269 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
29272 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
29273 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
29274 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
29275 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
29276 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
29277 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
29278 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
29279 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
29280 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
29281 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
29282 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
29283 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
29284 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
29285 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
29286 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
29287 of it), is not therefore "up".
29288 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
29289 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
29290 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
29291 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
29292 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
29293 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
29296 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
29298 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
29299 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
29300 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
29301 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
29302 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
29303 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
29304 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
29305 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
29306 test reachability, so you won't publish.
29309 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
29310 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
29311 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
29312 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
29313 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
29315 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
29316 own server descriptor yet.
29319 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
29321 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
29322 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
29323 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
29324 make sure to test via one of these.
29325 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
29326 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
29327 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
29328 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
29329 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
29331 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
29332 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
29333 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
29336 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
29337 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
29338 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
29339 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
29340 directory authority.
29341 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
29342 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
29343 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
29344 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
29347 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
29348 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
29349 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
29351 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
29352 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
29353 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
29354 current guards when picking a new guard.
29355 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
29356 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
29357 when we had more than one pending.
29358 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
29359 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
29360 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
29361 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
29362 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
29363 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
29364 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
29365 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
29366 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
29367 debug the reachability problems better.
29369 o Log / documentation fixes:
29370 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
29371 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
29372 about protocol violations by others.
29373 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
29374 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
29375 about what happened to our old torrc.
29378 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
29380 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
29382 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
29383 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
29384 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
29385 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
29388 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
29390 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
29391 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
29392 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
29393 old ORPort and receive connections.
29394 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
29396 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
29397 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
29398 and network-statuses.
29399 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
29400 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
29401 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
29402 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
29404 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
29407 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
29408 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
29409 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
29412 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
29414 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
29415 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
29416 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
29417 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
29418 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
29421 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
29422 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
29424 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
29425 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
29426 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
29427 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
29428 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
29429 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
29430 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
29431 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
29432 rather than not sending anything back at all.
29433 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
29434 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
29435 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
29436 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
29437 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
29438 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
29439 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
29440 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
29441 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
29442 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
29443 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
29444 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
29445 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
29446 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
29447 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
29448 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
29449 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
29450 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
29451 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
29452 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
29453 default ulimit -n is 1024.
29456 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
29457 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
29458 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
29459 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
29462 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
29464 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
29465 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
29466 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
29467 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
29468 entry guards running these flawed versions.
29469 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
29470 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
29471 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
29472 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
29473 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
29476 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
29477 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
29479 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
29480 and it is confusing some users.
29481 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
29482 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
29483 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
29484 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
29485 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
29488 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
29490 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
29491 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
29492 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
29493 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
29494 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
29495 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
29496 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
29497 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
29498 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
29499 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
29500 dirport is set for now.
29502 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
29503 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
29504 unattached before we fail it?
29505 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
29506 at least this many seconds ago.
29507 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
29508 at least this many seconds ago.
29511 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
29512 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
29513 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
29514 or resolve-wait stream.
29515 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
29516 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
29517 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
29518 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
29519 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
29520 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
29521 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
29522 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
29524 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
29525 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
29526 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
29527 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
29528 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
29529 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
29530 given as hex digests.
29531 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
29532 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
29533 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
29534 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
29535 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
29536 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
29537 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
29538 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
29541 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29542 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
29543 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
29544 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
29545 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
29546 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
29547 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
29548 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
29549 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
29550 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
29551 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
29554 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
29555 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
29556 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
29557 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
29558 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
29559 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
29560 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
29563 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
29564 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
29565 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
29566 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
29567 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
29568 misreading their logs.
29569 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
29570 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
29571 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
29572 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
29573 valid router descriptors.
29574 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
29575 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
29576 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
29577 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
29578 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
29579 silently resetting it to its default.
29580 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
29582 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
29585 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
29586 use clean circuits.
29587 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
29588 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
29589 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
29590 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
29591 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
29593 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
29594 because older Tors do not understand it.
29595 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
29599 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
29600 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29601 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
29602 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
29603 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
29604 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
29605 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
29606 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
29607 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
29608 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
29609 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
29611 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
29612 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
29613 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
29614 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
29616 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
29617 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
29620 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
29621 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
29622 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
29623 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
29624 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
29625 without getting overloaded.
29626 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
29628 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
29629 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
29630 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
29631 be forward-compatible.
29632 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
29633 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
29634 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
29635 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
29637 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
29638 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
29639 and OR conns to port 443.
29640 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
29641 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
29643 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
29644 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
29645 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
29646 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
29647 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
29648 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
29649 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
29652 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
29653 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29654 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
29655 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
29657 o Other important bugfixes:
29658 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
29659 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
29660 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
29661 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
29663 o Backported features:
29664 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
29665 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
29666 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
29667 without getting overloaded.
29668 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
29669 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
29670 503's whenever they feel busy.
29671 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
29672 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
29673 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
29674 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
29675 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
29678 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
29679 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
29680 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
29681 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
29682 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
29683 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
29684 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
29685 know if the crashes continue.
29686 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
29687 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
29688 seg faults in at least some cases.)
29689 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
29690 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
29691 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
29694 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
29695 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
29696 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
29697 try to be a bit more fair.
29698 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
29699 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
29700 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
29701 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
29702 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
29703 bug that let it go negative.
29704 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
29705 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
29706 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
29707 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
29708 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
29709 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
29710 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
29711 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
29712 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
29713 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
29714 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
29717 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
29719 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
29720 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
29721 service descriptors.
29724 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
29725 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
29726 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
29727 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
29729 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
29730 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
29731 versions *are* still recommended.
29732 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
29733 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
29734 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
29735 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
29736 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
29737 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
29738 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
29739 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
29741 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
29742 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
29743 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
29744 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
29745 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
29746 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
29747 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
29748 on it. Not used by clients yet.
29749 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
29750 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
29751 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
29752 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
29753 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
29754 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
29755 established a circuit.
29756 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
29757 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
29758 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
29759 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
29762 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
29763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29764 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
29765 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
29766 quickly enough. Oops.
29767 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
29769 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29770 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
29773 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
29774 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
29775 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
29776 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
29777 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
29778 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
29779 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
29780 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
29781 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
29782 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
29783 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
29784 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
29785 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
29786 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
29787 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
29788 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
29789 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
29792 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
29793 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
29794 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
29795 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
29796 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
29797 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
29798 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
29799 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
29800 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
29801 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
29802 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
29803 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
29804 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
29805 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
29806 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
29807 connections more reliable.
29810 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
29811 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
29812 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
29813 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
29814 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
29815 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
29816 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
29817 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
29818 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
29819 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
29820 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
29821 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
29822 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
29823 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
29827 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
29828 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
29829 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
29830 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
29831 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
29832 need to be uint64_t's.
29833 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
29834 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
29835 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
29837 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
29839 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
29840 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
29841 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
29842 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
29843 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
29844 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
29845 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
29847 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
29848 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
29849 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
29850 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
29851 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
29852 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
29853 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
29854 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
29855 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
29856 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
29857 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
29858 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
29859 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
29862 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
29863 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
29864 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
29865 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
29866 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
29867 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
29868 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
29870 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
29871 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
29872 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
29873 can answer v2 directory requests too.
29874 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
29875 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
29876 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
29877 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
29879 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
29880 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
29881 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
29882 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
29883 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
29884 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
29885 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
29886 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
29887 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
29888 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
29889 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
29890 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
29891 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
29892 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
29893 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
29895 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
29896 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
29899 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
29900 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29901 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
29902 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
29903 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
29904 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
29905 too -- so detect and avoid this.
29906 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
29908 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
29909 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
29910 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
29911 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
29912 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
29913 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
29914 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
29915 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
29916 rendezvous circuits.
29917 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
29919 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29920 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
29921 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
29922 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
29923 advertising it because of hibernation.
29924 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
29925 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
29926 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
29927 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
29928 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
29929 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
29930 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
29931 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
29932 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
29933 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
29934 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
29935 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
29936 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
29937 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
29940 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
29941 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29942 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
29943 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
29944 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
29945 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
29946 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
29947 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
29948 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
29949 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
29950 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
29951 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
29952 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
29953 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
29954 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
29955 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
29956 connections once a week.
29957 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
29958 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
29959 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
29960 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
29961 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
29962 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
29964 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
29965 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
29966 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
29968 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29969 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
29970 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
29971 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
29972 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
29973 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
29974 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
29975 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
29976 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
29977 firewall options forbid.
29978 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
29979 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
29980 can only proxy to certain destinations.
29981 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
29982 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
29983 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
29984 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
29985 aids some statistical attacks.
29986 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
29987 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
29988 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
29989 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
29991 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29992 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
29993 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
29994 server descriptor sometimes.
29995 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
29996 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
29997 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
29998 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
29999 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
30000 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
30001 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
30002 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
30004 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
30005 case the controller wants to change that too.
30006 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
30007 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
30008 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
30009 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
30011 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
30012 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
30013 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
30015 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
30016 descriptors that they know they will reject.
30018 o Features and updates:
30019 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
30020 significantly faster.
30021 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
30022 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
30023 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
30024 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
30025 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
30026 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
30027 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
30028 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
30029 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
30030 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
30031 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
30032 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
30033 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
30034 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
30035 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
30036 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
30037 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
30038 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
30039 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
30040 as authoritative dirserver.
30041 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
30042 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
30043 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
30046 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
30047 o Usability improvements:
30048 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
30049 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
30051 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
30052 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
30053 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
30055 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
30056 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
30057 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
30058 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
30059 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
30060 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
30061 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
30062 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
30063 memory leaks better.
30064 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
30065 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
30066 their operators to pay close attention.
30067 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
30068 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
30070 o Performance improvements:
30071 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
30072 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
30073 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
30074 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
30075 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
30076 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
30077 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
30078 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
30079 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
30080 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
30081 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
30082 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
30083 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
30084 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
30085 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
30086 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
30087 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
30089 o Security improvements:
30090 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
30091 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
30092 fingerprint of server.
30093 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
30094 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
30095 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
30097 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30098 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
30099 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
30100 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
30101 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
30102 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
30103 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
30104 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
30105 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
30106 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
30107 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
30108 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
30109 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
30110 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
30111 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
30112 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
30113 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
30114 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
30115 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
30116 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
30117 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
30119 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
30120 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
30121 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
30123 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
30124 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
30126 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
30127 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
30128 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
30129 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
30130 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
30131 of the controller protocol.
30132 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
30133 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
30134 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
30137 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
30138 o New features (major):
30139 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
30140 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
30141 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
30142 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
30143 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
30144 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
30145 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
30146 we're using a default DirPort.
30147 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
30149 o New features (minor):
30150 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
30151 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
30152 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
30153 mirrors still cache and serve it).
30154 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
30155 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
30156 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
30157 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
30158 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
30159 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
30160 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
30161 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
30162 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
30163 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
30164 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
30165 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
30166 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
30167 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
30168 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
30170 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
30171 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
30172 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
30173 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
30174 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
30175 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
30176 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
30177 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
30179 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
30180 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
30181 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
30182 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
30183 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
30184 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
30185 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
30186 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
30187 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
30188 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
30190 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
30191 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
30192 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
30193 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
30194 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
30196 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30197 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
30198 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
30200 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
30201 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
30203 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
30204 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
30205 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
30206 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
30207 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
30208 don't warn twice about the same name.
30209 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
30210 if we've not heard of the server.
30211 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
30212 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
30215 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
30216 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30217 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
30218 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
30219 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
30220 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
30221 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
30222 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
30223 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
30224 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
30225 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
30226 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
30227 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
30228 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
30229 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
30232 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
30233 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
30234 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
30235 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
30236 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
30238 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
30239 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
30240 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
30241 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
30242 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
30243 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
30247 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
30248 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
30249 nickname) is reachable by you.
30250 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
30253 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30254 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
30255 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
30256 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
30257 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
30258 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
30259 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
30260 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
30261 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
30262 we fail to connect).
30263 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
30264 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
30265 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
30266 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
30268 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
30269 it was self-testing that told us so.
30272 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
30273 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
30274 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
30275 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
30276 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
30277 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
30278 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
30279 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
30280 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
30281 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
30282 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
30283 exit policy using him for any exits.
30284 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
30287 o New controller features/fixes:
30288 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
30289 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
30290 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
30291 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
30292 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
30293 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
30294 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
30295 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
30296 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
30298 o Start on the new directory design:
30299 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
30300 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
30302 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
30303 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
30304 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
30305 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
30307 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
30308 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
30309 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
30310 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
30311 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
30312 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
30313 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
30314 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
30317 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
30318 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
30319 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
30320 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
30321 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
30322 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
30323 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
30324 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
30325 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
30326 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
30328 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
30329 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
30330 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
30331 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
30332 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
30333 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
30334 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
30335 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
30336 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
30338 o Config option changes:
30339 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
30340 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
30341 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
30342 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
30343 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
30344 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
30346 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30347 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
30348 people have started using them for spam too.
30349 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
30350 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
30351 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
30352 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
30353 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
30354 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
30355 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
30356 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
30357 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
30358 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
30359 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
30360 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
30361 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
30362 services faster on the service end.
30363 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
30364 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
30365 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
30366 it a fair shake next time we try.
30367 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
30368 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
30369 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
30370 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
30371 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
30372 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
30373 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
30374 able to discover them.
30375 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
30376 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
30377 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
30378 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
30379 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
30380 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
30381 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
30382 testing for reachability.
30383 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
30384 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
30386 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
30388 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
30389 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
30392 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
30393 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
30395 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30396 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
30397 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
30398 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
30401 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
30402 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30403 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
30405 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
30406 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
30409 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
30410 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
30413 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
30414 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
30415 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
30416 options, getinfo keys.
30419 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
30420 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30421 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
30422 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
30423 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
30424 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
30425 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
30427 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
30428 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
30432 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
30433 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
30434 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
30436 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
30438 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
30439 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
30440 circuit events and we go offline.
30441 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
30442 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
30443 you don't have enough intro points already.
30445 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
30446 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
30447 many bytes we've used in this time period.
30448 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
30449 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
30450 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
30451 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
30452 enabled by default yet.
30454 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
30455 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
30456 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
30457 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
30458 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
30461 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
30462 o New directory servers:
30463 - tor26 has changed IP address.
30465 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30466 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
30467 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
30468 pthreads libraries.
30469 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
30470 claims its dirport is 0.
30471 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
30472 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
30476 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
30477 o New directory servers:
30478 - tor26 has changed IP address.
30480 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
30481 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
30483 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
30484 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
30485 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
30486 ports that have changed.
30487 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
30489 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
30490 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
30491 Windows-style errno back.
30492 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
30494 want to make it an NT service.
30495 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
30496 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
30497 name, give the full name in our response.
30498 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
30499 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
30500 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
30501 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
30502 pthreads libraries.
30504 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
30505 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
30509 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
30510 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
30511 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
30512 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
30513 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
30516 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
30517 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30518 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
30519 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
30520 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
30521 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
30522 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
30523 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
30526 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
30528 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
30529 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
30530 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
30531 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
30532 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
30533 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
30535 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
30536 temporarily unreachable.
30537 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
30541 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
30542 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
30543 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
30544 our protocol works.
30545 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
30549 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
30550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
30551 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
30552 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
30553 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
30557 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
30558 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
30559 libevent before 1.1a.
30562 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
30564 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
30565 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
30566 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
30567 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
30568 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
30570 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
30571 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
30572 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
30573 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
30574 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
30575 of CPU time plus memory.
30576 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
30577 normal web requests.
30578 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
30579 tor_lookup_hostname().
30580 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
30581 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
30582 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
30583 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
30584 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
30585 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
30587 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
30588 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
30589 HttpProxyAuthenticator
30590 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
30591 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
30592 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
30594 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
30595 the user asks you to.
30596 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
30597 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
30598 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
30599 their descriptors are being rejected.
30600 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
30604 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
30606 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
30607 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
30608 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
30610 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
30612 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
30614 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
30615 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
30616 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
30617 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
30618 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
30619 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
30620 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
30621 keys) from the exit server's process.
30622 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
30623 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
30624 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
30625 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
30626 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
30627 point at your Tor server.
30628 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
30629 you're not sending a socks reply back.
30632 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
30633 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
30634 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
30635 to make it easier to write controllers.
30638 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
30640 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
30641 installing on Tiger.
30642 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
30643 complain during installation.
30644 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
30645 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
30646 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
30647 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
30648 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
30649 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
30651 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
30652 something more reasonable when first installing.
30653 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
30656 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
30658 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
30659 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
30661 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
30662 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
30663 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
30664 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
30665 when using the default exit policy.
30666 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
30667 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
30668 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
30669 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
30670 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
30671 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
30672 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
30673 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
30674 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
30675 we fetched a new directory.
30676 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
30677 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
30680 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
30681 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
30682 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
30683 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
30684 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
30685 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
30686 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
30687 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
30689 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
30690 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
30691 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
30692 save memory on systems that need to fork.
30693 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
30694 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
30695 is valid without actually launching Tor.
30696 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
30697 rather than just rejecting it.
30700 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
30702 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
30703 we didn't like its cert.
30705 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
30706 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
30707 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
30708 on patch from Adam Langley.
30709 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
30710 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
30711 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
30712 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
30714 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
30715 directory every time you regenerate it.
30716 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
30717 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
30720 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
30721 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30722 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
30723 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
30724 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
30727 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
30729 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
30730 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
30731 TLS errors better in other situations too.
30732 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
30733 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
30734 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
30735 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
30736 and don't log when you are.
30737 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
30738 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
30740 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
30741 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
30742 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
30743 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
30744 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
30747 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
30748 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
30749 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
30750 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
30751 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
30752 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
30753 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
30754 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
30755 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
30756 nickname+key are allowed.
30757 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
30758 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
30759 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
30760 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
30761 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
30762 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
30763 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
30764 have quite wrong clocks).
30765 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
30766 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
30767 - Efficiency improvements:
30768 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
30769 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
30770 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
30771 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
30772 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
30773 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
30774 lowercase and be done with it.
30775 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
30776 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
30777 to abandon partially built circuits.
30778 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
30779 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
30781 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
30783 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
30784 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
30785 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
30786 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
30788 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
30789 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
30791 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
30792 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
30793 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
30794 obeying the exit policy internally.
30795 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
30796 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
30798 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
30799 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
30800 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
30801 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
30803 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
30804 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
30805 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
30806 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
30807 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
30809 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
30810 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
30811 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
30812 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
30813 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
30814 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
30815 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
30816 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
30817 descriptors we just dropped.
30818 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
30819 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
30820 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
30821 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
30822 artificially capped at 500kB.
30825 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
30826 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30827 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
30828 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
30829 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
30830 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
30831 busy for more than 100 seconds.
30834 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
30835 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
30836 - Fixes on reachability detection:
30837 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
30838 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
30839 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
30840 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
30841 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
30842 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
30843 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
30844 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
30845 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
30846 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
30847 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
30848 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
30849 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
30850 server not already connected to them.
30851 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
30852 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
30853 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
30855 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
30857 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
30858 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
30859 are in a different state than they actually are.
30860 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
30861 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
30862 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
30864 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
30865 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
30866 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
30868 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
30869 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
30870 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
30871 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
30872 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
30873 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
30874 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
30876 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
30877 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
30878 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
30879 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
30882 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
30883 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30884 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
30885 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
30886 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
30887 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
30888 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
30889 creating actual system users.
30890 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
30891 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
30895 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
30897 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
30898 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
30899 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
30900 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
30901 hidden services better.
30902 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
30904 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
30905 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
30906 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
30907 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
30908 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
30909 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
30910 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
30911 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
30912 patch by Matt Edman).
30913 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
30914 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
30915 required exit node for certain sites.
30916 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
30917 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
30918 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
30919 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
30920 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
30921 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
30922 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
30923 rather than just "success" or "failure".
30924 - A more sane version numbering system. See
30925 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
30926 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
30927 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
30929 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
30930 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
30931 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
30932 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
30933 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
30934 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
30935 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
30937 o Robustness/stability fixes:
30938 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
30939 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
30940 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
30942 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
30943 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
30944 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
30946 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
30947 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
30948 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
30950 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
30951 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
30952 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
30953 that will want high uptime circuits.
30954 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
30955 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
30956 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
30957 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
30958 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
30959 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
30960 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
30961 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
30962 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
30963 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
30964 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
30965 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
30966 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
30967 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
30968 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
30969 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
30970 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
30971 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
30972 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
30973 when we try to launch one.
30974 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
30975 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
30976 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
30977 "ShutdownWaitLength".
30978 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
30979 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
30980 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
30981 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
30982 and to take errno into account where possible.
30985 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
30986 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
30987 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
30988 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
30989 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
30990 file more reasonable.
30991 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
30992 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
30993 addresses -- it won't.
30994 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
30995 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
30996 for google.com" problem.
30997 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
30998 so it's not just "unknown platform".
30999 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
31000 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
31001 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
31002 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
31004 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
31005 they could use instead.
31006 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
31007 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
31008 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
31009 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
31010 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
31011 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
31012 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
31013 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
31014 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
31016 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
31020 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
31021 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
31023 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
31024 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
31025 private-IP addresses.
31026 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
31027 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
31029 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
31030 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
31031 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
31032 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
31033 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
31034 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
31035 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
31037 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
31038 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
31039 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
31040 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
31041 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
31042 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
31043 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
31044 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
31046 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
31048 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
31049 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
31050 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
31051 whether the server is hibernating.
31054 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
31055 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
31056 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
31057 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
31058 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
31059 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
31060 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
31061 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
31062 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
31063 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
31064 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
31065 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
31066 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
31067 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
31068 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
31070 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
31071 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
31072 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
31073 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
31074 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
31075 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
31076 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
31077 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
31078 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
31079 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
31080 existing torrc files.
31081 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
31084 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
31085 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
31086 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
31087 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
31088 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
31089 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
31090 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
31091 the win32 SYSTEM account.
31092 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
31093 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
31094 file descriptors available.
31095 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
31096 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
31097 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
31100 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
31101 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31102 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
31103 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
31105 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
31106 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
31107 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
31108 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
31109 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
31111 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
31112 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
31113 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
31114 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
31115 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
31116 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
31117 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
31118 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
31119 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
31120 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
31121 800kB/s of capacity.
31122 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
31125 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
31126 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31127 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
31128 need as much processor time.
31129 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
31130 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
31131 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
31132 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
31133 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
31134 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
31135 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
31136 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
31137 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
31138 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
31139 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
31140 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
31142 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
31143 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
31144 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
31145 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
31146 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
31147 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
31148 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
31151 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
31152 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
31153 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
31155 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
31156 style address, then we'd crash.
31157 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
31158 a dirserver is broken.
31159 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
31161 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
31162 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
31163 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
31165 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
31166 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
31167 name out of the warning/assert messages.
31168 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
31169 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
31170 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
31172 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
31173 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
31174 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
31176 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
31178 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
31179 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
31180 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
31181 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
31182 values at once couldn't work.
31183 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
31184 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
31185 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
31186 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
31187 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
31188 they can handle any number of routers.
31189 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
31190 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
31191 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
31192 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
31193 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
31194 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
31195 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
31196 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
31197 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
31200 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
31201 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31202 - Make hibernation actually work.
31203 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
31204 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
31205 don't use the stream status code.
31208 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
31210 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
31211 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
31213 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
31216 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
31217 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
31218 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
31219 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
31220 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
31221 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
31222 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
31223 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
31224 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
31225 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
31227 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31228 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
31229 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
31230 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
31231 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
31232 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
31233 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
31234 - Make unit tests work on win32.
31237 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
31238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
31239 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
31241 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
31242 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
31243 than just chopping them off.
31244 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
31246 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31247 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
31248 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
31249 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
31250 right after sending the begin cell.
31251 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
31252 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
31253 exit nodes too. Oops.
31256 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
31257 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
31258 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
31259 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
31260 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
31261 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
31262 the user knows which one it's talking about.
31263 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
31264 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
31265 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
31268 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
31269 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31270 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
31271 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
31273 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
31275 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
31276 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
31277 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
31279 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
31280 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
31281 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
31282 Clip rather than rejecting.
31283 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
31284 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
31287 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
31288 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
31289 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
31290 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
31292 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
31295 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
31296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31297 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
31298 win32 socket errors better.
31300 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31301 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
31304 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
31305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31306 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
31307 so we don't see those messages days later.
31309 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31310 - Make tor-resolve work again.
31311 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
31312 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
31315 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
31316 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31317 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
31318 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
31320 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
31321 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
31322 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
31325 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
31326 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31327 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
31328 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
31329 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
31330 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
31331 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
31332 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
31333 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
31335 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
31336 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
31337 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
31338 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
31340 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
31341 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
31344 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
31345 hibernation properties by
31346 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
31347 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
31348 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
31349 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
31350 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
31351 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
31352 get back to normal.)
31353 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
31355 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
31356 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
31357 to fill the last cell completely.
31358 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
31361 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
31362 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31363 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
31364 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
31365 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
31366 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
31367 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
31368 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
31369 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
31370 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
31371 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
31373 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
31374 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
31375 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
31376 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
31377 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
31378 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
31379 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
31380 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
31382 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
31383 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
31384 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
31385 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
31386 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
31387 have it on start-up.
31390 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
31391 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
31392 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
31393 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
31394 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
31395 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
31396 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
31397 configuration to torrc.
31398 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
31399 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
31400 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
31401 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
31402 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
31404 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
31405 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
31406 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
31407 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
31408 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
31409 log more informatively.
31410 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
31411 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
31412 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
31413 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
31414 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
31415 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
31416 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
31417 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
31418 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
31419 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
31420 from each other, to hinder linkability.
31423 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
31424 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
31425 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
31426 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
31427 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
31428 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
31429 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
31431 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
31432 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
31433 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
31434 they ran out of file descriptors.
31435 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
31436 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
31437 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
31438 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
31439 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
31440 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
31441 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
31443 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
31446 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
31447 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
31448 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
31449 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
31450 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
31451 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
31452 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
31453 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
31454 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
31455 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
31456 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
31457 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
31458 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
31459 with the control port.
31460 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
31461 use in authenticating to the control interface.
31462 - New log format in config:
31463 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
31464 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
31467 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
31468 from their dirserver.
31469 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
31471 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
31472 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
31473 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
31474 them act more like real nodes.
31475 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
31476 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
31478 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
31479 nickname to its identity key.
31480 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
31481 not on the command line.
31482 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
31483 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
31484 1024) file descriptors.
31486 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
31487 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
31489 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
31490 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
31491 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
31494 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
31495 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
31496 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
31497 exit policy, not reject *:*.
31498 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
31499 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
31500 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
31501 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
31502 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
31503 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
31504 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
31507 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
31508 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
31509 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
31510 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
31511 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
31512 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
31513 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
31516 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
31517 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31518 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
31519 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
31520 the ones we find in directories.)
31521 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
31523 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
31524 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
31526 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
31527 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
31528 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
31530 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
31531 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
31532 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
31533 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
31535 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
31536 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
31537 any more exit policy lines.
31540 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
31541 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
31542 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
31543 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
31544 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
31545 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
31546 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
31547 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
31548 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
31549 will be able to get a directory.
31550 - Http proxy support
31551 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
31552 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
31553 be routed through this host.
31554 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
31555 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
31556 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
31557 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
31560 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
31562 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
31563 clients/servers with an open dirport.
31564 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
31565 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
31566 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
31567 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
31568 intermittent connections.
31569 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
31570 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
31572 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
31573 in reporting stats locally.
31574 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
31575 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
31576 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
31579 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
31581 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
31582 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
31585 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
31587 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
31588 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
31589 if you don't want it open.
31590 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
31591 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
31592 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
31593 intermittent connections.
31594 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
31596 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
31597 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
31598 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
31599 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
31600 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
31601 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
31602 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
31603 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
31604 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
31605 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
31606 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
31607 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
31608 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
31609 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
31610 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
31611 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
31614 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
31615 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
31616 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
31617 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
31618 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
31620 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
31622 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
31623 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
31624 specified in HTTP 1.0.
31625 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
31626 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
31627 than once per minute.
31628 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
31629 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
31632 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
31633 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
31636 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
31637 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
31638 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
31639 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
31642 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
31643 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
31645 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
31646 don't put it into the client dns cache.
31647 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
31648 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
31649 until we get our next directory.
31651 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
31652 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
31653 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
31654 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
31655 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
31656 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
31657 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
31658 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
31659 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
31660 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
31661 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
31663 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
31665 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
31666 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
31668 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
31669 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
31670 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
31672 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
31674 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
31675 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
31676 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
31677 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
31678 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
31679 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
31680 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
31681 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
31684 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
31685 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
31686 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
31687 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
31690 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
31691 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
31692 ask them to resolve the host "".
31695 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
31696 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
31697 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
31698 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
31699 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
31700 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
31701 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
31702 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
31703 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
31704 clients don't use this yet.)
31705 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
31706 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
31707 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
31708 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
31709 for pointing out this bug.)
31710 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
31711 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
31712 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
31713 kazaa, gnutella ports.
31714 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
31716 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
31717 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
31718 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
31719 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
31720 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
31721 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
31722 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
31723 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
31724 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
31725 wolf unpredictably.
31726 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
31727 that's still handshaking.
31728 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
31729 you'll choose it for your path.
31730 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
31731 end relay cell, etc.
31732 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
31733 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
31734 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
31737 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
31738 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
31740 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
31741 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
31742 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
31743 list to decide who's running or verified.
31744 - Bugfixes and features:
31745 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
31746 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
31747 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
31748 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
31749 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
31750 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
31752 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
31753 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
31754 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
31755 know you might want to get it verified.
31756 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
31759 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
31761 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
31762 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
31763 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
31764 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
31766 o Protocol changes:
31767 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
31768 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
31769 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
31770 hadn't heard of before.
31773 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
31774 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
31775 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
31776 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
31777 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
31778 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
31779 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
31780 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
31781 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
31782 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
31783 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
31784 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
31785 - Directory caching.
31786 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
31787 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
31788 directory they've pulled down.
31789 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
31790 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
31791 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
31792 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
31793 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
31794 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
31795 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
31797 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
31798 This isn't used yet.
31799 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
31800 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
31801 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
31802 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
31803 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
31804 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
31805 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
31806 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
31807 - File and name management:
31808 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
31809 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
31811 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
31812 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
31813 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
31814 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
31815 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
31816 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
31817 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
31819 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
31820 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
31821 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
31822 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
31823 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
31825 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
31826 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
31827 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
31828 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
31829 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
31830 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
31831 - New docs in the tarball:
31833 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
31836 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
31837 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
31838 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
31841 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
31842 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
31843 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
31846 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
31847 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
31850 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
31851 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
31852 - Make it build on Win32 again.
31853 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
31854 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
31858 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
31860 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
31861 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
31862 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
31863 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
31864 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
31865 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
31866 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
31867 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
31868 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
31869 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
31872 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
31875 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
31876 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
31877 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
31878 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
31880 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
31881 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
31882 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
31884 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
31885 hidden service per 15-minute period.
31886 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
31887 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
31888 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
31889 o Fixes for security bugs:
31890 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
31891 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
31892 a trusted dirserver.
31894 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
31895 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
31896 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
31897 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
31898 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
31899 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
31900 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
31901 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
31902 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
31903 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
31905 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
31906 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
31907 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
31908 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
31910 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
31911 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
31912 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
31913 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
31914 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
31915 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
31916 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
31917 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
31918 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
31919 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
31920 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
31921 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
31922 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
31925 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
31926 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
31927 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
31928 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
31931 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
31932 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
31933 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
31934 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
31935 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
31936 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
31937 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
31941 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
31942 [version bump only]
31945 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
31946 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
31947 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
31948 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
31949 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
31951 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
31954 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
31955 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
31956 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
31957 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
31958 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
31959 o Better debugging for tls errors
31960 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
31961 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
31962 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
31963 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
31964 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
31965 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
31966 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
31967 o win32's close can't close a socket.
31970 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
31971 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
31972 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
31973 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
31974 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
31975 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
31976 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
31977 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
31978 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
31979 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
31980 just close the circ.
31981 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
31982 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
31983 (this was quite rare).
31986 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
31987 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
31988 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
31989 if you decrypted them correctly.
31990 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
31991 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
31992 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
31995 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
31996 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
31997 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
31998 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
31999 a second one and it works.
32000 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
32001 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
32002 alice would just have to wait to time out.
32003 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
32004 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
32005 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
32006 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
32007 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
32008 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
32009 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
32010 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
32011 i'd still like to find the bug though.
32012 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
32014 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
32018 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
32019 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
32020 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
32021 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
32022 he retries a couple of times
32023 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
32024 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
32025 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
32026 too long (they were sticking around forever).
32027 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
32031 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
32032 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
32033 - make hup work again
32034 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
32035 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
32036 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
32037 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
32038 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
32039 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
32041 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
32042 o changes from 0.0.5:
32043 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
32044 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
32045 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
32046 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
32047 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
32049 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
32050 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
32051 in-memory directories too
32054 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
32055 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
32058 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
32060 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
32061 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
32062 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
32063 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
32066 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
32067 [version bump only]
32070 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
32071 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
32073 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
32074 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
32075 but that aren't warnings
32078 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
32079 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
32080 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
32081 the dns farm to do it.
32082 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
32083 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
32085 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
32086 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
32087 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
32090 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
32091 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
32092 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
32093 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
32094 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
32095 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
32096 expect it to have a nickname.
32097 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
32098 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
32101 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
32102 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
32106 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
32107 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
32108 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
32109 - include missing header fcntl.h
32110 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
32111 - deal with hardware word alignment
32112 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
32113 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
32114 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
32115 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
32116 by kill -USR1 currently.
32117 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
32118 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
32119 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
32122 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
32123 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
32124 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
32127 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
32129 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
32130 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
32131 - And fix a few endian issues.
32134 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
32136 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
32137 try that circuit again: try a new one.
32138 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
32139 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
32140 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
32141 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
32142 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
32143 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
32145 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
32146 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
32147 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
32149 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
32151 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
32152 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
32153 side isn't reading right then.
32154 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
32155 RecommendedVersions
32156 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
32157 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
32158 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
32161 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
32163 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
32164 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
32167 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
32171 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
32173 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
32174 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
32175 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
32176 connection is finished.
32177 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
32178 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
32179 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
32180 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
32181 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
32182 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
32183 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
32184 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
32185 rather than warn and continue.
32186 - Make --version work
32187 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
32190 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
32192 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
32193 knows it's working.
32194 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
32195 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
32197 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
32198 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
32199 so you can collect coredumps there.
32201 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
32202 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
32203 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
32204 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
32205 dns cache actually gets populated.
32206 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
32207 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
32208 end cell down it first.
32209 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
32210 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
32213 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
32215 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
32216 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
32218 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
32219 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
32220 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
32221 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
32222 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
32223 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
32225 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
32227 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
32228 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
32229 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
32230 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
32231 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
32232 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
32234 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
32235 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
32238 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
32240 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
32241 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
32242 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
32243 tor. It even has a man page.
32244 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
32245 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
32246 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
32247 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
32249 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
32251 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
32254 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
32256 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
32257 it, apt-getters. :)
32258 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
32259 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
32260 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
32261 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
32262 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
32263 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
32264 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
32265 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
32266 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
32267 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
32268 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
32270 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
32271 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
32274 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
32276 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
32277 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
32280 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
32282 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
32283 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
32284 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
32285 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
32286 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
32287 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
32288 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
32289 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
32290 logfile so you know it's working.
32291 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
32292 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
32295 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
32297 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
32298 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
32299 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
32302 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
32304 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
32305 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
32306 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
32309 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
32310 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
32311 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
32313 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
32314 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
32316 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
32317 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
32318 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
32320 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
32321 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
32325 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
32327 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
32328 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
32329 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
32332 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
32333 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
32334 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
32335 - Add port ranges to exit policies
32336 - Add a conservative default exit policy
32337 - Warn if you're running tor as root
32338 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
32339 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
32340 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
32341 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
32343 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
32346 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
32347 o Robustness and bugfixes:
32348 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
32349 really screw things up.
32350 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
32352 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
32353 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
32355 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
32356 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
32357 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
32358 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
32359 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
32360 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
32363 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
32366 - Change default loglevel to warn.
32367 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
32368 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
32370 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
32373 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
32374 o Robustness and bugfixes:
32375 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
32376 - to get ownership/permissions right
32377 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
32378 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
32379 pull down a directory again
32380 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
32381 causing server crashes
32382 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
32383 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
32384 - exit if bind() fails
32385 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
32386 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
32387 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
32388 - fix minor bias in PRNG
32389 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
32392 - Wrote the design document (woo)
32394 o Circuit building and exit policies:
32395 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
32397 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
32398 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
32399 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
32400 exists, rather than failing
32401 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
32402 which AP connections are standing by
32403 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
32404 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
32405 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
32407 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
32408 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
32411 - APPort is now called SocksPort
32412 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
32414 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
32415 hardcoded (for dirservers)
32416 - Reloads config on HUP
32417 - Usage info on -h or --help
32418 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
32421 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
32422 o General stability:
32423 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
32424 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
32425 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
32426 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
32427 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
32428 to take down the network when I approve a new router
32429 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
32432 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
32433 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
32435 o Autoconf improvements:
32436 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
32437 - Make install now works
32438 - create var/lib/tor on make install
32439 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
32440 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
32442 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
32443 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
32444 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
32445 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup