1 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
2 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
3 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
4 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
5 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
6 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
9 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
10 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
11 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
12 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
13 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
14 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
15 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
16 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
17 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
18 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
19 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
20 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
21 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
24 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
25 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
26 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
29 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
30 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
31 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
33 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
34 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
35 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
36 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
37 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
38 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
39 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
40 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
41 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
42 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
43 router's identity is not forgeable.
45 o Major bugfixes (relay):
46 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
47 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
48 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
49 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
50 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
51 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
52 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
53 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
54 bugfix on every version of Tor.
56 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
57 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
58 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
59 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
62 o Minor features (diagnostic):
63 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
64 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
65 help diagnose bug 7164.
66 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
67 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
68 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
69 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
70 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
72 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
73 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
74 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
75 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
76 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
77 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
78 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
80 o Minor features (security, memory management):
81 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
82 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
83 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
84 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
85 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
86 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
88 o Minor features (security):
89 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
90 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
91 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
92 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
94 o Minor features (build):
95 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
96 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
97 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
99 o Minor features (other):
100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
103 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
104 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
105 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
106 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
107 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
109 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
110 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
111 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
112 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
113 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
114 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
115 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
116 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
117 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
118 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
119 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
120 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
123 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
124 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
125 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
126 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
127 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
128 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
129 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
130 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
131 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
132 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
133 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
134 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
135 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
136 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
137 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
138 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
139 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
142 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
143 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
144 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
145 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
146 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
147 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
148 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
150 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
151 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
152 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
153 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
154 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
155 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
156 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
157 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
158 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
160 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
161 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
163 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
164 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
166 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
167 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
168 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
169 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
170 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
171 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
172 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
173 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
174 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
176 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
177 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
178 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
179 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
180 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
181 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
182 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
183 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
184 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
185 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
186 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
187 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
188 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
189 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
190 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
191 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
192 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
193 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
195 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
196 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
197 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
198 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
199 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
200 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
201 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
202 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
203 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
206 o Minor bugfixes (client):
207 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
208 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
209 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
210 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
212 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
213 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
214 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
215 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
217 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
218 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
219 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
220 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
221 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
222 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
223 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
224 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
226 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
227 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
228 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
229 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
232 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
233 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
234 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
235 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
236 versions. Found by "skruffy".
237 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
238 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
239 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
242 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
243 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
244 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
245 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
248 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
249 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
250 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
251 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
253 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
254 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
255 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
257 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
258 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
259 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
262 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
263 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
264 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
265 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
269 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
270 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
271 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
272 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
275 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
276 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
277 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
278 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
280 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
281 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
283 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
284 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
285 caches don't get confused.
288 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
289 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
290 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
291 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
292 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
295 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
296 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes #11742.
297 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
298 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
299 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
300 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
304 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
305 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
306 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
307 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
308 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
309 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
310 of RAM, and several others.
312 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
313 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
314 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
315 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
316 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
318 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
319 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
320 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
321 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
324 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
325 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
326 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
327 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
328 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
329 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
330 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
331 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
332 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
333 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
334 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
335 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
336 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
337 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
338 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
339 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
340 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
341 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
342 Resolves ticket 11438.
344 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
345 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
346 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
347 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
348 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
349 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
351 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
352 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
353 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
355 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
356 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
357 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
359 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
360 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
361 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
362 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
364 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
365 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
366 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
369 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
370 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
373 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
374 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
375 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
376 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
379 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
380 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
381 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
382 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
384 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
385 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
386 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
387 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
389 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
390 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
391 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
395 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
396 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
397 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
398 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
399 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
400 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
401 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
402 the Linux sandbox code.
404 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
405 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
406 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
408 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
409 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
411 o Major features (security):
412 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
413 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
414 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
415 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
416 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
417 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
418 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
419 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
421 o Major features (relay performance):
422 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
423 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
424 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
425 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
426 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
427 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
428 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
429 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
430 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
431 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
433 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
434 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
435 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
436 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
437 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
438 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
439 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
441 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
442 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
444 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
445 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
446 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
447 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
448 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
449 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
450 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
451 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
452 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
453 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
454 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
455 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
456 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
457 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
458 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
459 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
460 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
461 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
462 Resolves ticket 11438.
464 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
465 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
466 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
467 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
469 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
470 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
471 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
472 10267; patch from "yurivict".
473 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
474 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
475 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
476 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
477 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
478 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
480 o Minor features (security):
481 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
482 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
483 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
484 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
487 o Minor features (log verbosity):
488 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
489 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
490 Resolves ticket 5286.
491 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
492 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
493 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
494 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
495 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
496 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
497 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
498 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
499 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
501 o Minor features (relay):
502 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
503 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
504 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
506 o Minor features (controller):
507 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
508 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
510 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
511 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
512 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
514 o Minor features (bridge client):
515 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
516 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
517 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
519 o Minor features (diagnostic):
520 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
521 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
522 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
523 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
524 still referenced by a live node_t object.
526 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
527 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
528 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
529 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
531 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
532 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
533 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
534 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
537 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
538 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
539 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
541 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
542 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
543 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
544 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
545 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
546 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
547 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
549 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
550 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
551 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
552 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
553 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
554 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
555 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
556 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
557 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
558 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
559 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
560 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
561 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
564 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
565 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
566 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
567 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
568 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
570 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
571 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
572 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
575 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
576 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
577 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
579 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
580 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
581 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
583 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
584 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
585 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
586 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
588 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
589 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
590 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
591 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
592 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
594 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
595 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
596 early. Fixes bug 10081.
598 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
599 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
600 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
601 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
602 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
603 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
604 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
605 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
607 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
608 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
609 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
610 should never have affected anyone in practice.
612 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
613 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
614 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
616 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
617 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
618 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
619 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
620 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
621 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
622 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
623 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
624 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
625 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
626 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
627 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
628 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
629 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
631 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
632 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
633 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
634 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
635 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
636 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
637 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
638 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
642 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
643 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
644 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
645 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
646 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
647 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
648 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
649 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
651 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
653 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
654 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
655 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
656 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
657 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
660 o Deprecated versions:
661 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
662 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
663 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
664 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
667 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
668 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
669 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
670 Patch from Dana Koch.
673 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
674 Resolves ticket 11070.
677 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
678 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
679 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
680 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
681 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
684 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
685 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
687 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
688 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
689 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
690 streams attached to each circuit.
692 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
693 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
694 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
695 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
696 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
697 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
698 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
699 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
700 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
701 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
702 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
703 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
704 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
706 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
707 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
708 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
710 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
711 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
712 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
713 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
714 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
715 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
716 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
717 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
718 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
720 o Minor features (other):
721 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
722 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
723 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
724 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
725 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
726 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
727 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
728 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
732 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
733 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
734 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
735 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
736 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
737 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
738 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
739 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
741 o Minor bugfixes (client):
742 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
743 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
744 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
745 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
746 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
747 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
748 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
750 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
751 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
752 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
753 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
754 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
755 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
756 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
757 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
758 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
759 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
760 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
761 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
763 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
764 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
765 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
766 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
767 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
768 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
769 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
770 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
771 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
772 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
773 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
774 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
775 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
776 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
778 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
779 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
781 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
782 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
783 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
784 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
785 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
786 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
787 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
788 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
789 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
790 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
791 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
792 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
793 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
794 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
796 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
797 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
798 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
799 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
802 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
803 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
804 the rest of bug 10841.
807 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
808 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
809 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
810 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
811 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
812 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
813 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
814 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
815 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
816 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
817 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
818 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
819 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
820 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
821 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
823 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
824 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
825 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
827 o Test infrastructure:
828 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
829 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
830 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
831 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
834 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
835 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
836 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
837 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
839 o Major features (client security):
840 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
841 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
842 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
843 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
844 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
845 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
848 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
849 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
850 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
851 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
853 o Code simplification and refactoring:
854 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
855 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
856 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
857 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
860 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
861 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
863 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
864 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
865 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
866 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
867 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
868 GeoLite2 Country database.
871 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
872 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
873 bugfix on every released Tor.
874 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
875 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
876 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
877 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
878 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
879 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
880 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
881 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
882 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
883 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
884 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
885 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
886 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
887 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
888 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
890 o Documentation fixes:
891 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
892 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
895 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
896 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
897 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
898 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
899 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
900 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
901 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
902 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
904 o Major features (client security):
905 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
906 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
907 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
908 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
909 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
910 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
911 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
912 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
913 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
914 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
915 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
916 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
918 o Major features (bridges):
919 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
920 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
921 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
922 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
923 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
924 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
925 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
926 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
929 o Major features (other):
930 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
931 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
932 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
933 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
934 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
935 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
936 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
937 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
938 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
939 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
940 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
941 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
944 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
945 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
946 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
947 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
948 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
949 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
950 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
952 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
953 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
954 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
955 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
956 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
957 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
958 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
959 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
960 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
962 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
963 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
964 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
965 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
966 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
967 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
969 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
970 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
971 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
972 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
973 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
974 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
977 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
978 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
979 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
980 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
981 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
982 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
983 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
985 o Minor features (security):
986 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
987 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
990 o Minor features (config options and command line):
991 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
992 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
993 Implements ticket 10060.
994 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
995 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
996 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
998 o Minor features (controller):
999 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
1000 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
1001 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
1002 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
1003 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
1006 o Minor features (build):
1007 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
1008 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
1009 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
1010 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
1011 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
1012 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
1013 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
1015 o Minor features (testing):
1016 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
1017 the unit test scripts.
1018 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
1019 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
1020 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
1021 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
1023 o Minor features (log messages):
1024 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
1025 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
1026 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
1027 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
1028 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
1029 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
1030 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
1031 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
1032 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
1033 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1035 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1036 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1037 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1038 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1039 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1040 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1041 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1042 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1043 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1044 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
1047 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
1048 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
1049 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
1052 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1053 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
1054 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
1055 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
1056 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1058 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1059 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
1060 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
1061 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
1062 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
1063 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
1064 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
1066 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
1067 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
1068 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
1069 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
1070 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
1071 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
1072 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1074 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
1075 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
1076 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
1077 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1079 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
1080 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
1081 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
1082 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
1083 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
1084 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
1085 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
1086 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
1087 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
1088 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
1089 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1091 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1092 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
1093 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
1094 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
1095 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
1096 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
1097 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
1098 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
1099 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
1100 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
1102 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
1103 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
1104 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
1105 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
1108 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1109 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
1110 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
1111 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
1112 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
1113 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
1115 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
1116 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1118 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1119 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
1120 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
1121 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1123 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1124 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
1125 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
1126 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1127 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
1128 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
1129 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
1130 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1131 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
1132 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
1133 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
1134 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
1135 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
1136 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
1138 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
1139 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1140 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1141 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1142 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1143 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1145 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1146 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1147 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1148 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1149 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1150 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1151 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1152 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1153 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1154 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1155 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1156 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1158 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1159 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1160 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1161 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1162 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1163 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1164 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1165 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1166 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1167 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1168 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1169 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1170 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1171 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1172 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1173 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1176 o Removed code and features:
1177 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
1178 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
1179 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
1180 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
1181 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
1182 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
1184 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
1185 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
1186 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
1187 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
1188 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
1189 part of a fix for bug 10841.
1191 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1192 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
1193 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
1194 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
1195 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
1196 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
1197 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
1198 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
1199 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
1200 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
1201 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
1204 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
1205 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
1206 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
1207 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
1208 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1210 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
1211 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1212 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1213 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1214 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1215 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1216 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1219 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
1220 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
1221 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
1224 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
1225 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
1226 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
1227 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
1228 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
1229 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
1230 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
1232 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
1233 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
1236 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
1237 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
1238 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
1239 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
1240 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
1241 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
1242 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
1243 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
1245 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
1246 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1247 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
1248 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
1249 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
1250 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1253 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
1254 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1255 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
1256 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
1257 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
1260 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
1261 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
1262 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
1263 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
1264 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
1265 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
1266 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
1267 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
1269 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
1270 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
1271 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
1272 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
1273 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
1274 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
1275 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
1276 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
1277 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
1278 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
1279 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
1280 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
1281 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
1282 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
1283 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
1284 security, and privacy fixes.
1287 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
1288 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1289 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
1290 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
1293 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
1294 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
1295 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
1296 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
1297 them to solve bug 6033.)
1300 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
1301 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
1302 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
1303 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
1304 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
1305 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1306 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
1307 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
1309 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
1310 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
1311 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
1312 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1314 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
1315 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
1316 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1317 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
1318 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
1319 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
1320 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
1321 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
1322 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
1323 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1324 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
1325 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
1328 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
1329 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
1330 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
1331 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
1332 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1333 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
1334 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
1335 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1336 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
1337 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
1338 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
1339 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
1340 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
1341 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
1342 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
1345 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
1346 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
1347 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
1348 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
1349 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
1350 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
1351 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
1352 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
1353 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
1354 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
1355 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
1356 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
1357 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
1358 Implements part of proposal 222.
1360 o Minor features (other):
1361 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
1362 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
1363 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
1364 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
1365 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
1366 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
1367 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
1368 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
1369 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1371 o Documentation fixes:
1372 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
1373 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
1374 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
1375 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
1376 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
1377 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
1380 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
1381 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
1382 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
1383 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
1384 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
1385 release of the new branch.
1387 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
1388 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
1389 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
1391 o Major features (security):
1392 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
1393 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
1394 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
1395 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
1396 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
1397 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
1398 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
1399 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
1400 Google Summer of Code.
1401 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
1402 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
1403 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
1404 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
1405 them to solve bug 6033.)
1407 o Major features (other):
1408 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
1409 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
1410 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
1411 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
1412 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
1414 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
1415 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
1416 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
1417 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
1418 Implements ticket 8530.
1419 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
1420 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
1423 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
1424 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
1425 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
1426 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
1427 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
1428 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1429 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
1430 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
1431 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1432 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
1433 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
1434 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
1435 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1438 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
1439 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
1440 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
1441 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
1442 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
1443 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
1444 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
1445 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
1446 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
1447 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
1451 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
1452 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
1453 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
1454 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
1455 invoking the other functions it calls.
1456 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
1457 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
1458 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
1459 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
1461 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
1462 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
1463 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
1464 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
1465 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
1466 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
1467 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
1468 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
1469 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
1470 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
1471 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
1472 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
1473 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
1474 Implements part of proposal 222.
1476 o Minor features (config options):
1477 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
1478 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
1479 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
1480 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
1481 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
1482 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
1483 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
1484 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
1485 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
1486 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
1487 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
1488 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
1489 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
1490 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
1491 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
1492 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
1493 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
1496 o Minor features (build):
1497 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
1498 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
1499 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
1500 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
1501 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
1504 o Minor features (other):
1505 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
1506 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
1507 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
1508 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
1509 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
1510 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
1511 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
1512 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
1513 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
1514 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
1515 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
1516 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
1518 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1521 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
1522 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
1523 bugfix on every released Tor.
1524 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
1525 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
1526 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
1527 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
1528 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
1529 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
1531 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
1532 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
1533 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
1534 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1535 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
1536 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
1537 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
1538 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
1540 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
1541 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
1542 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
1543 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
1544 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
1546 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
1547 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1549 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
1550 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
1551 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
1553 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
1554 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
1555 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
1556 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
1557 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1559 o Minor code improvements:
1560 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
1561 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
1563 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
1564 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
1565 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
1566 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
1567 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
1570 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
1571 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
1572 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
1573 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
1575 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1576 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
1577 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
1578 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
1579 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
1580 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
1581 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
1582 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
1583 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
1584 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
1585 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
1586 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
1587 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
1588 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
1589 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
1590 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
1593 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
1594 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1595 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
1596 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
1597 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
1598 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
1599 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
1602 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
1603 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
1604 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
1605 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
1606 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
1607 Implements ticket 9574.
1610 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
1611 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
1612 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1613 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
1614 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
1615 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
1616 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
1617 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
1618 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1619 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
1620 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
1621 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
1625 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
1626 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
1627 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
1628 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
1630 o Minor fixes (config options):
1631 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
1632 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
1633 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
1634 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
1635 message is logged at notice, not at info.
1636 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
1637 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
1638 or we just won't work.)
1641 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
1642 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
1643 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
1644 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1647 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
1648 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1649 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
1652 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
1653 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
1654 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1655 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
1656 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1657 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
1658 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
1660 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
1661 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1662 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
1663 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
1666 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
1667 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
1668 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1669 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
1670 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
1671 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
1672 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
1673 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
1674 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
1675 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
1676 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1677 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
1678 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
1681 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1684 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
1685 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
1686 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
1687 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
1690 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
1691 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
1692 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1695 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
1696 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
1697 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
1700 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
1701 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
1702 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1705 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
1706 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
1707 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
1708 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
1709 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
1710 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
1712 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
1713 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
1714 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
1715 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
1716 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
1717 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1719 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
1720 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
1721 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1724 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
1725 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
1726 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
1727 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
1728 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
1730 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
1731 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
1732 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
1733 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
1734 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
1735 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
1736 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
1738 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
1739 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
1740 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
1742 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
1743 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
1747 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
1748 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
1749 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
1751 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
1752 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
1753 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
1754 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
1755 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
1756 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
1758 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
1759 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
1760 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
1761 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
1762 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
1763 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
1764 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
1767 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
1768 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
1769 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
1770 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
1771 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
1772 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
1773 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1774 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
1775 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1776 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
1777 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
1778 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1779 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
1780 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
1782 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
1783 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
1784 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
1785 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
1788 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1789 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
1790 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
1791 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
1792 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
1793 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
1795 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
1796 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
1800 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
1801 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
1802 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
1803 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
1804 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
1805 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
1806 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1808 o Removed documentation:
1809 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
1810 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
1812 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1813 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
1814 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
1815 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
1818 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
1819 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
1820 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
1821 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
1822 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
1823 variety of other issues.
1826 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
1827 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
1828 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
1829 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
1830 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
1831 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1832 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
1833 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
1835 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
1836 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
1837 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
1839 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
1840 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
1841 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
1842 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
1843 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
1844 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
1845 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1847 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
1848 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
1849 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
1850 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
1851 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
1852 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
1853 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
1854 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1855 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
1856 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
1857 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
1858 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
1859 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1860 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
1861 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
1862 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
1863 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
1864 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
1865 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
1866 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
1867 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1869 o Major bugfixes (other):
1870 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
1871 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
1872 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
1873 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1876 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
1877 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
1878 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
1879 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
1881 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
1882 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
1884 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1886 o Minor features (build):
1887 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
1888 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
1890 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
1891 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
1893 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
1894 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
1895 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
1898 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1899 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
1900 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1901 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1902 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
1903 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
1904 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1905 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
1906 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
1907 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1908 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
1909 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
1910 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
1911 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
1914 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
1915 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
1916 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
1917 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
1918 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
1919 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
1920 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
1921 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
1922 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
1923 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
1924 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
1925 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
1926 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
1927 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1928 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1931 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
1932 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1933 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
1934 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
1935 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
1936 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
1937 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1938 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
1939 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
1940 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
1941 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
1942 Should help resolve bug 8235.
1943 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
1944 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
1945 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
1946 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1948 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
1949 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
1950 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
1951 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
1952 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
1953 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
1954 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
1955 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
1958 o Minor bugfixes (config):
1959 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
1960 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
1962 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
1963 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
1964 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1965 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
1966 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
1967 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
1968 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1969 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
1970 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
1971 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
1972 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
1973 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
1974 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1975 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
1976 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
1979 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
1980 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
1981 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
1982 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
1983 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
1984 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
1985 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
1986 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
1988 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
1989 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
1990 or at least make it more diagnosable.
1991 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
1992 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
1993 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
1994 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1996 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
1997 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
1998 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
1999 the relaxed timeout log message.
2000 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
2001 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
2002 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
2004 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
2005 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
2006 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2007 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
2008 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2009 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
2010 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
2013 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
2014 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
2015 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
2016 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
2017 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2018 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
2019 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2020 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
2021 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2022 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
2023 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
2024 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
2025 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2026 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
2027 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
2028 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
2029 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2031 o Documentation fixes:
2032 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
2033 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
2034 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
2035 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
2036 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
2037 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
2038 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
2039 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
2042 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
2043 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
2047 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
2048 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
2049 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
2050 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
2052 o Major features (directory authorities):
2053 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
2054 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
2055 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
2056 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
2057 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
2058 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
2059 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
2060 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
2061 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
2062 Implements ticket 8151.
2064 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2065 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
2066 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
2067 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
2068 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
2070 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2071 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
2072 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
2073 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
2074 whether authentication information is present, causing all
2075 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
2076 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
2078 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
2079 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
2080 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
2082 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
2083 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
2084 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
2085 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
2086 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
2087 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
2088 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
2089 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
2090 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
2091 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
2092 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
2093 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
2094 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
2095 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
2096 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
2097 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
2098 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
2099 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
2102 o Minor features (portability):
2103 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
2104 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2105 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
2106 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
2107 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
2108 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
2109 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
2110 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2112 o Minor features (other):
2113 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
2114 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
2115 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
2116 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
2117 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
2118 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
2119 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
2120 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
2122 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2125 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
2126 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
2127 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
2128 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
2129 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2130 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
2131 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
2132 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
2133 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
2135 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
2136 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
2137 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
2138 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2140 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2141 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
2142 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
2143 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
2144 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
2145 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
2146 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
2148 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
2149 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
2150 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
2151 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
2152 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
2154 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
2155 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
2156 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
2157 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
2159 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2160 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
2161 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
2164 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
2165 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
2166 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2167 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
2169 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
2170 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
2171 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
2172 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2174 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
2175 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
2176 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
2178 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
2179 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
2180 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
2181 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
2183 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
2184 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
2185 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2186 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
2187 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
2188 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
2189 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2191 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2192 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
2196 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
2197 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
2198 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
2199 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
2200 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
2203 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2204 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
2205 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
2206 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2208 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
2209 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
2210 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
2214 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
2215 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
2216 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
2217 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
2218 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
2219 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
2220 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
2221 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
2222 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
2223 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2224 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
2225 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
2226 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
2229 o Major features (relay):
2230 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
2231 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
2232 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
2233 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
2234 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
2235 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
2236 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
2238 o Major features (portability):
2239 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
2240 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
2241 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
2242 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
2243 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2246 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
2247 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
2248 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
2249 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
2250 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
2251 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
2253 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
2254 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
2255 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
2256 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
2257 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
2258 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
2259 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
2260 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
2262 o Minor features (path selection):
2263 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
2264 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
2265 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
2266 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
2267 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
2268 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
2269 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
2270 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
2271 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
2272 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
2273 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
2274 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
2275 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
2276 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
2277 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
2278 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
2279 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
2280 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
2281 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
2283 o Minor features (log messages):
2284 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
2285 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
2286 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
2287 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
2290 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
2291 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
2292 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2293 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
2294 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
2295 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
2296 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
2297 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
2298 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
2299 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2300 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
2301 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2303 o Build improvements:
2304 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
2305 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
2306 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
2307 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
2308 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
2309 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
2310 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
2311 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
2312 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
2313 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
2314 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
2315 than to perform erroneously.
2318 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
2319 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
2320 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
2322 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
2323 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
2324 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
2327 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2328 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
2330 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
2331 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
2335 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
2336 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
2340 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
2341 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
2342 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
2346 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
2347 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
2348 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
2349 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
2352 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
2353 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
2354 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
2355 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
2356 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
2357 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
2358 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
2359 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
2360 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
2361 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
2362 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
2365 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
2366 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
2367 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
2368 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
2369 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
2370 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
2371 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
2372 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
2373 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
2374 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
2375 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
2377 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
2378 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
2379 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
2381 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
2382 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
2383 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
2385 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
2387 o Major features (better link encryption):
2388 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
2389 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
2390 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
2391 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
2392 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
2393 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
2396 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
2397 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
2398 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
2399 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
2400 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
2401 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
2402 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
2404 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
2405 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
2406 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
2407 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
2409 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
2412 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
2413 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
2414 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2417 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
2418 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
2419 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
2420 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
2421 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
2422 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
2423 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
2424 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
2425 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2427 o Minor features (testing):
2428 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
2429 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
2430 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
2432 o Minor features (path bias detection):
2433 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
2434 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
2435 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
2436 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
2437 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
2438 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
2439 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
2440 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
2441 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
2442 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
2443 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
2444 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
2445 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
2446 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
2447 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
2448 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
2449 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
2450 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
2451 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
2452 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
2453 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
2454 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
2455 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
2456 detection capability loss.
2458 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2459 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
2460 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
2461 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
2462 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2463 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
2464 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
2465 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
2468 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2469 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
2470 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
2471 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
2472 and the different handshakes it supports.
2473 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
2474 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
2475 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
2476 any encoding is overkill.
2479 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
2480 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
2481 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
2482 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
2483 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
2484 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
2485 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
2486 and fixes a variety of other issues.
2488 o Major features (client resilience):
2489 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
2490 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
2491 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
2492 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
2493 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
2494 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
2495 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
2496 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
2497 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
2498 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
2499 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
2500 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
2501 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
2502 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
2503 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
2505 o Major features (IPv6):
2506 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
2507 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
2508 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
2509 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
2510 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
2511 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
2512 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
2513 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
2515 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
2516 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
2518 o Major features (geoip database):
2519 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
2520 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
2521 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
2522 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
2523 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
2524 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
2525 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
2526 Country database, as modified above.
2528 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
2529 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
2530 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
2531 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
2532 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
2533 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
2534 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
2535 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
2536 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
2537 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
2538 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
2539 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
2540 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
2541 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
2542 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
2543 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
2544 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
2547 o Major bugfixes (other):
2548 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
2549 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
2550 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
2551 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
2552 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
2553 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
2554 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
2555 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
2557 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
2558 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
2561 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
2562 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
2563 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
2564 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
2565 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
2566 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
2567 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
2568 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
2570 o Minor features (IPv6):
2571 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
2572 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
2573 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
2574 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
2575 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
2576 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
2577 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
2578 connect to the wrong addresses.
2579 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
2580 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
2581 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
2582 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
2586 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
2587 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
2588 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
2590 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
2591 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
2592 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
2594 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
2595 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
2596 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
2599 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
2600 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
2602 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2603 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
2604 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
2605 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
2606 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
2609 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
2610 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
2611 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
2612 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
2613 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
2614 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
2615 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
2616 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
2618 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
2619 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
2620 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
2621 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
2622 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
2623 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
2624 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
2625 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
2626 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
2627 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
2628 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
2631 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
2632 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
2633 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
2634 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
2635 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
2636 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
2637 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
2638 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
2639 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
2640 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
2643 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
2644 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
2648 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
2649 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
2650 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
2651 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
2654 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
2655 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
2657 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
2658 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
2659 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
2660 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
2661 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
2662 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
2663 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
2664 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
2665 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
2666 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
2669 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
2671 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
2672 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
2673 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
2674 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
2675 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
2678 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
2679 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
2680 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2681 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
2682 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
2684 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
2685 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2686 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
2687 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
2688 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
2689 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
2690 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
2692 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
2693 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2694 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
2695 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
2696 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
2697 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2698 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
2699 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2701 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2702 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
2703 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
2704 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
2705 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
2706 present the same extensions.)
2709 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
2710 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
2711 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
2712 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
2713 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
2715 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
2716 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
2717 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
2718 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
2720 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
2721 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
2722 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
2723 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2725 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
2726 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
2727 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
2728 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
2729 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
2730 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
2731 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
2732 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
2733 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2735 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
2736 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
2737 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
2738 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
2739 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2742 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
2743 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
2744 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
2746 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2747 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
2749 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
2750 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
2754 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
2755 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
2756 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
2757 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
2760 o Major bugfixes (security):
2761 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
2762 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
2763 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
2765 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
2766 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
2767 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
2768 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2771 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
2772 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
2773 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
2774 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
2775 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
2776 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
2777 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
2778 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2781 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
2782 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
2783 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
2784 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2787 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
2788 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
2789 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
2790 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
2791 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
2792 scheduling algorithms.
2794 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
2795 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
2796 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
2798 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
2799 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
2800 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
2801 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
2802 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
2803 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
2804 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
2805 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
2806 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
2807 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
2808 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
2810 o Internal abstraction features:
2811 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
2812 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
2813 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
2814 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
2815 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
2816 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
2817 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
2818 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
2819 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
2820 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
2821 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
2822 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
2823 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
2824 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
2825 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
2826 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
2827 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
2829 o Required libraries:
2830 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
2831 strongly recommended.
2834 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
2835 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
2836 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
2837 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
2838 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
2839 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
2840 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
2841 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
2842 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
2844 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
2845 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
2846 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
2847 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
2848 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
2849 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
2850 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
2851 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2852 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
2853 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
2854 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
2855 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
2856 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
2857 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
2858 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2861 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
2862 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
2863 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
2864 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
2865 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
2866 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
2867 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
2868 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
2869 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
2870 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
2871 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
2872 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2873 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
2874 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
2875 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2876 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
2877 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
2878 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
2879 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
2881 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
2882 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
2883 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
2884 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
2885 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
2886 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
2887 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
2890 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
2891 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
2892 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
2893 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
2895 o New directory authorities:
2896 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
2897 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
2899 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
2900 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
2901 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
2902 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
2903 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
2904 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
2905 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
2906 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
2907 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
2908 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
2909 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
2912 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
2913 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
2914 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
2916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
2917 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
2918 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
2919 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2920 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
2921 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
2922 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2923 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
2924 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
2926 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2927 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
2928 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
2929 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
2930 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
2931 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
2932 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
2933 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
2934 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
2935 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
2936 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
2937 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
2938 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2939 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
2940 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
2941 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
2942 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
2943 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
2945 o Documentation fixes:
2946 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
2949 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
2950 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
2951 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
2952 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
2955 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
2956 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
2957 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2960 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
2961 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
2962 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
2963 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
2964 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
2965 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
2966 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
2967 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2969 o Security features:
2970 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
2971 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
2972 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
2973 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
2974 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
2975 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
2976 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
2977 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
2978 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
2982 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
2983 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
2984 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
2987 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
2988 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
2989 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2990 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
2991 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2992 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
2993 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
2994 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
2995 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
2996 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
2997 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2998 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
2999 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
3000 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
3002 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
3003 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3004 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
3005 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
3006 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
3009 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
3010 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
3011 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3012 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
3013 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
3014 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3015 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
3016 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
3017 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
3018 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
3019 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
3020 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
3021 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3022 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
3023 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
3024 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3025 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
3026 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
3027 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
3029 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3030 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
3031 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
3032 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
3033 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
3034 testable, and a little less fragile too.
3035 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
3036 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3038 o Documentation fixes:
3039 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
3040 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
3044 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
3045 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
3049 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3050 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3051 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3054 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3055 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3059 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
3060 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
3064 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
3065 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
3066 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3067 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3068 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3069 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3070 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3074 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
3075 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
3076 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
3077 log messages less noisy.
3080 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
3081 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
3085 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
3086 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
3087 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
3088 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
3089 last time we raised it).
3092 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
3093 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
3095 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
3096 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
3097 part of ticket 6736.
3098 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
3099 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
3100 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
3104 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
3105 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
3106 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3107 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
3108 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
3110 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
3111 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3112 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
3113 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
3114 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3115 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
3116 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
3117 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3118 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
3119 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3120 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
3121 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3124 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
3125 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
3126 bunch of compatibility code.
3129 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
3130 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
3131 the ORPort and the DirPort.
3134 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
3135 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
3136 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
3137 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
3139 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
3140 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3141 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
3143 o Major features (bridges):
3144 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
3145 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
3146 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
3149 o Major features (IPv6):
3150 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
3151 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
3152 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
3153 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
3154 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
3155 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
3156 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
3157 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
3158 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
3160 o Major features (build):
3161 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
3162 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
3163 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
3164 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
3165 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
3166 fixes by Jim Meyering.
3167 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
3168 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
3169 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
3171 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
3172 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
3173 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
3174 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
3175 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
3176 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
3177 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
3178 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
3179 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
3180 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
3181 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
3183 o Minor features (streamlining);
3184 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
3185 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
3187 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
3188 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
3189 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
3190 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
3191 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
3192 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3194 o Minor features (controller):
3195 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
3197 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
3198 Implements ticket 4971.
3200 o Minor features (IPv6):
3201 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
3202 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
3203 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
3204 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
3205 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
3207 o Minor features (log messages):
3208 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
3209 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
3210 Resolves ticket 6758.
3211 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
3212 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
3213 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
3214 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3215 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
3216 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
3217 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
3219 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
3220 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
3221 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
3222 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3223 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
3226 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3227 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
3228 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
3229 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
3230 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
3232 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
3233 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
3234 Implements ticket 5529.
3235 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
3236 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
3237 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
3238 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
3239 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
3240 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
3241 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
3242 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
3243 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
3244 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
3247 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
3248 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
3249 from a source distribution.)
3252 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
3253 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3254 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
3255 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
3256 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
3257 and cleans up other smaller issues.
3259 o Major bugfixes (security):
3260 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
3261 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
3262 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
3263 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
3264 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
3265 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
3266 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
3267 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
3268 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
3269 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
3270 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
3271 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3272 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
3273 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
3274 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
3275 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
3279 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
3280 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
3281 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
3282 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3283 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
3284 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
3285 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
3286 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
3287 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
3288 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3291 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
3292 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
3293 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
3294 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
3295 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3296 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
3297 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
3298 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
3299 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
3300 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
3301 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
3303 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
3304 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
3305 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
3307 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
3308 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
3309 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
3310 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
3311 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3312 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
3313 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
3314 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
3315 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3316 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
3317 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3318 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
3319 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
3320 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
3323 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3324 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
3325 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
3326 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
3327 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3328 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
3329 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
3330 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
3331 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
3332 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
3333 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
3334 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
3335 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
3336 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
3337 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3340 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
3341 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
3342 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
3343 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
3344 Resolves ticket 6732.
3347 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
3348 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
3349 attack that could in theory leak path information.
3352 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3353 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3354 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3355 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3356 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3357 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3358 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3359 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3360 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3361 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3362 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3363 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3364 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3365 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3368 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
3369 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3370 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
3371 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
3374 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
3375 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
3376 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3377 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
3378 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
3379 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3380 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
3381 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
3382 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
3383 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
3384 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
3385 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
3386 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
3387 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
3388 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
3389 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
3390 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3393 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
3394 a little more useful.
3395 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
3396 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3397 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
3398 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
3399 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
3400 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
3401 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
3404 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
3405 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3406 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
3407 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3408 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
3409 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
3413 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
3414 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
3415 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
3416 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
3417 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
3420 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
3421 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
3422 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
3425 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
3427 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
3429 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3430 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
3431 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
3432 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
3433 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
3436 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
3437 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3438 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
3439 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
3440 since the beginning of Tor.
3443 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
3444 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
3445 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
3446 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
3447 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
3448 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
3449 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
3450 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3451 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
3452 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3455 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
3456 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
3459 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
3460 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3461 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3462 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3465 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
3466 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3467 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
3468 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
3469 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
3470 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3472 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3473 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
3474 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
3475 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
3476 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
3477 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
3478 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3479 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
3480 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
3481 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
3482 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
3483 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
3484 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
3485 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3486 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
3487 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
3488 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3489 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
3490 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3492 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3493 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
3494 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
3496 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
3497 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3498 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
3499 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
3501 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
3502 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3503 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
3504 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3505 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
3506 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
3507 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3508 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
3509 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3510 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
3511 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3512 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
3513 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
3514 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3515 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
3516 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
3519 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
3520 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
3521 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
3522 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
3523 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
3526 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
3527 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
3528 options. Closes bug 4748.
3531 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
3532 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
3533 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
3534 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
3535 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
3539 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
3540 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
3542 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
3543 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
3544 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
3545 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
3546 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
3547 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
3548 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
3549 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
3550 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
3553 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
3554 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
3555 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
3556 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
3557 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
3558 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
3559 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
3560 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3563 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
3564 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
3565 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
3566 case for flushing marked connections.
3567 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
3568 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3569 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
3570 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
3571 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
3572 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
3573 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3574 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
3575 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3576 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
3577 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
3578 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
3579 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3580 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
3581 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
3582 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
3583 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3584 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
3585 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3586 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
3587 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
3588 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
3589 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3590 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
3591 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
3593 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
3594 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3595 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
3599 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
3600 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
3601 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
3602 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
3603 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
3604 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
3605 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
3606 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
3607 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
3608 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
3609 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
3610 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
3611 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
3612 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
3613 Addresses ticket 5458.
3614 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3616 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3617 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
3618 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
3621 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
3622 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
3623 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
3627 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
3628 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
3629 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
3630 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
3631 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
3632 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
3633 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3634 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
3635 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
3636 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
3637 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3640 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
3641 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
3644 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
3645 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
3648 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
3649 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
3650 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
3651 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
3652 that get us closer to a release candidate.
3654 o Major bugfixes (general):
3655 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
3656 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
3657 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
3658 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
3659 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
3660 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
3661 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3662 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
3663 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
3665 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
3666 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
3667 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
3668 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
3671 o Major bugfixes (clients):
3672 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
3673 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
3674 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
3675 which introduced predicted ports.
3676 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
3677 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
3678 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
3679 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3680 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
3681 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
3682 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
3683 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
3684 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
3685 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
3686 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3687 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
3688 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
3690 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3691 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
3692 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
3693 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
3694 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
3695 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
3696 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
3697 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
3698 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
3699 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
3700 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
3704 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
3705 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
3706 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
3707 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
3708 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
3709 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
3710 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
3711 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
3712 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
3713 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
3714 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
3715 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
3716 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
3717 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
3719 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
3720 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
3721 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
3722 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
3723 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
3724 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
3725 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
3726 sure. Closes bug 5139.
3727 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
3728 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
3729 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
3730 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
3731 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
3732 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
3733 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3735 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
3736 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
3737 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
3738 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
3739 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
3740 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
3741 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
3742 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
3743 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
3744 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
3745 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
3746 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
3747 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
3748 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
3749 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
3750 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
3751 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
3752 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3753 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
3754 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
3756 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3757 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
3758 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
3759 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
3760 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
3761 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
3762 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
3763 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
3764 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
3765 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
3766 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
3767 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
3768 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
3770 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
3771 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3772 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
3773 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
3775 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
3776 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
3777 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3778 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
3779 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
3780 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3781 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
3782 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
3783 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
3784 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
3786 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
3787 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
3788 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
3790 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
3791 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
3792 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
3793 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
3794 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
3795 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
3796 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
3797 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
3798 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3799 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
3800 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
3801 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3802 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
3803 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
3804 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
3805 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3806 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
3807 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
3808 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
3809 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
3811 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
3812 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
3813 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3814 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
3815 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
3816 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
3818 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
3819 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
3820 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
3822 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
3823 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
3824 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
3825 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3826 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
3827 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3829 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
3830 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
3831 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
3833 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
3834 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
3835 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3836 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
3837 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
3838 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3839 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
3840 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
3841 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
3842 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3843 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
3844 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
3845 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
3846 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
3847 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
3848 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
3850 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
3851 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
3852 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3853 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
3854 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
3855 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3856 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
3857 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3858 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
3859 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3860 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
3861 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
3862 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
3865 o Documentation fixes:
3866 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
3867 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
3868 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
3869 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
3870 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
3871 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
3874 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
3875 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
3879 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
3880 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
3881 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
3882 and fixes several crash bugs.
3884 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
3885 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
3886 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
3887 those packages and upgrade anyway.
3889 o Directory authority changes:
3890 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
3891 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
3895 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
3896 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
3897 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
3898 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
3899 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
3900 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
3901 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
3902 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
3903 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
3904 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
3905 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
3906 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
3907 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
3908 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
3909 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
3910 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
3911 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
3912 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
3913 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
3914 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
3915 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
3916 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
3917 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
3918 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
3919 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
3920 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
3921 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
3924 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
3925 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3926 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
3927 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
3929 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
3930 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
3932 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
3933 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
3934 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
3935 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
3936 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
3937 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
3938 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
3939 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
3942 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
3943 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
3944 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
3945 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
3946 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
3947 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
3948 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
3949 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
3950 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
3951 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
3952 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
3953 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
3954 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
3955 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
3956 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
3957 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
3958 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
3959 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
3960 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
3961 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
3962 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
3963 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
3964 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
3965 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
3966 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
3967 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
3968 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
3969 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
3970 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
3971 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
3972 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
3973 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
3974 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3975 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
3976 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3977 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
3978 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
3979 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
3980 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
3981 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3982 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
3983 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3984 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
3985 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
3986 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
3987 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3989 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
3990 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
3991 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
3992 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
3993 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
3994 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
3995 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
3996 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
3997 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
3998 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
3999 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4000 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
4001 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4002 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
4003 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
4006 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
4007 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
4008 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
4009 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
4011 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4014 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
4015 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
4016 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
4017 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
4018 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
4019 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
4020 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
4023 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
4024 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
4025 the development branch build on Windows again.
4027 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4028 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
4029 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
4030 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
4031 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
4032 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
4033 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
4034 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
4035 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
4036 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
4037 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
4038 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
4039 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4040 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
4041 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
4043 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4044 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
4045 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
4046 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4047 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
4049 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
4050 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
4051 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
4052 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
4053 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
4054 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4057 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
4058 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
4059 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
4060 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
4061 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
4062 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
4063 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
4064 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
4065 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
4068 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
4069 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
4070 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
4071 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
4075 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
4076 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
4077 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
4078 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
4080 o Directory authority changes:
4081 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
4085 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
4086 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4087 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
4088 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
4090 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
4091 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
4092 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
4093 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
4095 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
4096 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
4097 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4099 o Major features (performance):
4100 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
4101 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
4102 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
4103 much faster than other AES implementations.
4105 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
4106 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
4107 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
4108 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
4109 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
4110 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
4111 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
4112 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
4113 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
4114 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
4115 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
4116 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
4117 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
4118 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
4119 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4120 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
4121 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
4122 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4124 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
4125 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
4126 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
4127 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4128 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
4129 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4130 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
4131 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
4132 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
4134 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
4135 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
4136 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4137 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
4138 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
4139 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
4142 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
4143 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
4144 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
4145 please let us know about it.
4146 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
4147 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
4148 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
4149 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
4150 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4151 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4152 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
4153 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
4155 o Default torrc changes:
4156 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
4157 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
4159 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
4160 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
4161 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
4165 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
4166 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
4167 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
4168 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
4171 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
4172 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
4173 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
4174 it would be a bad idea to start.
4177 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
4178 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
4179 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
4180 that get us closer to a release candidate.
4182 o Directory authority changes:
4183 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
4186 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
4187 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
4188 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
4189 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
4190 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
4191 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
4192 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
4193 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
4194 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
4195 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
4196 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
4197 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
4198 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
4199 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
4200 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
4201 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
4203 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
4204 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
4205 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
4206 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
4207 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
4208 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4209 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
4210 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
4211 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4212 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
4213 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
4214 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
4216 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
4217 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
4218 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4219 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
4220 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
4222 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4223 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
4224 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
4225 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
4226 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
4227 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
4228 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
4229 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
4230 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
4231 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
4232 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
4233 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
4234 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4235 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
4236 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4237 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
4238 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
4239 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
4240 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
4241 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
4242 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
4243 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
4246 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4247 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
4248 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4249 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
4250 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
4251 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
4252 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
4253 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
4254 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4255 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
4256 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
4257 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
4258 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
4259 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
4260 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
4261 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
4262 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
4265 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
4266 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
4267 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4270 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
4271 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
4272 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
4273 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
4276 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
4277 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
4279 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
4280 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
4281 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
4282 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4283 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
4284 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
4285 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
4286 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4287 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
4288 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
4289 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
4290 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4293 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
4294 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
4295 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
4296 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
4297 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
4298 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
4299 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4302 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
4303 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
4304 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
4305 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4306 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
4307 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
4308 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
4309 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
4310 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
4311 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
4313 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
4314 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
4315 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
4316 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
4317 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4318 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
4319 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
4320 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
4321 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
4324 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4325 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
4326 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
4330 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
4331 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
4332 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
4333 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
4334 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
4335 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
4338 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
4339 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
4340 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
4341 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
4342 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
4343 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
4344 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
4345 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
4347 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
4348 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
4349 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
4350 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
4351 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
4352 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
4353 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
4354 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
4356 o Major security workaround:
4357 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
4358 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
4359 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
4360 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
4361 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
4362 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
4363 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
4364 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
4365 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
4366 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
4367 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
4370 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
4371 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
4372 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
4373 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
4374 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
4375 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
4376 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
4377 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4378 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
4379 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
4380 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
4381 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
4382 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
4384 o Minor features (controller):
4385 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
4386 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
4387 file. Resolves bug 1101.
4388 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
4389 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
4390 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
4391 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
4392 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
4393 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
4395 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
4396 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
4397 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
4398 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
4399 part of ticket 3457.
4400 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
4401 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
4402 circuit-status' control-port command.
4404 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4405 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
4406 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
4407 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
4408 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
4410 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
4411 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
4412 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
4413 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
4414 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
4415 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
4416 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
4418 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
4419 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
4421 o Minor features (other):
4422 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
4423 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
4424 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
4425 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
4426 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
4427 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
4428 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
4429 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
4431 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
4432 them from the other auths.
4433 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
4434 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
4435 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
4436 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
4438 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4441 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
4442 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
4443 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
4444 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
4445 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
4446 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
4447 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
4448 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
4449 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
4450 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4451 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
4452 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
4453 be disabled using the new
4454 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
4455 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4456 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
4457 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
4458 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
4459 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
4460 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
4461 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
4462 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
4463 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
4464 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
4465 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
4467 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
4468 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
4469 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
4472 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4473 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
4474 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
4476 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
4477 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
4478 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
4479 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
4480 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4481 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
4482 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4484 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
4485 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
4486 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
4487 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
4488 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
4489 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
4490 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
4491 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
4493 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
4494 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
4495 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4496 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
4497 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
4498 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
4499 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
4500 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
4501 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
4504 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4505 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
4506 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
4507 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
4508 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
4509 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
4510 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
4511 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
4512 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
4513 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
4514 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
4515 accidentally been reverted.
4516 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
4517 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
4518 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
4519 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
4520 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
4521 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
4522 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
4523 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
4524 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
4525 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4526 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
4527 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
4528 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
4529 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
4530 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4531 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
4532 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4533 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
4534 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4537 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
4538 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
4539 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
4540 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
4541 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
4542 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
4543 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
4545 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4546 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
4547 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
4548 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
4549 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
4550 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
4551 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
4553 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
4554 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
4555 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
4556 invalid value, rather than just -1.
4557 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
4558 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
4559 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
4560 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
4561 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
4562 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
4563 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
4567 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
4568 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
4569 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
4571 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
4572 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
4573 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
4574 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
4575 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
4576 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
4577 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
4578 (which Tor does not do by default).
4580 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
4581 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
4582 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
4583 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
4584 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
4586 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
4590 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
4591 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
4592 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
4593 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
4596 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
4597 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
4598 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
4599 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
4600 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
4601 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
4602 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
4603 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
4604 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
4605 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
4606 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4609 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4612 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
4613 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
4614 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
4616 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
4617 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
4618 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
4619 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
4620 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
4621 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
4622 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
4623 (which Tor does not do by default).
4625 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
4626 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
4627 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
4628 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
4629 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
4631 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
4632 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
4633 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
4636 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
4637 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
4638 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
4639 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
4640 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
4642 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
4643 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
4646 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
4647 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
4648 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
4649 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
4650 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
4651 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
4652 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
4653 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
4655 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
4656 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
4657 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
4658 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
4659 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
4660 close based on processing a cell on it.
4661 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
4662 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
4663 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
4664 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4665 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
4666 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
4667 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4668 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
4669 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
4670 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
4671 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
4672 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
4673 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
4674 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
4675 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
4678 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
4679 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
4680 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
4681 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
4682 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
4683 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
4684 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
4686 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
4687 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
4688 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
4689 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
4690 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
4691 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4692 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
4693 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
4694 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4695 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
4696 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
4697 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
4698 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
4699 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4700 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
4701 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
4702 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
4703 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
4704 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4705 Reported by "troll_un".
4706 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
4707 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4708 Reported by "troll_un".
4709 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
4710 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
4711 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
4712 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
4715 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
4716 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
4717 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
4718 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
4719 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
4720 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
4721 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
4722 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
4723 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
4724 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
4725 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4727 o Packaging changes:
4728 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
4729 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
4732 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
4733 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
4734 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
4735 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
4736 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
4738 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
4739 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
4741 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
4742 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
4743 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
4744 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
4745 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4746 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
4747 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
4748 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
4749 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
4752 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4755 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
4756 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
4757 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
4758 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
4759 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
4760 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
4761 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
4764 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
4765 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
4766 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
4767 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
4768 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
4769 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
4770 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
4771 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
4772 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
4773 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
4774 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
4775 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
4776 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
4777 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
4778 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
4779 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
4780 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
4781 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
4782 Resolves ticket 4526.
4783 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
4784 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
4785 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
4786 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
4787 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
4788 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
4789 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
4790 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
4791 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
4792 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
4793 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
4794 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
4795 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
4796 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
4797 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
4798 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
4801 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
4802 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
4803 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
4804 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
4805 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
4806 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
4807 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
4808 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
4809 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
4810 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4812 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
4813 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
4814 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
4815 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
4816 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
4817 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
4818 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
4819 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
4820 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
4822 o Minor features (new/different config options):
4823 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
4824 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
4825 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
4826 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
4827 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
4828 Implements issue 933.
4829 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
4830 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
4831 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
4832 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
4833 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
4834 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
4835 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
4836 appending to the list.
4837 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
4838 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
4839 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
4840 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
4842 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
4843 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
4844 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
4845 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
4846 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
4847 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
4848 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
4849 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
4852 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
4853 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
4854 Resolves ticket 2474.
4855 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
4856 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
4857 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
4858 Required by fix for bug 3460.
4859 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
4860 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
4861 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
4862 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
4863 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
4864 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
4865 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
4866 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
4867 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
4869 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4870 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
4871 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
4873 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
4875 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
4876 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
4878 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
4879 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
4880 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
4881 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
4882 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
4883 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
4884 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
4886 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
4887 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
4888 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4889 Reported by "troll_un".
4890 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
4891 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4892 Reported by "troll_un".
4893 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
4894 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
4895 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
4896 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
4898 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
4899 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
4901 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
4902 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
4903 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
4904 with help from wanoskarnet.
4905 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
4906 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4909 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
4910 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
4911 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
4912 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4914 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
4915 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
4916 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
4917 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
4918 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
4919 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
4920 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
4921 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
4924 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
4925 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
4926 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
4927 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
4928 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
4929 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
4930 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
4931 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
4932 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
4935 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
4936 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
4937 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
4938 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
4940 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
4941 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
4942 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
4943 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4944 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
4945 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
4946 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
4947 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
4948 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
4949 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
4950 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
4951 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
4952 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
4953 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
4954 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
4955 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
4956 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
4957 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
4958 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
4959 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
4960 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
4961 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
4962 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
4963 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
4966 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
4967 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
4968 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
4969 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
4970 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
4971 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4972 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
4973 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
4976 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4977 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
4978 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
4979 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
4980 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
4981 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
4982 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
4983 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
4984 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
4985 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
4986 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
4987 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
4988 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
4989 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
4990 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
4992 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
4993 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
4994 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
4995 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
4996 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4997 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
4998 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
4999 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5000 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
5001 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
5002 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
5003 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
5004 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
5005 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5006 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
5007 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
5008 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5010 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5011 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
5012 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
5013 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
5014 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5016 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
5017 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
5018 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
5020 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
5021 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
5022 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
5024 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
5025 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
5027 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
5028 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5031 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
5032 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
5033 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
5034 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
5035 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
5036 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
5037 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
5038 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
5039 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
5040 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
5041 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
5042 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
5043 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
5044 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
5046 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
5047 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
5048 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5050 o Packaging changes:
5051 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
5052 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
5054 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5055 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
5056 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
5057 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
5058 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
5059 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
5060 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
5061 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
5062 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
5065 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
5067 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
5068 ./src/test/bench binary.
5069 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
5070 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
5073 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
5074 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
5075 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
5079 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
5080 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
5081 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
5082 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
5083 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
5084 close based on processing a cell on it.
5085 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
5086 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
5087 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5088 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
5089 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
5090 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
5091 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
5092 cells were introduced.
5095 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
5096 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
5099 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
5100 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
5101 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
5102 users. Everybody should upgrade.
5104 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
5105 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
5108 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
5109 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
5110 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
5111 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
5112 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
5113 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
5115 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5116 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5117 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5118 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5119 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5120 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5121 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5122 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5123 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5124 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5125 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5126 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5127 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5128 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5129 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5130 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5131 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5132 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5135 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5136 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
5137 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
5138 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
5139 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
5140 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
5141 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
5142 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
5143 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
5144 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
5145 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
5146 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
5147 Partly fixes bug 3825.
5148 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5149 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5150 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5151 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5152 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5153 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5154 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5156 o Major bugfixes (other):
5157 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5158 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5159 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5160 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5161 Found by "frosty_un".
5162 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
5163 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
5164 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
5165 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
5166 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
5167 immensely in tracking this bug down.
5168 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5169 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5172 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5173 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5174 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5175 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5176 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5177 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5178 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
5179 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
5180 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5181 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5182 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5183 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5184 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5185 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5186 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5187 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5188 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5189 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5190 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5191 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5192 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5195 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
5196 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
5197 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5198 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
5199 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
5200 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
5201 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
5202 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
5203 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
5204 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
5207 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
5208 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
5209 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
5210 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
5211 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5212 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5213 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5214 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5215 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
5216 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
5217 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
5218 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
5219 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
5220 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5222 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5223 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
5224 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
5225 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
5226 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
5227 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
5228 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
5229 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
5232 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
5233 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
5234 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
5236 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
5237 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
5238 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
5239 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
5240 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
5241 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
5242 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
5243 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
5244 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
5245 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
5246 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
5247 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
5248 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
5250 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
5251 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
5252 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
5253 currently connected to them.
5255 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
5256 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
5257 remain; see for example proposal 188.
5259 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
5260 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5261 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5262 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5263 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5264 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5265 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5266 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5267 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5268 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5269 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5270 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
5271 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
5272 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
5273 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
5274 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
5275 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
5276 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
5279 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
5280 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
5281 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
5282 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
5283 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
5284 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
5285 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
5286 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5287 when bridges were introduced.
5288 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5289 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5290 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5291 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5292 Found by "frosty_un".
5295 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
5296 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
5298 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
5299 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
5300 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
5301 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
5302 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
5303 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
5304 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
5307 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
5308 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
5309 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
5310 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
5311 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
5312 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
5313 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
5314 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
5315 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
5316 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
5317 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
5318 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
5319 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
5320 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
5321 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
5322 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
5323 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
5324 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
5326 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
5327 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
5328 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
5329 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5330 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
5331 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
5332 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
5333 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
5334 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
5335 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
5336 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
5337 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5340 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5341 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5342 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
5343 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5346 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
5347 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
5348 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
5349 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
5350 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
5352 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5353 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
5354 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
5355 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
5356 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
5357 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
5358 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
5359 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
5360 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
5361 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5363 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5364 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
5365 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
5366 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
5367 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
5368 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
5369 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
5370 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
5371 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
5372 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
5373 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
5374 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
5375 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
5376 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
5377 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5378 Found by "frosty_un".
5379 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
5380 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
5381 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
5382 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
5383 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
5384 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
5385 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
5386 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
5387 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5388 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
5389 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
5390 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
5391 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5392 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
5393 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
5394 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
5395 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
5396 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
5397 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
5399 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5400 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
5401 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
5402 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
5403 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
5404 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
5405 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
5406 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
5408 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
5409 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
5410 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
5411 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
5412 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
5413 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
5414 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
5415 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
5416 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
5417 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
5418 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
5419 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
5421 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
5422 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5423 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
5424 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5425 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
5426 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5427 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
5428 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
5429 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
5431 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
5433 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
5434 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
5435 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
5436 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5437 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
5438 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
5439 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
5440 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5442 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
5443 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
5444 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
5445 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
5446 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
5448 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
5449 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
5450 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
5451 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
5452 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5455 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
5456 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
5457 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
5458 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
5459 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
5462 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
5463 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
5464 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
5465 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
5466 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
5467 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
5468 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
5469 when bridges were introduced.
5472 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
5473 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
5474 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5476 o Major features (networking):
5477 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
5478 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
5479 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
5480 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
5481 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
5485 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
5486 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
5487 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
5489 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5490 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
5491 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
5492 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
5493 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5495 o Minor features (diagnostics):
5496 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
5497 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
5500 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
5501 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
5502 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
5503 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
5504 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
5505 listed in the network consensus and republish.
5507 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
5508 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
5509 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
5510 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5512 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
5513 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
5514 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
5515 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
5516 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
5517 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
5518 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
5519 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
5520 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
5521 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
5522 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
5524 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
5525 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
5526 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
5527 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
5528 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
5529 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
5530 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
5531 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
5532 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
5533 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5535 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
5536 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
5537 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
5538 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
5539 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
5540 fixes part of bug 2442.
5541 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
5542 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
5543 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
5545 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
5546 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
5547 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
5548 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
5549 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5551 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
5552 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
5553 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
5554 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
5555 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
5558 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
5559 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
5560 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
5564 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
5565 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
5566 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
5567 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
5568 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
5569 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
5570 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
5573 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
5574 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
5575 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
5576 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
5577 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
5578 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
5579 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
5582 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
5583 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
5584 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
5585 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
5586 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
5587 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
5588 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
5589 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
5590 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5593 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
5594 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
5597 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
5598 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
5599 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
5600 reachable from Iran again.
5603 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
5604 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
5605 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5607 o Minor features (security):
5608 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
5609 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
5610 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
5611 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
5612 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
5613 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
5614 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
5615 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
5616 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
5617 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
5620 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
5621 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
5622 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
5623 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
5624 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
5625 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
5626 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
5627 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
5628 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5630 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
5631 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
5632 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
5633 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
5634 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
5636 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
5637 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
5638 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
5639 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
5640 fixes part of bug 2442.
5641 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
5642 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
5643 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
5645 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
5646 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
5647 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
5648 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
5649 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5652 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
5653 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
5654 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
5655 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
5656 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
5657 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
5660 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
5661 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
5662 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
5663 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
5664 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
5665 bufferevent-based networking backend.
5667 o Major features (stream isolation):
5668 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
5669 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
5670 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
5671 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
5672 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
5673 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
5674 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
5675 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
5676 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
5677 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
5678 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
5679 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
5680 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
5681 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
5683 o Major features (other):
5684 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
5685 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
5686 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
5687 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
5688 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
5689 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
5690 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
5691 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
5692 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
5693 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
5694 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
5695 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
5696 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
5698 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
5699 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
5701 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
5702 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
5703 Fixes part of bug 3752.
5704 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
5705 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
5706 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
5707 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
5708 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
5709 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
5710 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
5711 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
5712 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
5713 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
5714 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
5715 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
5716 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
5717 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
5718 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
5719 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
5720 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
5722 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
5723 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
5724 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
5725 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
5726 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
5727 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
5730 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
5731 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
5732 user. Implements ticket 1692.
5733 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
5734 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
5735 best copy data out of a buffer.
5736 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
5737 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
5738 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
5740 o Minor features (build compatibility):
5741 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
5742 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
5743 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
5745 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
5746 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5748 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
5749 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
5750 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5751 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
5752 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
5753 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
5754 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5756 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
5757 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
5758 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
5759 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
5760 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
5762 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
5763 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
5764 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
5767 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
5768 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
5769 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
5770 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
5771 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
5772 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
5773 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
5774 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
5775 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
5776 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
5777 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
5778 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5779 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
5780 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
5781 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
5782 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
5783 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
5784 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
5785 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
5788 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5789 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
5790 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
5794 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
5795 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
5796 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
5797 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
5798 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
5799 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
5802 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
5803 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
5804 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
5805 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
5806 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
5807 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
5808 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
5809 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
5810 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
5811 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
5813 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
5814 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
5815 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
5816 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
5817 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
5818 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
5819 many many other features and bugfixes.
5822 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
5823 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
5824 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
5827 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
5828 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
5829 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
5830 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
5831 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
5832 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
5833 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
5834 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
5837 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5840 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
5841 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
5842 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5843 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
5844 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
5845 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
5846 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
5847 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
5848 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
5849 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
5850 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
5851 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
5852 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
5853 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5854 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
5855 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
5856 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
5857 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
5861 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
5862 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
5863 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
5864 up a variety of recently introduced features.
5867 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
5868 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
5869 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
5870 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
5871 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
5872 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
5873 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
5874 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
5875 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
5876 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
5877 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
5878 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
5879 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
5880 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
5881 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
5882 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
5884 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
5885 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
5886 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
5887 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
5888 order. Fixes bug 2798.
5889 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
5890 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
5891 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
5892 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
5893 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
5894 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
5898 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
5899 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
5900 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
5901 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
5903 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
5904 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
5905 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
5906 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
5907 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
5908 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
5909 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
5910 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
5911 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
5912 Implements ticket 3264.
5913 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
5914 implements ticket 3439.
5916 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
5917 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
5918 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
5919 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
5920 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
5921 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
5922 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
5923 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
5924 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
5925 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
5926 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
5927 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
5928 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
5929 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
5930 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
5931 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
5932 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
5933 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
5934 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
5935 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
5936 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
5937 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
5938 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
5939 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
5940 fails. Spotted by coverity.
5941 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
5942 present. Found by coverity.
5943 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
5944 a directory cache that provides them.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5947 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
5948 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
5949 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
5950 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
5951 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
5953 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
5954 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
5955 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5956 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
5957 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
5958 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5959 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
5960 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
5962 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5963 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
5964 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
5965 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
5966 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
5967 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
5968 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
5970 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
5974 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
5975 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
5976 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
5979 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
5980 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
5981 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
5982 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
5985 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
5986 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
5987 discovered by katmagic.
5988 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
5989 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
5990 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
5991 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5992 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
5993 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
5994 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
5995 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5996 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
5997 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
5998 fixes part of bug 3465.
5999 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
6000 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
6004 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6007 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
6008 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
6009 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
6010 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
6011 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
6014 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
6015 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
6016 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
6017 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
6018 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
6021 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6022 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6023 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6024 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6025 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6026 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6029 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
6030 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
6031 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
6032 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6033 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6034 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
6035 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
6036 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
6037 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
6038 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
6039 fixes part of bug 3407.
6040 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
6041 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
6042 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
6043 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
6044 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
6045 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
6046 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
6047 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
6048 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
6049 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
6051 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
6052 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
6053 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
6054 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
6057 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6059 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6060 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
6061 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
6063 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
6065 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
6068 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
6069 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
6070 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
6071 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
6072 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
6073 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
6077 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
6078 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
6079 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
6080 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6081 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
6082 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
6083 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
6085 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
6086 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6087 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
6088 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
6089 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
6090 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
6091 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
6092 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
6093 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
6094 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
6095 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
6096 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
6097 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
6098 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
6099 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
6100 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
6101 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
6102 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
6103 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
6107 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
6108 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
6109 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
6110 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
6111 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
6112 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
6113 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
6114 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
6115 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
6119 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6120 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
6121 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
6123 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
6125 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
6126 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
6127 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
6128 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
6129 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6130 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
6131 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
6132 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
6133 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
6135 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
6136 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6137 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
6138 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
6139 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
6140 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
6142 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
6143 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
6145 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
6146 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
6147 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6150 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
6151 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
6152 Resolves ticket 3252.
6153 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
6154 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
6155 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
6156 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
6157 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
6158 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
6161 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6162 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6165 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
6166 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
6167 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
6170 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
6171 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6172 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
6173 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
6174 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
6177 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
6178 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6179 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
6180 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
6181 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
6182 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
6183 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
6184 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
6185 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
6189 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
6190 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
6191 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
6192 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
6193 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
6195 o Security/privacy fixes:
6196 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6197 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6198 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6199 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6200 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6201 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6202 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6203 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6204 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6205 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6206 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6207 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6208 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
6209 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
6210 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6213 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
6214 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
6215 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
6216 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
6217 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
6218 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
6219 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
6220 part of ticket 3076.
6221 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
6222 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
6223 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
6227 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
6228 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
6229 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
6230 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
6231 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
6232 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
6233 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
6234 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
6236 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
6237 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
6238 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
6239 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
6240 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
6241 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
6242 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
6243 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
6244 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
6245 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
6246 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
6247 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
6248 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6251 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
6252 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
6253 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
6254 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
6255 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6256 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6257 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6259 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
6260 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
6261 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
6262 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
6263 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
6264 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
6265 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
6266 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
6267 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
6268 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
6269 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
6270 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
6271 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
6272 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
6273 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
6274 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
6276 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
6277 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
6279 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
6280 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
6282 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
6283 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
6285 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
6286 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
6287 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6289 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
6290 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
6291 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
6292 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
6293 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6294 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
6295 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
6296 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
6297 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
6298 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
6299 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
6301 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
6302 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
6303 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
6304 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
6305 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
6306 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
6307 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
6308 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
6309 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
6310 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
6311 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6312 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
6313 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
6317 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
6318 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
6319 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
6323 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
6324 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
6325 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
6326 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
6327 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
6328 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
6330 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
6331 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
6332 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
6335 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
6336 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
6337 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
6338 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
6339 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
6340 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
6341 zero-copy transports where available.
6342 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
6343 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
6344 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
6345 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
6346 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
6347 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
6348 debug it as it breaks.
6349 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
6350 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
6351 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
6352 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
6353 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
6354 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
6355 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
6356 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
6357 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
6358 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
6359 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
6360 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
6361 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
6362 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
6363 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
6364 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
6365 PortForwarding option.
6366 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
6367 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
6368 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
6369 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
6370 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
6371 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
6372 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
6375 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
6376 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
6377 Implements enhancement 1668.
6378 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
6380 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
6381 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
6382 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
6383 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
6384 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
6385 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
6386 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
6388 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
6389 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
6390 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6391 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6392 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
6393 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
6394 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
6396 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
6397 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
6398 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
6399 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
6400 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
6401 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
6402 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
6404 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
6405 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
6406 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
6407 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
6408 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6409 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
6410 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
6411 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
6412 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
6413 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
6414 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
6415 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
6416 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
6417 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
6418 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
6421 o Minor features (controller):
6422 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
6423 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
6424 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
6425 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
6426 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
6427 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
6428 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
6431 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
6432 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
6433 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
6434 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
6435 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
6436 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
6437 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
6438 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
6440 o Minor packaging issues:
6441 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
6442 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
6444 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6445 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
6446 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
6447 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
6448 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
6449 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
6450 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
6451 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
6452 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
6453 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
6454 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
6455 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
6456 our library structure used to force them to link it.
6459 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
6460 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
6461 are no longer in use as servers.
6463 o Documentation fixes:
6464 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
6465 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
6466 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
6470 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
6471 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
6472 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
6473 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
6474 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
6475 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
6476 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
6477 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
6478 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
6479 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
6482 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
6483 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
6484 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
6485 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
6486 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
6487 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
6488 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
6489 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
6490 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
6491 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6492 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
6493 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
6494 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6495 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
6496 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
6497 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
6499 o Security and stability fixes:
6500 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
6501 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
6502 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
6503 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
6504 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
6505 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
6506 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
6507 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
6508 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
6509 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
6510 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
6511 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6512 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6513 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
6514 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
6515 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6518 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
6519 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
6520 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
6521 contributions to the network.
6523 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
6524 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
6525 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
6526 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
6527 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
6528 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
6529 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
6530 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
6531 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
6532 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
6533 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
6534 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
6535 connections to directory servers.
6536 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
6537 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
6538 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
6539 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
6540 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
6541 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
6542 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
6543 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
6544 information, or fetch directory information.
6545 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
6546 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
6547 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
6548 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
6549 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
6550 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
6551 unless you really want your Tor to break.
6552 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
6553 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
6554 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
6555 - When StrictNodes is 1:
6556 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
6557 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
6558 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
6559 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
6560 reachability self-tests.
6561 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
6562 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
6563 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
6564 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
6565 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6566 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
6567 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
6569 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
6570 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6571 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
6572 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
6573 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
6574 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6575 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
6576 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
6577 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
6578 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
6579 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
6582 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
6583 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
6584 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
6585 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
6586 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
6587 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6588 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
6589 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
6590 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
6591 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
6592 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
6593 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6594 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
6595 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
6596 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
6597 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
6598 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
6600 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
6601 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
6602 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
6603 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
6604 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6605 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
6606 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6607 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
6608 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6609 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
6610 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
6611 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
6612 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
6613 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
6614 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
6615 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6616 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
6617 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
6618 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
6619 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
6622 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
6623 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
6624 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
6625 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
6626 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
6627 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
6628 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
6629 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
6630 Required by fix for bug 3000.
6631 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
6632 by fix for bug 3000.
6633 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
6634 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
6636 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6637 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
6638 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
6639 send a body too). Since only server versions before
6640 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
6641 keep the workaround in place.
6642 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
6643 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
6644 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
6645 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
6646 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
6647 want to do it differently.
6648 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
6649 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
6650 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
6651 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
6652 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
6656 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
6657 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
6658 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
6659 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
6660 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
6663 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
6664 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
6665 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
6666 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
6667 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
6669 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
6670 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
6671 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
6672 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
6673 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
6674 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
6675 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
6676 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
6677 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
6678 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
6679 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
6680 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
6683 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
6684 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
6685 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
6686 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
6687 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
6688 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
6689 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
6691 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
6692 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
6693 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
6694 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
6695 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
6696 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
6697 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
6698 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
6699 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
6700 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
6701 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
6702 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
6703 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
6704 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
6705 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
6706 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
6707 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
6708 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
6709 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
6710 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
6711 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
6712 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
6713 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6716 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
6718 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
6719 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
6720 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
6722 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
6723 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
6724 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
6725 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
6727 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
6728 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
6729 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
6730 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6733 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
6734 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
6736 o Documentation changes:
6737 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
6738 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
6740 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
6743 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
6744 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
6745 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
6746 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
6747 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
6748 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
6751 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
6752 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
6753 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
6754 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
6755 the rest of bug 1074.
6756 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6757 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6758 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6759 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
6760 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
6761 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
6762 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6763 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
6764 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
6765 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
6766 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
6767 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
6768 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
6769 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6772 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
6773 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
6774 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
6775 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
6776 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
6777 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
6778 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
6779 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
6780 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
6781 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
6782 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
6783 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
6784 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
6785 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
6787 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
6788 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6789 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6790 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6791 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
6792 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
6794 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
6795 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
6796 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
6797 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
6798 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
6799 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
6800 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
6801 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
6802 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
6804 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
6805 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
6806 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
6807 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
6808 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
6809 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
6810 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
6811 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
6812 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
6813 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
6814 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
6815 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
6816 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
6817 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6818 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
6819 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
6821 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
6822 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
6823 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
6824 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
6825 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
6826 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
6828 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
6829 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
6830 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
6832 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
6833 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
6834 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
6835 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
6836 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
6837 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
6838 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
6840 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
6841 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
6842 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
6843 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
6844 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
6848 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
6849 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
6850 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
6851 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
6852 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
6853 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
6854 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
6855 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
6856 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
6857 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
6858 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
6859 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
6861 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6863 o Minor features (log subsystem):
6864 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
6865 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
6866 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
6868 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
6869 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
6871 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
6872 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
6873 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
6876 o Packaging changes:
6877 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
6878 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
6879 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
6882 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
6883 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
6884 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
6885 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
6886 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
6887 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
6890 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
6891 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
6892 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
6893 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
6894 the rest of bug 1074.
6895 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
6896 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6898 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
6899 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
6900 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
6901 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
6902 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
6903 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
6904 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6907 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
6909 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6912 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
6913 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
6914 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
6915 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
6916 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
6917 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
6918 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
6919 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
6920 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
6921 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
6922 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6924 o Packaging changes:
6925 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
6926 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
6927 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
6928 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
6929 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
6930 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
6933 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
6934 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
6935 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
6936 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
6937 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
6938 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
6941 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
6942 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6944 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
6945 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
6946 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
6947 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
6950 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
6952 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
6953 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
6954 Implements ticket 2432.
6957 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
6958 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
6959 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
6962 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
6963 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
6964 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
6965 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
6966 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
6967 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
6969 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
6970 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
6971 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
6972 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
6974 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
6975 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
6976 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
6977 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
6978 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
6979 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
6980 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
6981 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
6983 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
6984 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
6985 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
6986 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
6987 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
6988 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
6989 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
6990 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
6991 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
6992 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
6993 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
6994 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
6995 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
6996 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
6999 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
7000 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7001 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7002 bug reported by doorss.
7003 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7004 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7005 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7006 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7007 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7009 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7010 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7011 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7012 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
7013 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7015 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7016 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7017 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7019 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
7020 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7021 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7022 Automake 1.7 or later.
7023 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7024 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7025 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7026 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7028 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7029 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
7030 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
7033 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7034 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
7035 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
7036 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
7038 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7039 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
7040 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
7041 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
7042 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
7043 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
7044 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
7045 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
7046 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
7048 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
7049 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
7050 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
7053 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7054 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
7055 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
7056 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
7057 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
7058 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
7059 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
7060 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
7061 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
7062 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
7063 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
7064 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
7065 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
7067 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
7068 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
7072 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
7073 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
7074 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
7075 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
7076 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7078 o Major bugfixes (security):
7079 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7080 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7081 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7083 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7084 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7085 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7086 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7087 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7088 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7089 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7090 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
7092 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
7093 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
7094 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
7095 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
7096 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
7097 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
7098 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
7099 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
7100 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
7101 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
7102 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
7103 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
7104 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
7105 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
7108 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7109 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
7110 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
7111 bug reported by doorss.
7112 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
7113 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
7114 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7115 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
7116 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
7118 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
7119 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
7120 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
7121 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
7122 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
7123 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
7124 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
7125 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
7126 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
7129 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7130 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
7133 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
7134 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
7135 Automake 1.7 or later.
7138 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
7139 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7140 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
7141 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
7142 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
7145 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7146 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7147 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7148 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7149 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
7150 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
7151 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
7152 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
7153 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
7154 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
7155 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
7157 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
7158 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
7159 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
7160 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
7162 o Directory authority changes:
7163 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7166 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
7167 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
7168 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
7169 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
7170 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
7171 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7172 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
7173 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
7174 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
7177 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7178 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
7179 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
7180 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
7181 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
7182 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
7183 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
7184 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
7185 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
7186 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
7190 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
7191 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
7192 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
7193 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
7197 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
7198 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
7199 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
7200 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
7202 o Directory authority changes:
7203 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
7206 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7209 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
7210 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7211 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
7212 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
7213 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
7216 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7217 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7218 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7219 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7220 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7221 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7222 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7223 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7224 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7225 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7226 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7227 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7228 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7229 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7230 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7231 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7232 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7233 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7234 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
7235 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
7236 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
7237 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
7238 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
7241 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
7242 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
7243 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
7244 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
7246 o New directory authorities:
7247 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
7251 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
7252 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
7253 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
7255 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7256 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7257 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
7258 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
7259 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
7260 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
7262 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
7263 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
7264 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
7267 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
7268 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
7269 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
7270 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
7271 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
7272 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
7273 Patch from mingw-san.
7276 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
7277 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
7278 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
7279 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
7280 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
7281 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
7284 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
7285 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
7286 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
7289 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
7290 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
7291 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
7292 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
7293 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7296 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
7297 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
7298 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
7299 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
7300 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
7301 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
7302 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
7303 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
7304 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
7307 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
7308 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
7309 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
7310 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
7311 to a stable release.
7314 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
7315 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
7316 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
7317 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7318 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
7319 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
7320 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
7321 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
7322 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7323 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
7324 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7325 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
7326 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
7327 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
7328 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
7329 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
7330 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
7331 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
7332 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
7333 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
7334 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
7335 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
7336 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
7337 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
7338 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7339 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
7340 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
7341 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
7342 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
7343 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
7344 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
7347 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7348 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
7349 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
7350 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
7351 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
7352 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
7353 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7354 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7355 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7356 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7357 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7358 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7359 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7360 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7361 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
7362 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
7363 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
7365 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
7366 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
7367 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
7368 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
7369 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
7372 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
7373 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
7374 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
7377 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
7378 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
7379 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
7380 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
7381 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
7382 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
7383 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
7384 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7386 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7387 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
7388 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
7389 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
7390 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
7391 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
7392 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
7393 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
7394 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
7395 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
7396 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
7397 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
7398 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
7399 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
7400 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
7403 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
7404 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
7405 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
7406 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
7407 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
7408 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
7409 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
7410 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
7411 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
7414 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
7415 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
7416 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
7417 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
7418 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
7420 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
7421 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
7422 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
7423 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
7424 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
7425 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
7426 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7427 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
7428 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
7429 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
7430 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
7431 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
7432 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
7433 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
7435 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7436 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
7438 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
7439 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
7440 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
7441 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
7442 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
7443 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
7444 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
7445 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
7446 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
7447 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
7448 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
7449 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
7450 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
7451 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
7452 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
7453 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
7454 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
7455 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7457 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
7458 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
7459 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
7460 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
7461 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
7462 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
7463 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
7464 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
7465 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
7466 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
7467 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
7468 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
7469 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
7471 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
7472 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
7473 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
7474 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7477 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
7478 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
7479 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
7480 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
7481 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
7482 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
7483 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
7484 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
7485 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
7486 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
7487 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
7488 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
7489 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
7490 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
7491 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
7492 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
7493 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
7494 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
7495 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
7498 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7499 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
7500 based on the time during which we were active and not in
7501 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
7502 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
7503 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
7504 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
7505 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7507 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7508 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
7509 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
7510 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
7511 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
7512 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
7513 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
7514 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
7515 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
7516 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7519 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
7520 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
7521 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
7522 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
7524 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
7525 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
7526 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
7527 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
7528 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
7529 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
7530 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
7531 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
7532 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
7533 the longest-lived bug prize.
7534 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
7535 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
7536 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
7537 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
7538 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
7539 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
7541 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
7542 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
7543 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
7544 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
7545 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
7546 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
7550 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7551 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
7552 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
7553 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
7554 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
7555 got suppressed since the last warning.
7556 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
7557 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
7558 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
7559 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
7560 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
7561 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
7562 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
7563 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
7564 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
7565 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
7566 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
7567 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
7568 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
7569 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
7570 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
7571 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
7572 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
7573 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
7574 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
7576 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
7577 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
7578 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
7580 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7581 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
7582 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
7583 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
7584 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
7585 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
7586 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
7587 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
7588 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
7589 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
7590 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
7591 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
7592 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
7593 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
7594 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
7596 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
7597 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
7598 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
7599 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
7600 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
7601 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7602 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
7604 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
7605 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
7606 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
7607 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
7608 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
7611 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7612 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
7613 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
7614 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
7615 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
7616 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
7617 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
7618 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
7619 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
7620 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
7621 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
7622 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
7623 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
7624 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
7625 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
7626 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
7627 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
7628 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
7631 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
7634 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
7635 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
7636 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
7637 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
7638 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
7642 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
7643 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
7644 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
7645 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
7646 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
7647 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
7648 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
7649 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
7650 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
7651 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
7652 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
7653 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
7654 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
7655 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
7656 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
7657 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
7658 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
7661 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
7662 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
7663 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
7664 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
7665 they first get the Guard flag.
7666 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
7670 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7671 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
7672 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
7673 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
7674 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
7675 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
7676 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
7677 Patch from mingw-san.
7678 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
7679 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
7681 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
7682 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
7683 Implements enhancement 1790.
7685 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
7686 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
7687 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
7688 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
7689 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
7690 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
7691 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
7692 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
7693 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
7694 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
7695 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
7696 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
7697 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
7698 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
7699 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
7700 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
7701 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
7702 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
7703 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
7704 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
7706 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
7707 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
7708 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
7709 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
7710 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
7711 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
7712 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
7713 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
7714 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
7715 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
7716 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
7717 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
7718 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
7720 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
7721 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
7722 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
7723 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
7724 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
7725 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7727 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
7728 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
7729 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
7730 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
7731 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
7732 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
7733 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
7734 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7735 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
7736 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
7737 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
7738 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
7740 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
7741 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
7742 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
7743 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
7744 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
7745 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
7746 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
7748 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
7750 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
7751 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7752 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
7753 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
7754 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
7755 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
7757 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7758 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
7759 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
7760 structures and defines in or.h for now.
7761 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
7762 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
7763 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
7764 statistics code to be more easily tested.
7765 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
7766 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
7767 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
7770 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
7771 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
7772 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
7773 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
7774 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
7775 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
7779 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
7780 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
7781 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
7782 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
7783 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
7784 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
7785 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
7786 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
7787 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
7788 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
7789 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
7790 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
7791 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
7793 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
7794 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
7795 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
7796 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
7797 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
7798 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
7799 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
7800 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
7801 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
7802 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
7803 can be controlled by the consensus.
7806 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
7807 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
7808 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
7809 more accurate data for many African countries.
7810 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
7811 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
7812 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
7813 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
7814 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
7815 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
7816 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
7817 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
7818 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
7819 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
7820 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
7821 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
7823 o New directory authorities:
7824 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
7828 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
7829 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
7830 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
7831 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
7832 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
7833 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
7834 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
7835 what should go in a patch.
7836 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
7837 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
7838 over our stored history.
7839 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
7840 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
7841 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
7842 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
7843 file. Fixes bug 1296.
7844 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
7845 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
7846 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
7850 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
7852 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
7853 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
7854 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
7855 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
7856 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
7857 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
7858 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
7859 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
7860 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
7861 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
7862 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
7863 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7864 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
7865 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
7866 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
7867 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
7868 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
7869 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
7870 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
7871 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
7872 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
7873 two-hop circuits are actually created.
7874 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
7875 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7876 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
7877 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7880 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
7881 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
7882 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
7883 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
7884 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
7886 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
7887 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
7890 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
7891 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
7892 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
7893 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
7894 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
7895 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
7896 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
7897 their directory fetches over TLS).
7898 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
7899 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
7900 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
7901 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
7902 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
7903 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
7904 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
7905 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
7908 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
7909 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
7913 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
7914 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7915 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
7916 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
7917 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
7918 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
7919 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7922 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
7923 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
7924 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
7925 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
7926 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
7929 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
7930 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
7931 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
7932 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
7933 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
7934 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
7935 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
7936 their directory fetches over TLS).
7939 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
7940 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
7942 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
7943 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
7944 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
7945 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
7946 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
7947 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
7948 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
7949 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
7950 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
7951 hour of their uptime.
7954 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
7955 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
7956 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
7960 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
7961 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
7962 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
7963 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
7964 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
7965 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
7967 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
7968 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
7969 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
7971 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
7972 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
7976 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
7977 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
7978 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
7982 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
7983 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
7984 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
7987 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
7988 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
7989 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
7990 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
7991 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
7992 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
7993 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
7994 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
7995 about the option without breaking older ones.
7996 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
7997 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
7998 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
7999 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8002 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
8003 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
8004 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
8005 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
8007 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
8008 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
8009 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
8012 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
8013 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
8015 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
8016 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
8017 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
8018 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
8019 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
8020 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
8021 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8022 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
8023 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
8024 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
8025 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
8028 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8029 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8030 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8031 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8032 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8033 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8034 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8037 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
8038 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
8039 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
8040 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
8041 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
8042 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
8045 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8046 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8047 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8048 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
8050 o Major features (performance):
8051 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
8052 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
8053 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
8054 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
8055 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
8056 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
8057 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
8059 o Minor features (performance):
8060 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
8061 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
8062 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
8063 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
8064 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
8068 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
8069 speeds up the build considerably.
8071 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8072 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
8073 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8074 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
8075 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8076 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
8077 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
8078 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8080 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
8081 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8082 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8084 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8085 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8086 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8087 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8089 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8090 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
8091 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
8092 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
8093 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
8094 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
8097 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
8098 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
8099 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
8101 o Directory authority changes:
8102 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8103 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8104 service directory authority) from the list.
8107 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8108 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8109 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8110 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8111 libraries in a security patch.
8112 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8113 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8114 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8115 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8117 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
8118 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
8119 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
8120 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
8121 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8122 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8123 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8126 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
8127 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
8128 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
8129 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
8130 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
8131 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
8132 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
8133 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
8134 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
8135 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
8136 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
8137 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
8138 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
8140 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
8141 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
8142 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
8143 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
8144 control-spec.txt said they were.
8145 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8146 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8147 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
8148 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
8149 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8151 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8152 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
8153 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
8155 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
8156 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
8157 iPhone SDK versions.
8158 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
8159 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
8160 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
8161 projects directory in svn.
8162 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
8163 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
8164 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
8168 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
8169 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
8170 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
8172 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
8173 to the circuit build timeout.
8174 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
8175 arguments we do not recognize.
8176 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
8177 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
8178 open() without checking it.
8181 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
8182 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
8183 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
8184 several minor potential security bugs.
8187 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8188 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8189 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8190 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
8191 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8192 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8193 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8196 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8197 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8199 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8200 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8201 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8202 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8206 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
8207 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
8211 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
8212 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
8213 customized patches to run/build.
8216 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
8217 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
8218 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
8221 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8222 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8223 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8224 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8225 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8226 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8227 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8228 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8231 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8232 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8233 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8234 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8235 libraries in a security patch.
8236 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8237 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8238 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8239 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8242 o Directory authority changes:
8243 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
8244 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
8245 service directory authority) from the list.
8248 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8249 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8252 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8253 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8254 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8255 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8256 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8259 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
8260 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
8261 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
8265 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
8266 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
8267 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
8268 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
8269 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8272 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
8273 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
8274 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
8278 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
8279 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
8280 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
8281 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
8282 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
8284 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
8285 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
8287 o Directory authority changes:
8288 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8291 o Major features (performance):
8292 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8293 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8294 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8295 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8296 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8297 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8298 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8299 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
8300 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
8301 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
8302 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
8303 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
8304 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
8306 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
8307 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
8308 but never per-conn write limits.
8309 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
8310 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
8311 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
8312 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
8314 o Major features (relay selection options):
8315 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
8316 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
8317 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
8318 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
8319 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
8320 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
8321 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
8323 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
8324 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
8326 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
8327 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
8328 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
8329 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
8330 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
8331 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
8332 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
8333 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
8334 the network changes.
8337 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8338 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8339 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8342 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
8343 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
8344 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
8345 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
8346 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
8347 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
8348 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
8349 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
8350 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
8351 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
8352 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
8353 generated while acting as a relay.
8354 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
8355 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8356 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8357 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8358 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8359 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8361 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
8362 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
8363 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8364 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
8365 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
8366 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
8369 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
8370 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
8371 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
8373 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
8374 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
8375 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
8377 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
8378 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
8380 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
8381 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
8382 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
8384 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
8385 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
8388 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8389 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
8390 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
8391 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
8392 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
8393 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
8394 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
8395 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
8396 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
8398 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
8402 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
8403 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
8404 hidden service usage.
8407 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
8408 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
8409 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
8410 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
8411 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
8413 o Directory authority changes:
8414 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8418 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8419 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8420 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8423 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
8424 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
8425 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
8426 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
8427 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
8430 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
8431 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
8432 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
8433 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
8434 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
8435 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
8436 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
8439 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
8440 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
8441 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8442 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
8443 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
8444 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
8446 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
8447 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
8450 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
8451 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
8452 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
8453 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
8454 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
8455 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
8458 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
8459 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
8460 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
8462 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
8463 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
8464 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
8465 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
8466 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
8467 download consensus + microdescriptors".
8468 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
8469 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
8470 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
8471 hash algorithm in the future.
8472 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
8473 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
8474 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
8475 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
8476 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
8477 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
8478 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
8479 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
8480 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
8483 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
8484 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
8485 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
8486 won't work unless we say we are.
8489 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
8490 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
8491 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
8492 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
8493 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
8494 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
8495 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
8496 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
8497 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8498 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
8499 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
8500 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
8501 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
8502 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
8503 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
8504 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
8505 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
8506 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
8507 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
8508 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
8509 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
8510 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
8513 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
8514 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
8515 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
8516 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8518 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
8519 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
8521 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
8522 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
8523 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
8524 in the Vidalia Settings window.
8527 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
8528 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
8529 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
8530 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
8531 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
8533 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
8534 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
8536 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
8537 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
8538 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
8541 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
8542 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
8543 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
8545 o New directory authorities:
8546 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
8548 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
8551 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
8552 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
8554 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
8555 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
8556 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8557 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
8558 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
8559 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
8560 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8561 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8562 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
8563 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
8564 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
8565 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
8566 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
8567 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
8568 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
8569 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
8570 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
8572 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
8573 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
8574 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
8576 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
8577 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
8581 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
8582 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
8583 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
8584 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
8585 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
8588 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
8589 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8592 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8594 o Directory authorities:
8595 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
8599 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
8600 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
8601 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
8602 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
8603 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
8606 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
8607 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
8608 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
8609 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
8611 o New directory authorities:
8612 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
8615 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
8616 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
8617 SSL handshake issues.
8618 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
8619 during the TLS handshake.
8620 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
8621 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
8622 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
8623 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
8624 none of which are very big.
8627 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
8629 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
8630 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8631 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
8632 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
8633 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8634 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
8635 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
8636 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
8639 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8640 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
8641 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
8642 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
8643 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
8646 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
8647 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8650 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
8651 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
8654 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
8655 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
8656 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8659 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
8660 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
8661 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
8662 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
8663 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
8664 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
8667 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
8668 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
8669 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
8670 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
8671 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
8672 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
8673 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
8674 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
8675 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
8676 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
8677 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
8678 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
8679 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
8680 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
8681 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
8682 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
8683 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
8684 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
8687 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
8688 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
8692 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
8693 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
8694 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8695 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
8696 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
8697 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
8698 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8699 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
8700 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
8701 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
8702 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8703 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8704 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
8705 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
8706 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
8707 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
8708 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
8709 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
8710 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
8711 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
8712 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
8714 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
8715 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
8716 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
8717 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8718 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
8719 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
8721 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
8722 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
8723 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
8726 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
8727 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
8728 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
8729 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
8730 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
8731 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
8734 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
8735 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
8736 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
8737 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
8738 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
8741 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
8742 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
8743 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
8746 o New directory authorities:
8747 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
8751 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
8752 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
8753 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
8754 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
8755 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
8758 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
8759 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
8760 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
8761 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
8762 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
8765 o New options for gathering stats safely:
8766 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
8767 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
8768 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
8769 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
8770 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
8771 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
8772 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
8773 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
8774 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
8776 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
8777 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
8778 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
8779 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
8781 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
8782 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
8783 their extra-info documents.
8786 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
8787 source files Tor was built with.
8788 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
8789 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
8790 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
8791 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
8792 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
8793 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
8795 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
8796 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
8797 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
8798 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
8799 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
8801 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
8802 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
8805 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
8806 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
8807 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
8808 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
8809 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
8811 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
8812 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
8814 o Deprecated and removed features:
8815 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
8816 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
8817 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
8818 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
8819 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
8820 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
8821 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
8822 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
8824 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
8825 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
8826 via application-level web tricks.
8828 o Packaging changes:
8829 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
8830 installer bundles. See
8831 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
8832 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
8833 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
8834 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
8835 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
8836 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
8837 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
8838 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
8839 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
8840 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
8841 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
8842 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
8845 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
8846 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
8847 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
8850 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
8851 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
8852 part of patch provided by "optimist".
8855 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
8856 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
8857 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
8858 and confuse fewer users.
8861 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
8862 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
8863 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
8864 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
8865 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
8866 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
8867 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
8870 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
8871 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
8872 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
8873 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
8874 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
8875 other features and bug fixes.
8878 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
8881 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
8882 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
8883 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
8884 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
8885 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
8888 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
8889 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
8890 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
8891 failure message (oops).
8894 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
8895 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
8896 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
8897 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
8901 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
8902 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
8903 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
8904 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
8905 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
8906 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
8907 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8908 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
8909 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
8910 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
8911 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
8912 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
8913 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
8914 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
8915 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
8918 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
8919 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
8920 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
8921 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
8922 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
8923 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
8924 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
8925 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
8926 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
8927 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
8928 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
8929 Workaround for bug 1024.
8930 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
8934 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
8935 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
8936 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
8939 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
8941 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
8942 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
8943 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
8944 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
8945 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8948 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
8949 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
8950 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
8951 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
8952 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
8953 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
8954 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
8955 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
8956 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
8957 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
8960 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
8961 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
8962 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
8963 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
8964 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
8965 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
8966 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
8967 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
8970 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
8971 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
8972 a bunch of minor bugs.
8975 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
8976 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
8977 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8979 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
8980 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
8981 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
8982 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
8984 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
8988 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
8989 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
8990 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
8992 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8993 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
8995 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
8996 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
8998 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
8999 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
9000 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
9001 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
9002 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
9003 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
9004 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
9005 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9007 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9008 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
9009 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
9011 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
9012 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
9013 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
9014 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
9015 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
9019 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
9020 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9021 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
9024 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9025 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
9026 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
9027 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
9029 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9030 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
9031 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
9032 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9033 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
9034 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
9035 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
9036 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
9037 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
9038 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
9039 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
9040 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9041 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
9042 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
9043 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
9044 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
9045 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
9047 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
9048 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
9049 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
9050 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9053 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
9054 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9057 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
9058 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
9059 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
9060 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
9061 addresses to fall out of the directory.
9064 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
9065 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
9066 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
9067 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
9069 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
9070 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
9071 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
9072 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
9073 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
9074 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
9075 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
9076 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
9077 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
9078 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
9079 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
9080 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
9081 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
9083 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
9084 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
9087 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
9088 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
9089 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
9090 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
9091 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
9092 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
9094 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
9095 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
9096 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
9097 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
9098 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
9100 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
9103 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
9104 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
9106 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
9107 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
9108 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9109 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9110 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
9111 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
9113 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
9114 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9115 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
9116 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
9117 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
9118 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9119 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
9120 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
9121 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
9122 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
9123 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
9124 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
9128 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
9129 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
9130 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
9133 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
9134 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
9135 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9137 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
9138 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
9139 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
9140 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
9141 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
9142 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
9143 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
9144 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
9145 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
9146 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
9147 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
9148 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9149 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
9150 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
9151 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
9152 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
9153 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
9154 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
9155 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
9156 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
9157 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
9158 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
9159 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
9160 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
9161 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
9162 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
9164 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
9165 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
9166 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
9167 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
9168 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
9169 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
9170 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
9171 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
9172 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
9173 of 0. Suggested by lark.
9175 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9176 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
9177 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
9178 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
9179 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
9182 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
9184 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
9185 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
9186 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
9187 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
9190 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
9191 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
9192 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
9193 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9194 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
9196 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
9197 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
9198 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
9199 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
9202 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9203 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9204 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9205 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9206 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9207 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
9208 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9209 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9212 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
9213 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9214 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9215 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9218 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
9219 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
9220 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
9221 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9222 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
9223 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
9226 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9227 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9228 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9229 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9230 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9231 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9234 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
9235 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
9236 reported by Matt Edman.
9237 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
9239 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
9240 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
9241 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
9242 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
9244 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
9245 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9246 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
9247 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9248 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9249 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9250 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
9251 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
9252 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
9253 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
9254 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
9255 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
9256 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
9257 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9258 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
9259 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9260 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
9261 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
9262 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9265 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
9266 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9267 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
9268 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
9271 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
9272 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
9273 the letter of C99's alias rules.
9276 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
9277 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
9278 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
9279 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
9281 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
9282 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
9283 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
9286 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9287 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9290 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
9291 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
9292 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
9293 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
9294 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
9296 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
9297 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
9298 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
9299 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
9300 identify a connection.
9301 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9302 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9303 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9304 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9305 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9306 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9307 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9308 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9309 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9310 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9312 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9313 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
9314 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
9315 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
9316 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
9317 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
9318 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9321 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
9322 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
9324 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
9325 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
9326 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
9327 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
9328 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
9329 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
9330 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9331 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
9333 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
9334 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
9335 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
9336 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
9337 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
9338 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
9339 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
9340 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
9341 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
9342 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
9343 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
9344 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
9345 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
9346 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
9347 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9348 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
9349 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
9350 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9351 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
9352 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
9353 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
9354 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
9355 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
9356 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
9357 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
9358 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
9359 840. Patch from rovv.
9360 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
9361 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
9362 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
9364 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
9365 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
9366 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
9367 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9368 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9369 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9370 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9372 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9373 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
9374 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
9377 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
9378 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
9380 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
9381 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
9382 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
9383 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
9384 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
9385 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
9386 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
9387 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
9388 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
9390 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
9392 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9393 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
9397 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
9398 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
9399 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
9400 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
9401 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
9402 have had some time to upgrade.)
9405 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9406 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9409 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
9410 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
9411 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
9412 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
9413 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9416 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
9417 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
9419 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
9420 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9421 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
9422 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
9423 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
9424 entirely. Patch from coderman.
9427 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
9428 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9429 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
9430 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
9431 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
9432 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9433 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
9437 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
9438 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
9439 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
9440 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
9441 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
9442 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
9443 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
9446 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9447 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
9448 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
9449 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
9450 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
9452 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9453 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9454 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9455 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9456 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9457 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9458 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9459 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9460 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9461 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9465 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
9466 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
9467 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
9469 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
9470 without support for deprecated functions.
9471 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
9474 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
9475 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
9476 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
9477 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9478 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9479 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9480 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
9481 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
9482 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
9483 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
9484 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
9485 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
9486 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
9487 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
9488 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
9489 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
9490 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9491 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9492 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9493 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9494 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
9495 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
9498 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
9499 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
9500 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
9501 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
9502 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
9504 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
9505 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
9506 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
9507 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
9508 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
9510 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
9511 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
9512 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
9514 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
9515 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
9518 o Deprecated and removed features:
9519 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
9520 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
9521 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
9524 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9525 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
9526 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
9527 with log.h on Android.
9528 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
9529 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
9532 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
9533 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
9535 o New directory authorities:
9536 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
9540 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
9541 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
9542 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
9543 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
9544 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
9545 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9548 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
9549 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
9550 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
9551 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
9552 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
9553 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
9554 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
9555 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
9557 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
9558 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
9559 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
9560 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
9563 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
9564 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
9566 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
9567 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
9568 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
9569 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
9570 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
9571 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
9572 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
9573 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
9574 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
9575 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
9576 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
9577 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
9578 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
9579 Implements proposal 148.
9580 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
9581 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
9582 system to do it for us.
9583 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
9584 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
9585 this fix will be slightly helpful.
9586 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
9587 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
9588 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
9589 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
9590 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
9591 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
9592 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
9593 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
9594 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
9597 o Minor features (controller):
9598 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
9599 been fetched and validated.
9600 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
9601 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
9602 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
9603 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
9604 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
9605 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
9608 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
9609 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9610 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
9611 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
9612 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
9614 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
9615 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
9616 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9617 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
9618 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
9619 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9620 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
9621 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
9622 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
9624 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9625 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
9626 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
9627 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
9628 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
9629 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
9630 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
9631 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
9633 o Deprecated and removed features:
9634 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
9636 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
9637 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
9638 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
9640 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9641 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
9642 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
9644 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
9645 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
9646 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
9647 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
9648 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
9649 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
9652 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
9653 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
9654 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
9655 fixes a variety of other issues.
9658 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
9659 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
9660 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
9661 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
9664 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
9665 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
9666 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
9667 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
9670 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
9671 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9672 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
9676 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
9678 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
9679 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
9680 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
9681 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
9682 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
9683 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
9684 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
9686 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
9687 rest, and don't automatically fail.
9688 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
9689 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9690 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
9691 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
9693 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
9694 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
9695 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
9696 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
9697 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
9698 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
9699 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
9700 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
9701 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
9702 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
9704 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
9708 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
9709 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
9710 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
9712 o Minor features (controller):
9713 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
9717 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
9718 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
9719 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
9720 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
9721 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
9722 variety of other issues.
9725 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
9726 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
9727 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
9728 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
9729 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
9730 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
9731 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
9732 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
9733 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
9734 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
9735 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
9736 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
9739 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
9740 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9742 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9743 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
9744 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
9745 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
9746 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
9747 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
9748 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9749 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
9750 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
9751 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
9752 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
9753 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
9754 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
9755 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
9756 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
9760 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
9761 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
9762 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
9763 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
9764 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
9765 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
9766 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
9767 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
9768 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
9769 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
9770 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
9771 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
9772 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
9773 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
9774 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
9775 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
9776 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
9777 list. It has been gone for many months.
9778 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
9779 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
9780 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
9783 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9784 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
9785 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
9788 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
9789 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
9790 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
9791 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
9792 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
9793 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
9794 variety of other issues.
9797 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
9798 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
9799 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
9800 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
9801 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
9802 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
9803 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
9804 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
9805 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
9806 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
9807 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
9808 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
9809 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
9810 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
9813 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
9814 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
9815 Suggested by Lucky Green.
9816 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
9817 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
9818 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
9819 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
9820 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
9821 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
9823 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
9824 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
9826 o Hidden service performance improvements:
9827 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
9828 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
9829 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
9830 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
9831 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
9832 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
9833 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
9834 faster after restart.
9837 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
9838 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
9839 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
9840 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
9841 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
9842 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
9843 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
9844 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
9845 840. Patch from rovv.
9846 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
9847 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
9848 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
9849 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
9850 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
9851 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
9852 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
9853 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
9854 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
9856 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
9857 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
9858 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
9859 have already been marked for close.
9860 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
9861 introduction points.
9862 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
9863 memory performance during directory parsing.
9864 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
9865 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
9866 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
9867 because of a pending download.
9870 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
9871 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
9872 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
9873 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9876 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
9877 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
9878 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
9879 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
9880 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
9881 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
9882 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
9883 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
9884 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
9885 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
9886 lookups more reliable.
9887 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
9888 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
9889 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
9890 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
9891 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
9892 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
9893 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
9896 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
9897 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
9898 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9899 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
9900 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
9901 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
9902 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
9903 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
9904 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
9905 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
9906 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
9908 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
9909 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
9910 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
9911 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
9912 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
9913 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9914 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
9915 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
9916 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9919 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
9920 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
9921 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
9922 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
9923 locked down these days.
9924 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
9925 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
9926 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
9927 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
9928 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
9930 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
9931 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
9932 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
9933 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
9934 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
9935 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
9936 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
9937 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
9938 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
9939 people find host:port too confusing.
9940 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
9941 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
9942 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
9945 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9947 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
9948 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
9949 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
9950 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
9951 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
9953 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
9954 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
9955 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
9956 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
9957 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
9958 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
9959 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
9960 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
9961 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
9962 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
9963 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
9964 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
9966 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
9967 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
9968 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
9969 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
9970 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
9971 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
9972 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9973 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
9974 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
9976 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
9977 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
9978 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
9979 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
9980 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
9981 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9982 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
9983 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
9984 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
9985 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
9986 bug 820, reported by seeess.
9987 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
9988 list. It has been gone for many months.
9990 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9991 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
9992 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
9993 actual mistakes we're making here.
9994 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
9995 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
9996 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
9997 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
10000 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
10001 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
10002 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
10003 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10006 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10007 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10008 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10009 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10010 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10011 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10013 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10014 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10015 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10016 pointed out by rovv.
10019 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10020 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10021 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10022 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10023 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
10024 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
10025 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10026 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10027 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10028 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10029 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10030 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
10031 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
10032 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10033 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10034 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10035 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10036 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10037 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
10038 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
10039 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10042 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
10043 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
10044 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
10045 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
10046 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
10047 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
10048 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10051 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
10053 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
10054 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
10055 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
10056 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
10057 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
10058 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
10059 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
10061 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
10062 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
10063 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
10064 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
10065 known descriptor before building circuits.
10067 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
10068 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
10069 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
10070 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
10071 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
10072 identify a connection.
10073 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
10074 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
10075 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
10077 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
10078 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
10079 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
10080 pointed out by rovv.
10083 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
10084 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10085 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
10086 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
10087 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
10088 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10089 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
10090 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
10091 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
10092 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
10093 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
10094 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
10095 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
10096 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
10097 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10100 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
10101 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
10102 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
10103 answer sections match.
10104 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
10105 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
10108 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
10109 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10112 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
10113 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
10114 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
10116 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
10117 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
10118 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
10121 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
10122 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
10123 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
10124 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
10127 o Removed features:
10128 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
10129 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
10132 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
10133 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
10134 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
10135 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
10136 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
10137 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
10139 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
10140 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
10141 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
10144 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
10145 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
10146 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
10147 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
10148 be sent using an "early" cell.
10151 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
10152 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
10153 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
10154 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
10155 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
10156 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
10157 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
10160 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
10161 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
10162 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
10163 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
10164 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
10165 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
10166 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
10167 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
10168 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
10169 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
10170 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
10171 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
10172 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
10173 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
10174 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
10175 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
10178 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
10179 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
10180 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
10181 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10182 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10183 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10184 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
10185 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
10186 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
10188 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
10189 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
10190 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
10191 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
10192 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
10195 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10196 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
10197 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
10198 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
10200 o Removed features:
10201 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
10202 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
10206 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
10208 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
10209 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
10210 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
10213 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
10214 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
10215 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10218 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
10219 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
10220 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10221 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10222 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10223 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
10224 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
10225 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
10226 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10227 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10228 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
10229 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
10230 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10231 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
10232 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
10233 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
10234 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
10235 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
10236 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
10237 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
10238 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
10239 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
10240 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
10243 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
10244 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
10246 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
10247 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
10248 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
10249 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
10250 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
10251 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
10252 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
10254 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
10255 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
10256 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
10257 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
10258 found by Geoff Goodell.
10261 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
10262 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
10263 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
10264 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
10265 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
10266 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
10269 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
10270 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
10271 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
10274 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10275 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
10276 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
10277 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
10278 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10279 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
10280 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
10281 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
10282 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10283 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
10284 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
10285 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
10286 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
10287 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
10290 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
10291 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
10292 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
10294 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
10295 fingerprints with or without space.
10296 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
10297 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
10298 partway through and wants to catch up.
10299 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
10300 state to start out in.
10303 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
10304 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
10305 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10306 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
10307 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
10310 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
10311 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
10312 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
10313 some of the connection attempts fail.
10314 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
10315 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
10316 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
10317 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
10318 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
10319 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
10321 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
10322 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
10323 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
10326 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
10327 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
10328 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
10329 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
10330 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
10331 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
10332 and adds a variety of smaller features.
10335 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
10336 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
10337 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
10338 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
10340 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
10341 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
10342 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
10343 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
10345 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
10346 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
10347 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
10348 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
10349 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
10350 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
10351 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
10354 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
10355 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
10356 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
10357 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
10358 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
10360 o Memory fixes and improvements:
10361 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
10362 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
10363 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
10364 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
10365 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
10366 on a typical directory cache.
10367 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
10368 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
10369 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
10370 and may reduce fragmentation.
10371 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
10372 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
10373 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
10375 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
10376 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
10377 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
10379 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
10380 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
10384 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
10385 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
10386 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
10387 done that for a long time.
10388 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
10389 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
10390 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
10391 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
10394 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
10395 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
10396 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
10397 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
10398 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
10399 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
10401 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
10402 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
10403 output to messages of warning and error severity.
10404 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
10405 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
10406 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
10407 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
10408 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
10409 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
10410 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
10411 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
10412 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
10413 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
10414 directory requests we should expect to see.
10415 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
10417 - Lots of new unit tests.
10418 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
10419 two parallel lists in lockstep.
10422 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
10423 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
10424 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10427 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
10428 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
10429 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
10430 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
10431 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
10432 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
10433 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
10436 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
10437 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
10438 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
10442 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
10443 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
10444 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
10447 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
10448 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
10449 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
10451 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
10452 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
10454 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
10455 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
10456 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
10457 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
10458 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10459 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
10460 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
10462 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
10463 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
10464 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
10465 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
10466 - Fix compile on Windows.
10469 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
10470 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
10471 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
10472 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
10473 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
10474 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
10475 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
10478 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
10479 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
10482 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
10483 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
10484 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
10485 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
10487 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
10488 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
10489 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
10492 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
10493 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
10494 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
10495 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
10499 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
10500 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
10501 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
10502 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
10504 o Major security fixes:
10505 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
10506 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
10507 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
10508 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
10509 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
10512 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
10513 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10516 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
10517 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
10520 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
10521 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
10524 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
10525 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
10526 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
10529 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
10530 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10533 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
10534 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
10535 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
10536 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
10537 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
10539 o New directory authorities:
10540 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
10541 it has been down for months.
10542 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
10546 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
10547 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
10549 o Minor features (security):
10550 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
10551 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
10552 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
10555 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
10556 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
10557 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
10558 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
10559 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
10560 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
10561 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
10562 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
10563 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10565 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
10566 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
10567 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10568 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
10569 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10570 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
10571 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10572 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
10573 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
10575 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10576 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
10577 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
10578 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
10579 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
10580 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
10581 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
10582 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
10583 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
10584 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
10585 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10586 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
10587 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
10588 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
10589 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
10590 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
10591 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
10592 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
10593 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
10596 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
10597 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
10598 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
10599 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
10602 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
10603 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
10604 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
10605 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
10608 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
10609 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
10610 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
10611 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
10612 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
10615 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
10616 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
10617 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
10618 certain censored countries by default again.
10621 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
10622 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10623 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
10624 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
10625 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10626 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
10627 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
10628 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
10630 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
10631 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
10632 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
10633 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
10634 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
10635 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
10636 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
10637 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
10638 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
10639 a directory. Fix from lodger.
10641 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10642 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
10643 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
10644 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
10645 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
10646 RelayBandwidth* values.
10647 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
10648 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
10649 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
10650 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
10651 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
10652 get_interface_address6().
10653 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
10654 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
10655 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
10657 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
10658 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
10659 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
10660 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10661 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
10662 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
10663 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10664 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
10665 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
10666 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10669 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
10670 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
10671 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
10674 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
10675 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
10676 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
10677 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
10678 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
10681 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
10682 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
10683 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
10684 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
10685 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
10686 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
10687 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
10688 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
10689 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
10692 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
10693 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
10694 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
10695 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10698 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
10699 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
10700 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
10701 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
10702 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
10703 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
10704 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
10707 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
10708 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
10709 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
10710 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
10711 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
10712 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
10713 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
10715 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
10716 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
10717 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
10718 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
10719 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
10722 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
10723 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
10724 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10725 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
10726 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
10727 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
10728 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10729 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
10730 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
10731 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
10732 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
10733 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
10734 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
10735 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
10736 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
10737 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10738 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
10739 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10740 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10741 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
10742 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
10743 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
10744 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
10745 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
10746 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
10747 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
10749 o Minor features (performance):
10750 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
10752 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
10753 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
10754 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
10755 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
10756 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
10757 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
10758 non-system include paths.
10759 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
10760 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
10763 o Minor features (other):
10764 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
10766 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
10767 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
10768 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
10771 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
10772 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
10773 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
10774 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
10776 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
10777 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
10778 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
10779 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
10780 Should fix bug 537.
10781 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
10782 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
10783 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10784 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
10785 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10787 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10788 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
10789 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
10790 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
10791 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
10792 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
10793 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
10794 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
10795 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
10796 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
10797 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
10798 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
10799 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
10800 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
10801 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
10802 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10803 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
10804 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
10805 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
10806 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
10807 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
10808 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
10809 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
10810 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
10811 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
10814 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10815 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
10816 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
10820 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
10821 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
10822 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
10823 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
10824 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
10827 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
10828 Tor's x509 certificates.
10831 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
10832 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
10833 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10834 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
10835 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
10836 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10838 o Minor features (security):
10839 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
10840 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
10842 o Minor features (directory authority):
10843 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
10844 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
10845 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
10846 bandwidthburst values.
10848 o Minor features (controller):
10849 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
10850 processes from running us out of memory.
10852 o Minor features (misc):
10853 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
10854 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
10855 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
10856 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
10858 o Deprecated features (controller):
10859 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
10860 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
10861 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
10864 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
10865 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
10867 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
10868 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
10869 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10870 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
10871 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
10872 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10873 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
10874 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
10876 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
10877 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10878 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
10879 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10880 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
10881 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
10882 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
10883 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
10885 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
10886 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
10887 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
10888 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
10889 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
10890 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
10891 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10892 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
10893 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10894 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
10895 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
10896 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10898 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10899 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
10901 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
10902 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
10903 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
10904 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
10905 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
10906 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
10909 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
10910 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
10911 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
10912 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
10913 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
10915 o New directory authorities:
10916 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
10920 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
10921 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
10922 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
10923 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
10924 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
10925 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
10926 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
10927 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
10931 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
10932 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
10933 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
10934 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
10935 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
10936 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
10937 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
10938 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
10939 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
10940 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
10943 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
10944 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
10945 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
10946 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
10950 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
10951 the request isn't encrypted.
10952 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
10953 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
10954 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
10955 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
10956 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
10959 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
10960 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
10963 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
10966 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
10967 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
10968 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
10970 o New directory authorities:
10971 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
10974 o Major performance improvements:
10975 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
10976 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
10977 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
10978 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
10979 memory fragmentation.
10982 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
10983 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
10984 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
10985 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
10986 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
10987 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
10988 bodies when they receive them.
10989 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
10990 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
10991 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
10993 o Minor performance improvements:
10994 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
10995 of them were actually distinct.
10996 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
10997 interested in a given message.
11000 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
11001 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
11002 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
11003 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
11004 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
11005 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
11006 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
11007 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
11008 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
11009 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
11010 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
11012 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
11013 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
11014 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
11015 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
11016 this country" and "1 person from this country".
11017 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11018 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
11019 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11020 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
11021 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
11023 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11024 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
11025 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
11027 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
11028 but client versions are not.
11029 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11030 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11032 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
11033 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
11034 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
11035 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
11036 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
11038 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
11039 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
11040 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
11043 o Minor features (controller):
11044 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
11045 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
11046 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
11047 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
11049 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11050 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
11051 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
11052 running a test network on a single host.
11053 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
11054 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
11056 o Minor features (bridges):
11057 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
11058 unencrypted connections.
11060 o Minor features (other):
11061 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
11062 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
11063 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
11064 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
11067 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
11068 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
11069 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
11070 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11073 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11074 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11075 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11076 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11077 on network address.
11080 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
11081 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
11082 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11083 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
11084 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11085 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
11086 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11087 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11088 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
11089 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
11090 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
11091 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
11094 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11095 rebuild our server descriptor.
11096 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11097 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
11098 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
11099 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11100 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11101 nonstandard integer types.
11102 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
11103 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
11104 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
11105 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
11106 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
11108 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
11109 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
11110 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
11111 when they receive them.
11112 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
11113 This includes some 64-bit systems.
11114 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
11115 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
11116 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
11117 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
11118 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
11119 router_get_by_hexdigest().
11120 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
11121 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
11125 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
11126 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
11127 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11130 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
11131 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
11132 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
11133 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
11134 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
11135 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
11136 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
11137 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11140 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
11141 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
11142 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
11143 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
11145 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
11146 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
11149 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
11150 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
11153 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
11155 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
11156 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
11158 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
11159 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
11160 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
11161 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11162 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
11163 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
11164 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
11165 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11166 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
11167 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
11171 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
11172 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
11173 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
11176 - Make the unit tests build again.
11177 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
11178 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
11179 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
11180 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
11181 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
11182 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11183 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
11184 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
11185 the next one as a duplicate.
11188 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
11189 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
11190 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
11191 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
11194 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
11195 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
11196 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
11199 o New directory authorities:
11200 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
11204 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
11205 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
11206 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
11207 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
11208 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
11209 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
11210 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
11212 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
11213 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
11215 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
11216 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
11217 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
11218 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
11219 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
11220 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
11222 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
11223 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
11224 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11225 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
11226 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
11227 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11230 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
11231 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
11232 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
11233 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
11234 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
11235 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
11236 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
11237 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
11238 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
11239 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
11240 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
11241 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
11242 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
11243 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
11244 where Tor is blocked.
11245 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
11246 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
11247 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
11248 to a file periodically.
11249 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
11250 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
11251 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
11255 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
11256 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
11257 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
11258 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
11259 in the relevant networkstatus document.
11260 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
11261 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
11262 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11263 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
11264 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
11265 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
11266 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
11267 by Karsten Loesing.
11268 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
11269 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
11270 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
11271 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
11272 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
11273 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11274 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
11275 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
11276 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
11277 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11278 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
11279 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
11280 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
11281 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11282 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
11283 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
11284 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
11285 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
11286 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
11287 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11288 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11289 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
11290 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11291 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
11292 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
11293 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11294 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
11295 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11298 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
11299 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
11300 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
11301 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
11302 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
11303 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
11304 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
11305 even if your DirPort isn't on.
11306 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
11307 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
11308 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
11310 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
11311 multiple controller passwords.
11312 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
11313 router based on the router's purpose.
11314 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
11315 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
11316 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
11317 the approved-routers file.
11320 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
11321 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
11322 well as a few minor bugs.
11325 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
11326 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
11327 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
11329 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
11330 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
11331 rebuild our server descriptor.
11333 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11334 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
11335 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
11336 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
11337 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
11338 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
11339 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
11340 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
11341 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
11342 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
11344 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
11345 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
11346 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
11347 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
11348 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
11349 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
11350 then be flexible about families.
11353 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
11354 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
11355 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
11359 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
11360 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
11361 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
11362 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
11363 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
11366 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
11367 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
11368 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
11369 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
11370 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11373 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
11374 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
11376 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
11377 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
11378 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
11379 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
11380 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
11381 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
11382 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11384 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
11385 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
11386 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
11387 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
11390 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
11391 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
11394 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
11395 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
11396 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11399 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
11400 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
11401 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
11402 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
11403 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
11404 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
11405 addresses many more minor issues.
11407 o New directory authorities:
11408 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
11411 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
11412 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
11413 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
11414 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
11416 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
11417 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
11418 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
11419 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
11420 and are reaching it.
11421 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
11422 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
11423 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
11424 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
11425 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
11426 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
11429 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
11430 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
11432 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
11433 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
11434 no longer work for clients.
11435 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
11436 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
11438 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
11439 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
11440 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
11441 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
11442 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
11443 enough directory information to build a circuit.
11444 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
11445 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
11446 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
11447 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
11448 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
11449 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
11451 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
11452 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
11453 requests for all of them.
11454 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
11456 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
11457 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
11458 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
11460 o New requirements:
11461 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
11462 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
11466 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
11467 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
11468 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
11469 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
11470 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
11471 networkstatuses that we already have.
11472 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
11473 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
11474 we start knowing some directory caches.
11475 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
11476 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
11477 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
11478 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
11479 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
11480 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
11481 Good in combination with --hash-password.
11482 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
11483 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
11485 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
11486 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
11487 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
11489 o Minor features (bridges):
11490 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
11491 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
11492 back to trying the bridge directly.
11493 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
11494 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
11496 o Minor features (controller):
11497 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
11498 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
11499 report the value as a "minimum skew."
11502 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
11503 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
11507 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
11508 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
11509 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
11510 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
11511 reported by tup and ioerror.
11512 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
11513 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
11515 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11516 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
11518 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
11519 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
11520 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
11522 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
11523 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11524 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
11525 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11526 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
11527 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11528 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
11530 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
11531 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
11532 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11534 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
11535 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
11536 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
11537 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
11538 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
11541 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
11542 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
11543 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
11544 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
11545 lists for a few hours each day.
11547 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11548 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
11549 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
11550 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
11551 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
11552 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
11553 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
11554 rend_process_relay_cell().
11556 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11557 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
11558 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
11559 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
11560 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
11561 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
11562 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
11563 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
11565 o Major bugfixes (other):
11566 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
11567 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
11568 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
11569 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
11570 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
11571 circuit cannibalization).
11572 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
11573 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
11574 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
11575 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
11576 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
11577 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
11580 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
11581 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
11583 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
11584 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
11585 absent. Resolves bug 467.
11586 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
11587 a way to trigger this remotely.)
11588 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
11589 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
11590 were reporting the dir port.)
11591 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
11592 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
11593 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
11594 the future. Fixes bug 434.
11595 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
11597 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
11598 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
11599 the onion key from getting rotated.
11600 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
11601 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
11602 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
11603 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
11604 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
11605 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
11606 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11607 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
11608 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
11611 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
11612 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
11613 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
11614 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
11615 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
11616 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
11618 o Major features (directory system):
11619 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
11620 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
11621 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
11622 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
11623 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
11624 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
11625 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
11626 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
11627 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
11628 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
11629 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
11630 Partially implements proposal 122.
11631 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
11632 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
11635 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
11636 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
11637 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
11638 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
11640 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
11641 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
11642 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
11643 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
11644 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
11645 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11646 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
11647 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
11648 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11650 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
11651 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
11653 - Allow certificates to include an address.
11654 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
11655 and download operations.
11656 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
11657 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
11658 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
11659 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
11660 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
11661 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
11663 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
11664 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
11667 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
11668 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
11669 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
11670 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
11672 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
11673 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
11674 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
11676 o Minor features (performance):
11677 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
11678 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
11679 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
11680 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
11681 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
11682 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
11683 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
11686 o Minor features (compilation):
11687 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
11688 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
11690 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
11691 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
11692 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
11693 stick around indefinitely.
11694 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
11696 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
11697 v3 directory authority.
11698 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
11699 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
11701 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
11702 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
11703 "moria on moria:9031."
11704 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
11705 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
11706 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
11707 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
11708 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
11709 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
11710 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
11711 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
11713 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
11714 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
11715 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
11716 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
11717 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
11718 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
11719 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
11720 downloads than for other types.
11722 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
11723 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
11725 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
11726 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
11727 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11729 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11730 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
11731 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11732 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
11733 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
11734 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
11735 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
11736 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
11738 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11739 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
11740 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
11741 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
11742 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11743 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
11744 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
11745 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11746 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
11747 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
11748 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
11750 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
11751 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
11754 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11755 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
11756 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
11757 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
11758 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
11759 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
11760 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
11761 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
11762 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
11763 so that they all take the same named flags.
11766 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
11767 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
11768 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
11771 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
11772 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
11773 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
11774 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
11775 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
11776 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
11778 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
11779 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
11780 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
11781 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
11782 annotations along with descriptors.
11783 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
11784 source, and its purpose.
11785 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
11787 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
11788 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
11789 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
11790 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
11793 o Major features (directory authorities):
11794 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
11796 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
11797 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
11798 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
11799 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
11800 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
11801 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
11803 o Major features (v3 directory system):
11804 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
11805 and download the descriptors listed in them.
11806 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
11807 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
11808 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
11810 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11811 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
11812 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
11813 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
11816 o Major bugfixes (performance):
11817 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
11818 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
11819 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
11820 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
11822 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
11823 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
11824 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
11825 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
11826 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
11827 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
11829 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
11830 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
11832 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
11833 certificate is requested.
11834 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
11835 certificate requests.
11837 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
11838 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
11839 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
11840 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
11843 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11844 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
11845 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
11846 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11848 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
11849 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
11851 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
11852 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
11853 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11854 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
11855 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
11856 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
11857 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
11858 downloads more sensible.
11859 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
11860 another when serving certificates.
11862 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11863 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
11864 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
11865 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
11867 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
11868 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11869 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
11871 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
11872 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11874 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11875 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
11876 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
11877 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
11878 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11880 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
11881 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
11882 WARN-severity events.
11883 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
11884 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
11885 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
11887 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
11888 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
11889 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
11891 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
11892 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
11893 circuit cannibalization).
11895 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11896 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
11897 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
11898 new module, networkstatus.c.
11899 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
11900 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
11901 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
11902 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
11903 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
11904 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
11905 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
11906 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
11907 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
11909 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
11911 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
11912 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11915 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
11916 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
11917 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
11918 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
11920 o New directory authorities:
11921 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
11922 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
11924 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11925 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
11926 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11928 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
11929 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
11930 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
11931 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
11932 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11933 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
11934 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
11935 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
11936 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
11937 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
11938 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11940 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11941 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
11942 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
11943 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
11944 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
11945 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
11946 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
11947 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
11948 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
11950 o Minor features (security):
11951 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
11952 address maps to an internal address space.
11953 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
11954 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
11956 o Minor features (guard nodes):
11957 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
11958 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
11959 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
11960 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
11962 o Minor features (speed):
11963 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
11964 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
11965 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
11966 on big-endian hosts.)
11968 o Minor features (controller):
11969 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
11970 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
11971 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
11972 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
11975 o Removed features:
11976 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
11977 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
11978 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
11979 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
11980 implementation of proposal 104.
11981 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
11982 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
11983 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
11984 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
11985 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
11986 patch from Karsten Loesing.
11987 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
11988 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
11991 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
11992 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
11993 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11994 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
11995 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
11996 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
11997 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11998 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
11999 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
12000 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12001 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
12002 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
12003 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
12004 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12005 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
12006 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
12007 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
12008 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12009 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
12010 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
12012 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12013 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
12014 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
12016 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
12017 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
12018 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
12019 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
12022 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
12023 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
12024 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
12025 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12026 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
12029 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
12030 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
12033 o Major bugfixes (security):
12034 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
12035 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
12036 become more of a headache than it's worth.
12038 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12039 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12040 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12042 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12043 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12044 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12045 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12046 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12047 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12049 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12050 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12051 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12052 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12053 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
12055 o Minor features (controller):
12056 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12057 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12058 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12059 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12061 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12062 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
12063 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
12064 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12065 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
12066 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
12067 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
12068 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12070 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12071 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12072 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12073 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
12074 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12075 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12076 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12077 if we ran off the end of the list.
12078 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12079 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12080 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12081 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12082 every time we change any piece of our config.
12083 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12084 encourage people using them to stop.
12085 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
12087 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12088 servers to choose a circuit.
12089 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12090 unparseable piece of it.
12093 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
12094 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
12095 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
12096 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
12099 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
12100 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
12101 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
12102 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
12103 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
12105 o New directory authorities:
12106 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
12109 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
12110 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
12111 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
12112 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
12114 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
12115 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
12116 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
12118 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
12119 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
12120 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
12121 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
12122 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
12123 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
12125 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
12126 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
12127 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12130 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
12131 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
12132 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
12133 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
12137 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
12138 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
12139 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
12140 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
12142 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
12143 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
12145 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
12146 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
12147 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
12148 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
12149 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
12150 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
12151 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12152 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
12153 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12154 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
12157 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
12158 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
12159 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
12160 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
12161 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
12162 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
12164 o Removed features:
12165 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
12166 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
12167 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
12168 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
12171 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
12172 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
12173 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
12174 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
12175 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
12178 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
12179 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
12180 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
12181 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
12182 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
12183 reported by lodger.
12185 o Minor features (directory servers):
12186 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
12187 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
12189 o Minor features (directory voting):
12190 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
12193 o Minor features (security):
12194 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
12195 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
12196 encourage people using them to stop.
12198 o Minor features (controller):
12199 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
12200 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
12201 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
12202 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
12203 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
12204 cookie authentication file, and config option
12205 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
12207 o Minor features (unit testing):
12208 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
12209 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
12210 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
12211 logging for the unit tests.
12213 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12214 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
12215 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
12216 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
12217 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
12218 every time we change any piece of our config.
12219 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
12220 the future. Fixes bug 434.
12221 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
12223 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
12224 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
12225 the onion key from getting rotated.
12226 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
12227 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
12228 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
12231 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12232 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
12233 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
12235 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
12236 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
12237 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
12238 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
12241 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
12242 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
12243 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
12244 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
12245 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
12246 TorK, etc. Or worse.
12248 o Major security fixes:
12249 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12250 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12253 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
12254 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
12255 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
12256 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
12258 o Major security fixes:
12259 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
12260 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
12262 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12263 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
12266 o Minor features (performance):
12267 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
12268 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
12269 performance-intensive.
12270 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
12271 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
12272 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
12273 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
12274 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
12275 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
12279 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
12280 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
12281 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
12282 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
12286 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
12287 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
12288 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
12289 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
12290 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
12292 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
12293 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
12294 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
12295 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
12297 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
12298 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
12299 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
12300 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
12301 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
12303 o Major features (experimental):
12304 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
12305 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
12306 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
12307 handling before it's ready for use.
12310 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
12311 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
12312 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
12313 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12314 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
12315 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
12317 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
12318 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
12319 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
12320 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
12321 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
12323 o Major bugfixes (directory):
12324 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
12325 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12327 o Minor features (controller):
12328 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
12329 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12330 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
12331 from Robert Hogan.)
12332 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
12333 from Robert Hogan.)
12334 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
12335 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
12337 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
12338 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
12339 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
12340 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
12341 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12342 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
12343 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
12346 o Minor features (misc):
12347 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
12349 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
12350 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
12351 the authority identity key.
12352 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
12354 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
12355 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
12356 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
12359 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
12360 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
12361 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
12362 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
12363 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
12364 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
12365 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
12366 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
12368 o Performance improvements:
12369 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
12371 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
12372 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
12375 o Deprecated and removed features:
12376 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
12377 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
12378 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
12379 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
12381 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12382 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
12383 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12384 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
12385 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
12386 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12387 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
12388 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
12389 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
12392 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
12393 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
12394 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
12395 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
12396 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
12398 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
12399 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
12402 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12403 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
12404 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
12405 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
12406 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
12407 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
12408 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
12409 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
12410 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
12413 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
12414 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
12415 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
12416 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
12418 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12419 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
12421 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12422 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
12423 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
12424 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
12425 routerlist while inserting a new router.
12426 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
12427 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
12429 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
12430 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
12431 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
12433 o Major bugfixes (security):
12434 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
12436 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
12437 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
12438 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
12439 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
12440 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
12441 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
12442 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
12443 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
12444 guard list unless we need to.
12446 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
12447 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
12448 don't get overused as guards.
12450 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12451 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
12452 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
12453 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
12454 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
12456 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12457 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
12458 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
12461 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12462 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
12463 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
12464 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
12465 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
12466 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
12467 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
12468 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
12471 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
12472 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
12473 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
12474 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
12476 o Minor features (directory):
12477 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
12478 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
12479 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
12480 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
12482 o Minor build issues:
12483 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
12484 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
12485 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
12486 in the tarball, not as "x".
12489 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
12490 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
12491 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
12492 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
12493 forward on a lot of fronts.
12495 o Major features, server usability:
12496 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
12497 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
12498 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
12499 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
12501 o Major features, client usability:
12502 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
12503 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
12504 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
12505 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
12506 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
12507 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
12508 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
12509 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
12511 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
12512 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
12513 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
12514 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
12515 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
12516 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
12518 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
12519 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
12520 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
12522 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
12523 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
12524 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
12525 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
12526 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
12528 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
12529 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
12530 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
12531 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
12533 o Major features, other:
12534 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
12535 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
12536 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
12537 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
12538 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
12541 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
12542 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
12543 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
12546 o Minor fixes (resource management):
12547 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
12548 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
12549 our allocated connection limit.
12550 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
12551 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
12552 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
12553 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
12554 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
12556 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
12557 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
12558 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
12560 o Minor features (build):
12561 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
12562 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
12563 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
12564 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
12566 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
12567 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
12568 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
12569 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
12570 Use this version consistently in log messages.
12572 o Minor features (logging):
12573 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
12574 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
12575 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
12576 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
12577 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
12580 o Minor features (directory system):
12581 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
12582 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
12583 not to serve V2 directory information.
12584 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
12585 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
12586 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
12588 o Minor features (controller):
12589 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
12590 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
12592 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
12593 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
12594 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
12595 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
12596 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
12597 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
12599 o Minor features (hidden services):
12600 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
12601 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
12602 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
12603 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
12605 o Minor features (other):
12607 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
12608 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
12609 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
12610 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
12611 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
12612 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
12613 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
12614 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
12615 longer a completely silly thing to do.
12616 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
12617 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
12618 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
12619 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
12621 o Removed features:
12622 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
12623 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
12624 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
12625 back an error and close the connection.
12626 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
12627 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
12630 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12631 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
12632 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
12633 makes the log messages nicer.
12634 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
12635 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
12636 partial results on small file reads.
12638 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12639 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
12640 more often than they are allowed to appear.
12641 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
12642 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
12644 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12645 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
12646 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
12647 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
12649 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12650 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
12651 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
12652 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
12653 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
12654 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
12655 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
12656 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
12657 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
12658 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
12659 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
12661 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
12662 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
12663 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
12665 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
12666 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
12667 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
12668 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
12670 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12671 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
12672 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
12674 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
12675 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
12678 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12679 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
12680 implicit in other procedure arguments.
12681 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
12682 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
12683 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
12684 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
12685 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
12686 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
12687 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
12688 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
12689 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
12692 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
12693 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
12694 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
12695 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
12697 o Directory authority changes:
12698 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
12699 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
12700 or use hidden services.
12702 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12703 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
12704 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
12705 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
12706 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
12707 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
12708 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
12709 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
12710 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
12713 o Major bugfixes (security):
12714 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
12715 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
12716 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
12718 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
12719 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
12720 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
12721 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
12722 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
12723 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
12724 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
12725 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
12726 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
12727 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
12730 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
12731 purpose=controller.
12732 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
12733 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
12735 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
12736 having a hard time downloading.
12737 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
12738 partial results on small file reads.
12739 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
12740 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
12741 the gaps in the store get very large.
12744 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
12745 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
12747 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
12748 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
12751 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
12752 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
12753 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
12754 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
12755 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
12756 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
12758 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
12759 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
12760 free speech on the Internet.
12763 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
12764 get one we don't recognize.
12765 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
12766 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
12769 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
12771 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
12772 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
12773 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
12774 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
12777 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
12778 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
12781 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
12782 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
12783 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
12784 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
12785 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
12786 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
12787 ask for GUARDS too.
12790 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
12791 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
12792 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
12793 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
12794 on Win98 and friends again.
12796 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12797 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
12798 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
12801 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
12802 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
12803 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
12804 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
12805 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
12806 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
12807 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
12808 and maybe also bug 397.)
12810 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12811 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
12812 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
12814 o Minor bugfixes (server):
12815 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
12818 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
12819 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
12820 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
12821 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
12822 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
12824 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12825 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
12826 load on authorities.
12828 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12829 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
12830 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
12831 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
12833 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
12835 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
12836 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
12837 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
12838 the last of bug 326.)
12839 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
12840 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
12844 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
12845 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
12846 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
12847 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
12848 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
12849 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
12850 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
12852 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
12853 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
12855 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12856 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
12857 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
12859 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
12860 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
12861 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
12863 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12864 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
12865 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
12866 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
12868 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
12869 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
12871 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
12872 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
12873 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
12876 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12877 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
12878 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
12879 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
12880 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
12881 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
12882 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
12883 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
12884 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
12885 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
12886 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
12887 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
12888 other than file-not-found.
12889 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
12890 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
12891 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
12892 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
12893 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
12894 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
12895 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
12896 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
12897 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
12898 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
12899 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
12900 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
12901 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
12902 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
12903 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
12905 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
12907 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
12908 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
12910 o Minor features (controller):
12911 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
12912 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
12913 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
12915 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
12916 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
12917 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
12918 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
12919 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
12920 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
12921 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
12922 connected or resolved cell.
12924 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12925 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
12926 some profiles, but not others.)
12927 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
12928 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
12929 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
12932 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
12934 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
12935 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
12936 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
12937 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
12938 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
12939 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
12940 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
12941 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
12942 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
12943 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
12944 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
12945 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
12946 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
12947 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
12948 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
12950 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
12953 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
12954 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
12955 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
12956 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
12957 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
12958 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
12959 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
12961 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
12962 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
12963 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
12964 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
12965 buckets go absurdly negative.
12966 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
12967 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
12970 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
12971 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
12972 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
12973 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
12974 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
12975 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
12976 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
12977 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
12980 o Major bugfixes (other):
12981 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
12982 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
12983 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
12984 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
12986 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
12988 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
12989 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
12991 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
12992 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
12993 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
12994 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
12995 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
12996 to wait for 0.2.0.)
12998 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
12999 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
13000 possible memory-stomping bugs.
13001 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
13002 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
13004 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
13005 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
13006 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
13007 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
13008 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
13009 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
13011 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13012 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
13013 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
13014 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
13016 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
13017 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
13018 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
13019 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
13020 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
13021 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
13022 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
13023 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
13024 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
13025 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
13026 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
13027 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
13028 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
13030 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
13031 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
13032 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
13033 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
13034 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
13035 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
13036 to the resulting address.
13039 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
13040 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
13041 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
13042 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
13045 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
13046 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
13048 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
13049 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
13050 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
13051 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
13052 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
13053 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
13054 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
13055 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
13056 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
13057 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
13058 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
13059 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
13060 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
13061 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
13062 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
13063 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
13064 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
13067 o Minor features (controller):
13068 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
13069 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
13070 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
13071 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
13072 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
13073 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
13074 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
13078 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
13080 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
13081 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
13082 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
13083 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
13084 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
13085 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
13088 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
13089 weren't planning to resolve.
13090 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
13091 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
13092 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
13093 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
13094 the controller from learning about current events.
13096 o Minor features (more controller status events):
13097 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
13098 learn when our address changes.
13099 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
13100 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
13101 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
13102 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
13104 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
13105 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
13106 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
13107 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
13108 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
13109 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
13110 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
13111 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
13112 are accepted by a directory.
13113 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
13114 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
13115 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
13116 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
13117 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
13119 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
13120 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
13121 about changes to DNS server status.
13123 o Minor features (directory):
13124 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
13125 too much load to the exit nodes.
13128 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
13130 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
13131 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
13132 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
13133 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
13134 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
13136 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
13137 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
13138 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
13140 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
13141 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
13142 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
13143 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
13144 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
13145 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
13146 config options if you like.
13148 o Minor features (config and docs):
13149 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
13150 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
13151 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
13152 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
13153 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
13155 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
13156 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
13157 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
13158 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
13159 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
13161 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
13162 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
13163 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
13164 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
13165 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
13166 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
13167 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
13168 documentation: "make check-docs".
13169 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
13170 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
13172 o Minor features (DNS):
13173 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
13174 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
13175 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
13176 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
13177 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
13178 our tests for DNS hijacking.
13180 o Minor features (directory):
13181 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
13182 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
13183 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
13184 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
13185 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
13186 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
13187 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
13188 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
13189 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
13190 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
13191 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
13192 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
13193 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
13194 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
13195 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
13196 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
13197 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
13198 for the thing we're trying to download.
13199 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
13200 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
13201 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
13203 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
13204 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
13205 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
13208 o Minor features (controller):
13209 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
13210 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
13212 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
13213 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
13214 entry guard status as it changes.
13216 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
13217 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
13218 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
13219 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
13220 to set log options.
13221 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
13222 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
13223 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
13224 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
13227 o Major bugfixes (security):
13228 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13229 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13230 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13231 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13233 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
13234 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
13235 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
13236 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
13237 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
13239 o Major bugfixes (other):
13240 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
13241 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
13242 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
13243 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
13245 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
13246 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
13247 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
13248 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
13249 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
13250 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
13254 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13255 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13256 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
13257 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
13258 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
13260 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
13261 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
13263 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
13264 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
13265 family lists conveniently.
13266 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
13267 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
13268 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
13270 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
13271 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
13273 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
13274 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
13275 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
13276 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
13277 if their identity keys are as expected.
13278 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
13279 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
13280 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
13282 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13283 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
13284 reported by Mike Perry.
13285 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
13286 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
13287 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
13288 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
13291 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
13292 o Security bugfixes:
13293 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
13294 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
13295 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
13296 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
13300 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
13301 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
13302 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
13305 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
13307 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
13308 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
13309 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
13312 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
13313 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
13314 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
13315 watching for STREAM events.
13316 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
13317 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
13318 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
13319 operations, for profiling.
13322 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
13323 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
13324 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
13325 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
13326 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
13327 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
13329 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
13333 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13334 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13335 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
13336 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
13337 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
13339 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
13340 correctly in the Windows installer.
13341 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13342 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13343 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
13344 MIPSpro C compiler.
13345 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
13346 when we're running as a client.
13349 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
13351 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
13352 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
13353 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
13354 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
13355 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
13356 its circuits on demand.
13357 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
13358 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
13359 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
13360 connections more stable on average.
13361 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
13362 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
13363 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
13365 o Security bugfixes:
13366 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
13367 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
13370 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
13372 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
13373 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
13374 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
13375 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
13376 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
13377 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
13378 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
13379 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
13382 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
13384 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
13385 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
13386 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
13387 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
13388 routers for even longer.
13389 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
13390 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
13391 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
13392 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
13393 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
13394 caching HTTP proxies.
13395 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
13398 o Minor features, controller:
13399 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
13400 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
13401 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
13402 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
13404 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
13405 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
13406 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
13407 working much like those for circuit events.
13408 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
13409 about the current status of a router.
13410 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
13411 a router's status has changed.
13412 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
13413 can tell which events and features are supported.
13414 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
13415 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
13417 o Security bugfixes:
13418 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
13419 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
13422 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
13423 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
13424 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
13425 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
13426 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
13427 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
13428 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
13429 long nicknames where appropriate.
13430 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
13431 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
13432 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
13433 chews through many circuits before giving up.
13434 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
13435 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
13436 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
13437 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
13438 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
13439 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
13441 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
13442 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
13443 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
13445 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
13446 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
13447 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
13448 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
13449 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
13450 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
13451 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
13452 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
13453 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
13454 (reported by fookoowa).
13455 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
13456 and reported by some Centos users.
13457 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
13458 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
13459 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
13460 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
13461 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
13462 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
13463 before we check for libevent.
13466 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
13468 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
13469 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
13470 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
13471 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
13472 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
13473 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
13474 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
13475 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
13476 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
13477 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
13478 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
13479 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
13480 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
13481 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
13482 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
13483 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
13484 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
13485 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
13486 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
13487 lets you turn it off.
13488 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
13489 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
13490 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
13491 us into the directory more quickly.
13493 o New/improved config options:
13494 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
13495 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
13496 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
13497 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
13498 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
13499 all the machines on the same subnet.
13500 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
13501 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
13502 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
13503 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
13504 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
13505 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
13506 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
13507 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
13508 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
13509 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
13511 o Minor features, controller:
13512 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
13513 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
13514 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
13515 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
13516 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
13517 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
13518 for more information.
13519 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
13520 best guess to the user.
13521 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
13522 descriptor has changed.
13523 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
13525 o Minor features, other:
13526 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
13527 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
13528 useful to the network.
13529 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
13530 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
13531 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
13532 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
13533 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
13534 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
13535 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
13536 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
13537 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
13538 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
13539 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
13540 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
13541 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
13542 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
13543 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
13545 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
13546 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
13547 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
13548 could return an unnamed server instead.
13549 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
13550 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
13551 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
13552 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
13553 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
13554 a more attractive target for compromise.)
13555 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
13556 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
13557 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
13559 o Major bugfixes, other:
13560 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
13561 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
13562 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
13563 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
13564 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
13565 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
13566 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
13567 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
13568 its circuits on demand.
13569 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
13570 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
13571 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
13572 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
13574 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
13575 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
13576 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
13577 we don't recognize.
13578 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
13580 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
13581 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
13582 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
13583 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
13584 "extendcircuit" request.
13585 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
13586 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
13587 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
13589 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
13590 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
13591 instead of "X resolved to X".
13592 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
13593 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
13594 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
13595 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
13596 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
13597 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
13598 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
13599 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
13600 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
13602 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
13603 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
13604 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
13605 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
13606 result more than once.
13607 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
13608 non-versioning dirservers.
13609 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
13610 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
13612 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
13613 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
13614 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
13615 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
13616 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
13617 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
13618 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
13619 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
13620 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
13622 o Packaging, features:
13623 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
13624 now universal binaries.
13625 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
13626 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
13627 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
13629 o Packaging, bugfixes:
13630 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
13631 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
13632 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
13633 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
13635 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
13636 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
13637 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
13640 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
13641 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
13642 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
13646 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
13648 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
13649 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
13650 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
13651 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
13652 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
13653 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
13654 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
13655 it can't resolve its hostname.
13658 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
13659 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
13660 "extendcircuit" request.
13661 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
13662 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
13663 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
13664 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
13666 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
13667 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
13668 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
13670 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
13671 methods: these are known to be buggy.
13672 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
13673 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
13674 we don't recognize.
13677 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
13679 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
13680 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
13681 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
13682 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
13683 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
13684 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
13685 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
13686 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
13687 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
13688 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
13689 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
13690 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
13691 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
13692 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
13693 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
13694 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
13695 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
13696 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
13697 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
13698 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
13699 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
13700 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
13701 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
13702 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
13705 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
13706 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
13707 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
13708 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
13709 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
13710 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
13711 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
13712 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
13713 recommendation system saner.)
13714 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
13716 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
13717 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
13718 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
13719 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
13720 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
13721 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
13722 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
13723 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
13724 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
13725 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
13726 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
13727 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
13728 your ORPort is set.
13729 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
13730 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
13731 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
13732 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
13733 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
13734 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
13735 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
13736 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
13737 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
13738 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
13739 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
13740 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
13742 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
13743 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
13744 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
13745 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
13746 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
13747 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
13750 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
13751 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
13752 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
13753 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
13754 our DirPort now, etc.
13755 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
13756 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
13757 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
13758 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
13759 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
13760 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
13761 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
13763 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
13764 whether the config options are bad or good.
13765 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
13766 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
13767 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
13768 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
13769 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
13770 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
13771 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
13772 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
13775 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
13776 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
13777 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
13778 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
13779 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
13780 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
13781 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
13782 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
13783 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
13784 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
13785 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
13786 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
13787 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
13788 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
13789 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
13790 of it), is not therefore "up".
13791 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
13792 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
13793 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
13794 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
13795 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
13796 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
13799 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
13801 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
13802 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
13803 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
13804 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
13805 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
13806 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
13807 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
13808 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
13809 test reachability, so you won't publish.
13812 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
13813 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
13814 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
13815 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
13816 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
13818 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
13819 own server descriptor yet.
13822 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
13824 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
13825 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
13826 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
13827 make sure to test via one of these.
13828 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
13829 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
13830 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
13831 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
13832 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
13834 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
13835 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
13836 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
13839 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
13840 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
13841 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
13842 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
13843 directory authority.
13844 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
13845 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
13846 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
13847 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
13850 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
13851 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
13852 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
13854 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
13855 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
13856 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
13857 current guards when picking a new guard.
13858 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
13859 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
13860 when we had more than one pending.
13861 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
13862 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
13863 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
13864 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
13865 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
13866 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
13867 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
13868 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
13869 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
13870 debug the reachability problems better.
13872 o Log / documentation fixes:
13873 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
13874 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
13875 about protocol violations by others.
13876 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
13877 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
13878 about what happened to our old torrc.
13881 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
13883 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
13885 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
13886 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
13887 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
13888 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
13891 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
13893 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
13894 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
13895 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
13896 old ORPort and receive connections.
13897 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
13899 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
13900 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
13901 and network-statuses.
13902 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
13903 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
13904 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
13905 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
13907 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
13910 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
13911 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
13912 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
13915 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
13917 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
13918 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
13919 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
13920 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
13921 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
13924 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
13925 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
13927 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
13928 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
13929 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
13930 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
13931 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
13932 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
13933 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
13934 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
13935 rather than not sending anything back at all.
13936 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
13937 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
13938 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
13939 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
13940 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
13941 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
13942 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
13943 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
13944 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
13945 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
13946 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
13947 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
13948 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
13949 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
13950 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
13951 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
13952 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
13953 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
13954 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
13955 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
13956 default ulimit -n is 1024.
13959 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
13960 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
13961 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
13962 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
13965 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
13967 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
13968 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
13969 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
13970 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
13971 entry guards running these flawed versions.
13972 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
13973 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
13974 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
13975 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
13976 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
13979 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
13980 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
13982 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
13983 and it is confusing some users.
13984 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
13985 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
13986 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
13987 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
13988 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
13991 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
13993 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
13994 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
13995 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
13996 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
13997 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
13998 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
13999 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
14000 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
14001 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
14002 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
14003 dirport is set for now.
14005 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
14006 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
14007 unattached before we fail it?
14008 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
14009 at least this many seconds ago.
14010 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
14011 at least this many seconds ago.
14014 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
14015 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
14016 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
14017 or resolve-wait stream.
14018 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
14019 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
14020 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
14021 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
14022 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
14023 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
14024 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
14025 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
14027 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
14028 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
14029 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
14030 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
14031 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
14032 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
14033 given as hex digests.
14034 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
14035 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
14036 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
14037 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
14038 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
14039 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
14040 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
14041 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
14044 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14045 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
14046 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
14047 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
14048 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
14049 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
14050 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
14051 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
14052 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
14053 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
14054 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
14057 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
14058 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
14059 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
14060 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
14061 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
14062 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
14063 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
14066 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
14067 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
14068 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
14069 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
14070 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
14071 misreading their logs.
14072 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
14073 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
14074 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
14075 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
14076 valid router descriptors.
14077 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
14078 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
14079 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
14080 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
14081 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
14082 silently resetting it to its default.
14083 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
14085 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
14088 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
14089 use clean circuits.
14090 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
14091 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
14092 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
14093 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
14094 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
14096 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
14097 because older Tors do not understand it.
14098 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
14102 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
14103 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14104 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
14105 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
14106 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
14107 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
14108 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
14109 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
14110 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
14111 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
14112 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
14114 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
14115 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
14116 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
14117 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
14119 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
14120 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
14123 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
14124 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
14125 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14126 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14127 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14128 without getting overloaded.
14129 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
14131 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
14132 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
14133 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
14134 be forward-compatible.
14135 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
14136 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
14137 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
14138 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
14140 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
14141 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
14142 and OR conns to port 443.
14143 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
14144 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
14146 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
14147 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
14148 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
14149 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
14150 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
14151 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
14152 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
14155 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
14156 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14157 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
14158 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
14160 o Other important bugfixes:
14161 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14162 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14163 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14164 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14166 o Backported features:
14167 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
14168 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
14169 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
14170 without getting overloaded.
14171 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
14172 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
14173 503's whenever they feel busy.
14174 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
14175 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
14176 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
14177 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
14178 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
14181 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
14182 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14183 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
14184 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
14185 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
14186 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
14187 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
14188 know if the crashes continue.
14189 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
14190 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
14191 seg faults in at least some cases.)
14192 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
14193 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
14194 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
14197 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
14198 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
14199 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
14200 try to be a bit more fair.
14201 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
14202 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
14203 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
14204 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
14205 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
14206 bug that let it go negative.
14207 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
14208 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
14209 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
14210 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
14211 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
14212 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
14213 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
14214 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
14215 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
14216 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
14217 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
14220 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
14222 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
14223 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
14224 service descriptors.
14227 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
14228 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
14229 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
14230 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
14232 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
14233 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
14234 versions *are* still recommended.
14235 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
14236 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
14237 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
14238 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
14239 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
14240 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
14241 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
14242 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
14244 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
14245 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
14246 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
14247 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
14248 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
14249 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
14250 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
14251 on it. Not used by clients yet.
14252 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
14253 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
14254 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
14255 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
14256 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
14257 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
14258 established a circuit.
14259 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
14260 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
14261 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
14262 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
14265 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
14266 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14267 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
14268 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
14269 quickly enough. Oops.
14270 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
14272 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14273 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
14276 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
14277 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
14278 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
14279 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
14280 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
14281 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
14282 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
14283 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
14284 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
14285 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
14286 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
14287 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
14288 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
14289 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
14290 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
14291 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
14292 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
14295 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
14296 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
14297 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
14298 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
14299 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
14300 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
14301 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
14302 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
14303 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
14304 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
14305 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
14306 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
14307 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
14308 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
14309 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
14310 connections more reliable.
14313 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
14314 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
14315 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
14316 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
14317 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
14318 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
14319 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
14320 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
14321 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
14322 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
14323 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
14324 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
14325 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
14326 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
14330 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
14331 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
14332 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
14333 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
14334 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
14335 need to be uint64_t's.
14336 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
14337 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
14338 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
14340 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
14342 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
14343 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
14344 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
14345 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
14346 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
14347 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
14348 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
14350 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
14351 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
14352 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
14353 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
14354 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
14355 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
14356 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
14357 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
14358 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
14359 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
14360 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
14361 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
14362 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
14365 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
14366 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
14367 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
14368 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
14369 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
14370 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
14371 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
14373 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
14374 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
14375 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
14376 can answer v2 directory requests too.
14377 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
14378 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
14379 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
14380 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
14382 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
14383 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
14384 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
14385 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
14386 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
14387 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
14388 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
14389 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
14390 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
14391 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
14392 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
14393 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
14394 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
14395 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
14396 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
14398 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
14399 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
14402 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
14403 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14404 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
14405 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
14406 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
14407 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
14408 too -- so detect and avoid this.
14409 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
14411 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
14412 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
14413 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
14414 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
14415 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
14416 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
14417 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
14418 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
14419 rendezvous circuits.
14420 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
14422 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14423 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
14424 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
14425 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
14426 advertising it because of hibernation.
14427 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
14428 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
14429 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
14430 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
14431 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
14432 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
14433 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
14434 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
14435 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
14436 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
14437 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
14438 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
14439 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
14440 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
14443 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
14444 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14445 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
14446 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
14447 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
14448 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
14449 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
14450 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
14451 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
14452 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
14453 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
14454 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
14455 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
14456 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
14457 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
14458 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
14459 connections once a week.
14460 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
14461 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
14462 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
14463 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
14464 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
14465 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
14467 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
14468 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
14469 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
14471 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14472 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
14473 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
14474 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
14475 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
14476 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
14477 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
14478 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
14479 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
14480 firewall options forbid.
14481 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
14482 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
14483 can only proxy to certain destinations.
14484 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
14485 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
14486 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
14487 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
14488 aids some statistical attacks.
14489 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
14490 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
14491 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
14492 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
14494 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
14495 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
14496 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
14497 server descriptor sometimes.
14498 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
14499 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
14500 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
14501 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
14502 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
14503 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
14504 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
14505 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
14507 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
14508 case the controller wants to change that too.
14509 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
14510 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
14511 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
14512 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
14514 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
14515 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
14516 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
14518 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
14519 descriptors that they know they will reject.
14521 o Features and updates:
14522 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
14523 significantly faster.
14524 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
14525 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
14526 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
14527 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
14528 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
14529 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
14530 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
14531 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
14532 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
14533 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
14534 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
14535 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
14536 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
14537 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
14538 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
14539 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
14540 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
14541 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
14542 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
14543 as authoritative dirserver.
14544 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
14545 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
14546 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
14549 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
14550 o Usability improvements:
14551 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
14552 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
14554 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
14555 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
14556 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
14558 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
14559 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
14560 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
14561 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
14562 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
14563 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
14564 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
14565 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
14566 memory leaks better.
14567 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
14568 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
14569 their operators to pay close attention.
14570 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
14571 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
14573 o Performance improvements:
14574 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
14575 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
14576 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
14577 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
14578 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
14579 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
14580 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
14581 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
14582 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
14583 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
14584 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
14585 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
14586 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
14587 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
14588 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
14589 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
14590 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
14592 o Security improvements:
14593 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
14594 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
14595 fingerprint of server.
14596 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
14597 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
14598 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
14600 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14601 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
14602 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
14603 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
14604 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
14605 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
14606 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
14607 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
14608 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
14609 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
14610 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
14611 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
14612 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
14613 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
14614 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
14615 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
14616 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
14617 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
14618 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
14619 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
14620 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
14622 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
14623 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
14624 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
14626 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
14627 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
14629 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
14630 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
14631 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
14632 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
14633 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
14634 of the controller protocol.
14635 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
14636 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
14637 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
14640 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
14641 o New features (major):
14642 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
14643 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
14644 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
14645 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
14646 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
14647 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
14648 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
14649 we're using a default DirPort.
14650 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
14652 o New features (minor):
14653 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
14654 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
14655 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
14656 mirrors still cache and serve it).
14657 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
14658 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
14659 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
14660 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
14661 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
14662 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
14663 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
14664 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
14665 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
14666 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
14667 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
14668 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
14669 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
14670 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
14671 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
14673 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
14674 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
14675 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
14676 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
14677 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
14678 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
14679 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
14680 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
14682 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
14683 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
14684 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
14685 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
14686 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
14687 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
14688 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
14689 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
14690 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
14691 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
14693 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
14694 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
14695 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
14696 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
14697 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
14699 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
14700 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
14701 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
14703 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
14704 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
14706 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
14707 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
14708 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
14709 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
14710 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
14711 don't warn twice about the same name.
14712 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
14713 if we've not heard of the server.
14714 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
14715 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
14718 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
14719 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14720 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
14721 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
14722 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
14723 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
14724 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
14725 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
14726 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
14727 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
14728 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
14729 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
14730 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
14731 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
14732 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
14735 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
14736 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
14737 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
14738 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
14739 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
14741 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
14742 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
14743 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
14744 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
14745 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
14746 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
14750 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
14751 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
14752 nickname) is reachable by you.
14753 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
14756 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
14757 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
14758 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
14759 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
14760 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
14761 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
14762 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
14763 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
14764 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
14765 we fail to connect).
14766 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
14767 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
14768 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
14769 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
14771 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
14772 it was self-testing that told us so.
14775 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
14776 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
14777 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
14778 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
14779 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
14780 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
14781 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
14782 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
14783 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
14784 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
14785 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
14786 exit policy using him for any exits.
14787 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
14790 o New controller features/fixes:
14791 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
14792 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
14793 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
14794 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
14795 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
14796 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
14797 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
14798 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
14799 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
14801 o Start on the new directory design:
14802 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
14803 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
14805 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
14806 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
14807 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
14808 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
14810 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
14811 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
14812 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
14813 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
14814 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
14815 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
14816 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
14817 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
14820 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
14821 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
14822 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
14823 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
14824 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
14825 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
14826 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
14827 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
14828 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
14829 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
14831 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
14832 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
14833 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
14834 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
14835 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
14836 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
14837 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
14838 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
14839 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
14841 o Config option changes:
14842 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
14843 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
14844 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
14845 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
14846 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
14847 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
14849 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
14850 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
14851 people have started using them for spam too.
14852 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
14853 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
14854 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
14855 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
14856 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
14857 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
14858 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
14859 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
14860 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
14861 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
14862 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
14863 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
14864 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
14865 services faster on the service end.
14866 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
14867 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
14868 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
14869 it a fair shake next time we try.
14870 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
14871 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
14872 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
14873 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
14874 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
14875 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
14876 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
14877 able to discover them.
14878 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
14879 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
14880 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
14881 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
14882 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
14883 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
14884 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
14885 testing for reachability.
14886 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
14887 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
14889 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
14891 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
14892 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
14895 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
14896 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
14898 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14899 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
14900 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
14901 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
14904 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
14905 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14906 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
14908 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
14909 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
14912 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
14913 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
14916 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
14917 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
14918 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
14919 options, getinfo keys.
14922 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
14923 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14924 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
14925 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
14926 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
14927 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
14928 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
14930 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
14931 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
14935 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
14936 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
14937 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
14939 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
14941 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
14942 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
14943 circuit events and we go offline.
14944 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
14945 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
14946 you don't have enough intro points already.
14948 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
14949 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
14950 many bytes we've used in this time period.
14951 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
14952 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
14953 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
14954 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
14955 enabled by default yet.
14957 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
14958 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
14959 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
14960 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
14961 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
14964 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
14965 o New directory servers:
14966 - tor26 has changed IP address.
14968 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
14969 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
14970 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
14971 pthreads libraries.
14972 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
14973 claims its dirport is 0.
14974 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
14975 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
14979 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
14980 o New directory servers:
14981 - tor26 has changed IP address.
14983 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
14984 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
14986 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
14987 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
14988 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
14989 ports that have changed.
14990 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
14992 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
14993 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
14994 Windows-style errno back.
14995 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
14997 want to make it an NT service.
14998 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
14999 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
15000 name, give the full name in our response.
15001 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
15002 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
15003 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
15004 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
15005 pthreads libraries.
15007 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15008 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
15012 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
15013 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
15014 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
15015 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
15016 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
15019 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
15020 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15021 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
15022 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
15023 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15024 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15025 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15026 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
15029 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
15031 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
15032 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
15033 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
15034 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
15035 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
15036 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
15038 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
15039 temporarily unreachable.
15040 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
15044 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
15045 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
15046 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
15047 our protocol works.
15048 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
15052 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
15053 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
15054 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
15055 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
15056 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
15060 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
15061 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
15062 libevent before 1.1a.
15065 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
15067 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
15068 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
15069 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
15070 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
15071 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
15073 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
15074 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
15075 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
15076 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
15077 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
15078 of CPU time plus memory.
15079 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
15080 normal web requests.
15081 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
15082 tor_lookup_hostname().
15083 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
15084 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
15085 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
15086 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
15087 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
15088 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
15090 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
15091 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
15092 HttpProxyAuthenticator
15093 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
15094 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
15095 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
15097 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
15098 the user asks you to.
15099 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
15100 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
15101 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
15102 their descriptors are being rejected.
15103 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
15107 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
15109 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
15110 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
15111 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
15113 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
15115 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
15117 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
15118 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
15119 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
15120 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
15121 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
15122 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
15123 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
15124 keys) from the exit server's process.
15125 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
15126 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
15127 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
15128 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
15129 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
15130 point at your Tor server.
15131 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
15132 you're not sending a socks reply back.
15135 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
15136 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
15137 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
15138 to make it easier to write controllers.
15141 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
15143 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
15144 installing on Tiger.
15145 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
15146 complain during installation.
15147 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
15148 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
15149 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
15150 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
15151 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
15152 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
15154 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
15155 something more reasonable when first installing.
15156 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
15159 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
15161 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
15162 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
15164 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
15165 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
15166 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
15167 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
15168 when using the default exit policy.
15169 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
15170 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
15171 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
15172 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
15173 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
15174 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
15175 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
15176 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
15177 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
15178 we fetched a new directory.
15179 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
15180 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
15183 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
15184 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
15185 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
15186 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
15187 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
15188 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
15189 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
15190 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
15192 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
15193 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
15194 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
15195 save memory on systems that need to fork.
15196 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
15197 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
15198 is valid without actually launching Tor.
15199 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
15200 rather than just rejecting it.
15203 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
15205 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
15206 we didn't like its cert.
15208 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
15209 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
15210 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
15211 on patch from Adam Langley.
15212 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
15213 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
15214 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
15215 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
15217 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
15218 directory every time you regenerate it.
15219 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
15220 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
15223 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
15224 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15225 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15226 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
15227 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
15230 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
15232 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
15233 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
15234 TLS errors better in other situations too.
15235 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
15236 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
15237 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
15238 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
15239 and don't log when you are.
15240 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
15241 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
15243 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
15244 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
15245 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
15246 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
15247 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
15250 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
15251 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15252 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
15253 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
15254 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
15255 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
15256 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
15257 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
15258 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
15259 nickname+key are allowed.
15260 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
15261 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
15262 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
15263 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
15264 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
15265 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
15266 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
15267 have quite wrong clocks).
15268 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
15269 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
15270 - Efficiency improvements:
15271 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
15272 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
15273 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
15274 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
15275 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
15276 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
15277 lowercase and be done with it.
15278 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
15279 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
15280 to abandon partially built circuits.
15281 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
15282 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
15284 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
15286 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
15287 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
15288 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
15289 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
15291 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
15292 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
15294 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
15295 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
15296 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
15297 obeying the exit policy internally.
15298 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
15299 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
15301 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
15302 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
15303 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
15304 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
15306 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
15307 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
15308 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
15309 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
15310 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
15312 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
15313 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
15314 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
15315 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
15316 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
15317 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
15318 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
15319 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
15320 descriptors we just dropped.
15321 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
15322 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
15323 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
15324 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
15325 artificially capped at 500kB.
15328 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
15329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15330 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
15331 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
15332 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
15333 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
15334 busy for more than 100 seconds.
15337 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
15338 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
15339 - Fixes on reachability detection:
15340 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
15341 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
15342 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
15343 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
15344 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
15345 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
15346 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
15347 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
15348 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
15349 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
15350 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
15351 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
15352 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
15353 server not already connected to them.
15354 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
15355 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
15356 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
15358 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
15360 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
15361 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
15362 are in a different state than they actually are.
15363 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
15364 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
15365 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
15367 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
15368 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
15369 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
15371 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
15372 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
15373 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
15374 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
15375 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
15376 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
15377 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
15379 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
15380 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
15381 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
15382 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
15385 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
15386 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15387 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
15388 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
15389 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
15390 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
15391 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
15392 creating actual system users.
15393 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
15394 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
15398 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
15400 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
15401 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
15402 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
15403 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
15404 hidden services better.
15405 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
15407 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
15408 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
15409 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
15410 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
15411 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
15412 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
15413 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
15414 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
15415 patch by Matt Edman).
15416 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
15417 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
15418 required exit node for certain sites.
15419 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
15420 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
15421 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
15422 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
15423 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
15424 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
15425 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
15426 rather than just "success" or "failure".
15427 - A more sane version numbering system. See
15428 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
15429 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
15430 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
15432 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
15433 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
15434 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
15435 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
15436 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
15437 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
15438 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
15440 o Robustness/stability fixes:
15441 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
15442 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
15443 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
15445 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
15446 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
15447 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
15449 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
15450 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
15451 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
15453 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
15454 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
15455 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
15456 that will want high uptime circuits.
15457 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
15458 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
15459 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
15460 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
15461 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
15462 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
15463 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
15464 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
15465 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
15466 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
15467 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
15468 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
15469 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
15470 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
15471 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
15472 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
15473 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
15474 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
15475 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
15476 when we try to launch one.
15477 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
15478 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
15479 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
15480 "ShutdownWaitLength".
15481 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
15482 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
15483 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
15484 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
15485 and to take errno into account where possible.
15488 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
15489 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
15490 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
15491 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
15492 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
15493 file more reasonable.
15494 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
15495 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
15496 addresses -- it won't.
15497 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
15498 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
15499 for google.com" problem.
15500 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
15501 so it's not just "unknown platform".
15502 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
15503 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
15504 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
15505 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
15507 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
15508 they could use instead.
15509 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
15510 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
15511 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
15512 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
15513 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
15514 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
15515 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
15516 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
15517 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
15519 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
15523 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
15524 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
15526 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
15527 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
15528 private-IP addresses.
15529 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
15530 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
15532 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
15533 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
15534 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
15535 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
15536 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
15537 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
15538 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
15540 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
15541 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
15542 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
15543 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
15544 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
15545 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
15546 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
15547 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
15549 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
15551 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
15552 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
15553 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
15554 whether the server is hibernating.
15557 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
15558 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
15559 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
15560 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
15561 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
15562 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
15563 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
15564 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
15565 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
15566 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
15567 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
15568 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
15569 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
15570 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
15571 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
15573 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
15574 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
15575 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
15576 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
15577 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
15578 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
15579 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
15580 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
15581 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
15582 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
15583 existing torrc files.
15584 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
15587 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
15588 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
15589 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
15590 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
15591 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
15592 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
15593 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
15594 the win32 SYSTEM account.
15595 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
15596 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
15597 file descriptors available.
15598 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
15599 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
15600 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
15603 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
15604 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
15605 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
15606 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
15608 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
15609 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
15610 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
15611 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
15612 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
15614 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
15615 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
15616 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
15617 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
15618 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
15619 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
15620 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
15621 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
15622 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
15623 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
15624 800kB/s of capacity.
15625 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
15628 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
15629 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
15630 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
15631 need as much processor time.
15632 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
15633 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
15634 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
15635 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
15636 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
15637 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
15638 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
15639 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
15640 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
15641 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
15642 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
15643 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
15645 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
15646 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
15647 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
15648 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
15649 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
15650 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
15651 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
15654 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
15655 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
15656 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
15658 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
15659 style address, then we'd crash.
15660 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
15661 a dirserver is broken.
15662 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
15664 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
15665 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
15666 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
15668 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
15669 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
15670 name out of the warning/assert messages.
15671 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
15672 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
15673 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
15675 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
15676 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
15677 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
15679 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
15681 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
15682 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
15683 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
15684 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
15685 values at once couldn't work.
15686 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
15687 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
15688 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
15689 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
15690 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
15691 they can handle any number of routers.
15692 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
15693 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
15694 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
15695 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
15696 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
15697 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
15698 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
15699 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
15700 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
15703 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
15704 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
15705 - Make hibernation actually work.
15706 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
15707 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
15708 don't use the stream status code.
15711 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
15713 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
15714 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
15716 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
15719 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
15720 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
15721 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
15722 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
15723 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
15724 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
15725 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
15726 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
15727 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
15728 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
15730 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15731 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
15732 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
15733 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
15734 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
15735 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
15736 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
15737 - Make unit tests work on win32.
15740 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
15741 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
15742 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
15744 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
15745 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
15746 than just chopping them off.
15747 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
15749 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15750 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
15751 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
15752 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
15753 right after sending the begin cell.
15754 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
15755 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
15756 exit nodes too. Oops.
15759 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
15760 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
15761 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
15762 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
15763 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
15764 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
15765 the user knows which one it's talking about.
15766 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
15767 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
15768 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
15771 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
15772 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15773 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
15774 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
15776 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
15778 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
15779 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
15780 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
15782 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
15783 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
15784 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
15785 Clip rather than rejecting.
15786 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
15787 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
15790 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
15791 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
15792 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
15793 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
15795 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
15798 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
15799 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15800 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
15801 win32 socket errors better.
15803 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
15804 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
15807 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
15808 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15809 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
15810 so we don't see those messages days later.
15812 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
15813 - Make tor-resolve work again.
15814 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
15815 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
15818 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
15819 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
15820 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
15821 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
15823 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
15824 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
15825 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
15828 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
15829 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15830 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
15831 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
15832 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
15833 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
15834 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
15835 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
15836 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
15838 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
15839 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
15840 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
15841 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
15843 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
15844 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
15847 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
15848 hibernation properties by
15849 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
15850 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
15851 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
15852 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
15853 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
15854 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
15855 get back to normal.)
15856 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
15858 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
15859 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
15860 to fill the last cell completely.
15861 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
15864 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
15865 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
15866 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
15867 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
15868 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
15869 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
15870 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
15871 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
15872 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
15873 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
15874 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
15876 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
15877 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
15878 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
15879 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
15880 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
15881 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
15882 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
15883 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
15885 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
15886 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
15887 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
15888 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
15889 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
15890 have it on start-up.
15893 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
15894 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
15895 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
15896 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
15897 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
15898 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
15899 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
15900 configuration to torrc.
15901 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
15902 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
15903 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
15904 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
15905 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
15907 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
15908 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
15909 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
15910 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
15911 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
15912 log more informatively.
15913 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
15914 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
15915 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
15916 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
15917 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
15918 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
15919 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
15920 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
15921 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
15922 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
15923 from each other, to hinder linkability.
15926 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
15927 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
15928 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
15929 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
15930 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
15931 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
15932 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
15934 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
15935 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
15936 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
15937 they ran out of file descriptors.
15938 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
15939 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
15940 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
15941 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
15942 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
15943 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
15944 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
15946 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
15949 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
15950 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
15951 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
15952 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
15953 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
15954 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
15955 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
15956 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
15957 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
15958 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
15959 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
15960 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
15961 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
15962 with the control port.
15963 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
15964 use in authenticating to the control interface.
15965 - New log format in config:
15966 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
15967 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
15970 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
15971 from their dirserver.
15972 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
15974 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
15975 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
15976 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
15977 them act more like real nodes.
15978 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
15979 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
15981 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
15982 nickname to its identity key.
15983 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
15984 not on the command line.
15985 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
15986 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
15987 1024) file descriptors.
15989 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
15990 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
15992 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
15993 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
15994 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
15997 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
15998 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
15999 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
16000 exit policy, not reject *:*.
16001 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
16002 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
16003 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
16004 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
16005 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
16006 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
16007 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
16010 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
16011 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
16012 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
16013 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
16014 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
16015 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
16016 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
16019 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
16020 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
16021 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
16022 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
16023 the ones we find in directories.)
16024 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
16026 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
16027 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
16029 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
16030 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
16031 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
16033 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
16034 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
16035 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
16036 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
16038 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
16039 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
16040 any more exit policy lines.
16043 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
16044 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
16045 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
16046 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
16047 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
16048 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
16049 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
16050 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
16051 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
16052 will be able to get a directory.
16053 - Http proxy support
16054 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
16055 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
16056 be routed through this host.
16057 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
16058 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
16059 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
16060 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
16063 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
16065 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
16066 clients/servers with an open dirport.
16067 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16068 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16069 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16070 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16071 intermittent connections.
16072 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
16073 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
16075 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
16076 in reporting stats locally.
16077 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
16078 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
16079 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
16082 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
16084 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
16085 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
16088 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
16090 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
16091 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
16092 if you don't want it open.
16093 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
16094 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
16095 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
16096 intermittent connections.
16097 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
16099 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
16100 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
16101 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
16102 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
16103 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
16104 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
16105 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
16106 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
16107 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
16108 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
16109 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
16110 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
16111 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
16112 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
16113 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
16114 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
16117 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
16118 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
16119 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
16120 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
16121 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
16123 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
16125 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
16126 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
16127 specified in HTTP 1.0.
16128 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
16129 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
16130 than once per minute.
16131 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
16132 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
16135 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
16136 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
16139 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
16140 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
16141 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
16142 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
16145 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
16146 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
16148 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
16149 don't put it into the client dns cache.
16150 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
16151 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
16152 until we get our next directory.
16154 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
16155 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
16156 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
16157 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
16158 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
16159 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
16160 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
16161 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
16162 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
16163 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
16164 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
16166 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
16168 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
16169 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
16171 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
16172 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
16173 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
16175 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
16177 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
16178 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
16179 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
16180 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
16181 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
16182 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
16183 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
16184 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
16187 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
16188 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
16189 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
16190 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
16193 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
16194 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
16195 ask them to resolve the host "".
16198 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
16199 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16200 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
16201 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
16202 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
16203 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
16204 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
16205 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
16206 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
16207 clients don't use this yet.)
16208 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
16209 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
16210 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
16211 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
16212 for pointing out this bug.)
16213 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
16214 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
16215 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
16216 kazaa, gnutella ports.
16217 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
16219 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
16220 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
16221 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
16222 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
16223 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
16224 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
16225 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
16226 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
16227 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
16228 wolf unpredictably.
16229 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
16230 that's still handshaking.
16231 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
16232 you'll choose it for your path.
16233 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
16234 end relay cell, etc.
16235 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
16236 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
16237 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
16240 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
16241 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
16243 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
16244 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
16245 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
16246 list to decide who's running or verified.
16247 - Bugfixes and features:
16248 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
16249 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
16250 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
16251 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
16252 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
16253 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
16255 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
16256 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
16257 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
16258 know you might want to get it verified.
16259 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
16262 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
16264 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
16265 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
16266 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
16267 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
16269 o Protocol changes:
16270 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
16271 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
16272 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
16273 hadn't heard of before.
16276 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
16277 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
16278 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
16279 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
16280 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
16281 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
16282 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
16283 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
16284 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
16285 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
16286 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
16287 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
16288 - Directory caching.
16289 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
16290 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
16291 directory they've pulled down.
16292 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
16293 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
16294 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
16295 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
16296 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
16297 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
16298 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
16300 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
16301 This isn't used yet.
16302 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
16303 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
16304 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
16305 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
16306 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
16307 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
16308 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
16309 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
16310 - File and name management:
16311 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
16312 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
16314 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
16315 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
16316 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
16317 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
16318 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
16319 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
16320 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
16322 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
16323 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
16324 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
16325 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
16326 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
16328 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
16329 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
16330 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
16331 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
16332 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
16333 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
16334 - New docs in the tarball:
16336 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
16339 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
16340 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
16341 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
16344 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
16345 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
16346 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
16349 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
16350 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
16353 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
16354 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
16355 - Make it build on Win32 again.
16356 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
16357 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
16361 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
16363 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
16364 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
16365 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
16366 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
16367 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
16368 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
16369 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
16370 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
16371 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
16372 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
16375 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
16378 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
16379 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
16380 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
16381 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
16383 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
16384 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
16385 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
16387 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
16388 hidden service per 15-minute period.
16389 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
16390 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
16391 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
16392 o Fixes for security bugs:
16393 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
16394 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
16395 a trusted dirserver.
16397 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
16398 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
16399 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
16400 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
16401 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
16402 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
16403 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
16404 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
16405 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
16406 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
16408 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
16409 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
16410 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
16411 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
16413 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
16414 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
16415 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
16416 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
16417 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
16418 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
16419 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
16420 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
16421 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
16422 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
16423 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
16424 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
16425 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
16428 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
16429 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
16430 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
16431 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
16434 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
16435 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
16436 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
16437 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
16438 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
16439 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
16440 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
16444 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
16445 [version bump only]
16448 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
16449 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
16450 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
16451 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
16452 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
16454 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
16457 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
16458 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
16459 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
16460 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
16461 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
16462 o Better debugging for tls errors
16463 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
16464 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
16465 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
16466 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
16467 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
16468 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
16469 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
16470 o win32's close can't close a socket.
16473 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
16474 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
16475 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
16476 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
16477 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
16478 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
16479 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
16480 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
16481 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
16482 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
16483 just close the circ.
16484 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
16485 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
16486 (this was quite rare).
16489 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
16490 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
16491 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
16492 if you decrypted them correctly.
16493 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
16494 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
16495 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
16498 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
16499 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
16500 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
16501 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
16502 a second one and it works.
16503 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
16504 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
16505 alice would just have to wait to time out.
16506 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
16507 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
16508 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
16509 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
16510 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
16511 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
16512 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
16513 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
16514 i'd still like to find the bug though.
16515 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
16517 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
16521 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
16522 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
16523 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
16524 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
16525 he retries a couple of times
16526 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
16527 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
16528 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
16529 too long (they were sticking around forever).
16530 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
16534 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
16535 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
16536 - make hup work again
16537 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
16538 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
16539 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
16540 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
16541 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
16542 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
16544 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
16545 o changes from 0.0.5:
16546 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
16547 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
16548 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
16549 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
16550 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
16552 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
16553 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
16554 in-memory directories too
16557 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
16558 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
16561 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
16563 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
16564 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
16565 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
16566 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
16569 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
16570 [version bump only]
16573 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
16574 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
16576 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
16577 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
16578 but that aren't warnings
16581 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
16582 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
16583 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
16584 the dns farm to do it.
16585 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
16586 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
16588 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
16589 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
16590 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
16593 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
16594 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
16595 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
16596 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
16597 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
16598 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
16599 expect it to have a nickname.
16600 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
16601 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
16604 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
16605 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
16609 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
16610 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
16611 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
16612 - include missing header fcntl.h
16613 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
16614 - deal with hardware word alignment
16615 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
16616 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
16617 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
16618 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
16619 by kill -USR1 currently.
16620 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
16621 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
16622 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
16625 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
16626 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
16627 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
16630 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
16632 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
16633 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
16634 - And fix a few endian issues.
16637 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
16639 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
16640 try that circuit again: try a new one.
16641 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
16642 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
16643 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
16644 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
16645 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
16646 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
16648 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
16649 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
16650 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
16652 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
16654 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
16655 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
16656 side isn't reading right then.
16657 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
16658 RecommendedVersions
16659 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
16660 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
16661 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
16664 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
16666 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
16667 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
16670 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
16674 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
16676 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
16677 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
16678 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
16679 connection is finished.
16680 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
16681 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
16682 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
16683 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
16684 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
16685 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
16686 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
16687 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
16688 rather than warn and continue.
16689 - Make --version work
16690 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
16693 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
16695 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
16696 knows it's working.
16697 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
16698 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
16700 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
16701 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
16702 so you can collect coredumps there.
16704 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
16705 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
16706 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
16707 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
16708 dns cache actually gets populated.
16709 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
16710 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
16711 end cell down it first.
16712 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
16713 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
16716 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
16718 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
16719 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
16721 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
16722 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
16723 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
16724 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
16725 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
16726 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
16728 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
16730 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
16731 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
16732 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
16733 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
16734 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
16735 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
16737 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
16738 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
16741 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
16743 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
16744 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
16745 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
16746 tor. It even has a man page.
16747 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
16748 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
16749 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
16750 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
16752 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
16754 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
16757 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
16759 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
16760 it, apt-getters. :)
16761 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
16762 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
16763 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
16764 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
16765 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
16766 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
16767 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
16768 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
16769 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
16770 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
16771 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
16773 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
16774 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
16777 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
16779 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
16780 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
16783 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
16785 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
16786 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
16787 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
16788 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
16789 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
16790 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
16791 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
16792 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
16793 logfile so you know it's working.
16794 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
16795 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
16798 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
16800 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
16801 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
16802 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
16805 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
16807 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
16808 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
16809 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
16812 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
16813 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
16814 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
16816 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
16817 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
16819 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
16820 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
16821 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
16823 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
16824 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
16828 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
16830 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
16831 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
16832 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
16835 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
16836 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
16837 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
16838 - Add port ranges to exit policies
16839 - Add a conservative default exit policy
16840 - Warn if you're running tor as root
16841 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
16842 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
16843 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
16844 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
16846 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
16849 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
16850 o Robustness and bugfixes:
16851 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
16852 really screw things up.
16853 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
16855 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
16856 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
16858 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
16859 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
16860 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
16861 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
16862 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
16863 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
16866 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
16869 - Change default loglevel to warn.
16870 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
16871 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
16873 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
16876 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
16877 o Robustness and bugfixes:
16878 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
16879 - to get ownership/permissions right
16880 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
16881 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
16882 pull down a directory again
16883 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
16884 causing server crashes
16885 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
16886 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
16887 - exit if bind() fails
16888 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
16889 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
16890 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
16891 - fix minor bias in PRNG
16892 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
16895 - Wrote the design document (woo)
16897 o Circuit building and exit policies:
16898 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
16900 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
16901 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
16902 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
16903 exists, rather than failing
16904 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
16905 which AP connections are standing by
16906 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
16907 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
16908 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
16910 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
16911 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
16914 - APPort is now called SocksPort
16915 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
16917 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
16918 hardcoded (for dirservers)
16919 - Reloads config on HUP
16920 - Usage info on -h or --help
16921 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
16924 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
16925 o General stability:
16926 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
16927 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
16928 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
16929 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
16930 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
16931 to take down the network when I approve a new router
16932 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
16935 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
16936 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
16938 o Autoconf improvements:
16939 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
16940 - Make install now works
16941 - create var/lib/tor on make install
16942 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
16943 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
16945 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
16946 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
16947 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
16948 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup