1 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
2 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3 some affecting usability.
5 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
6 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
7 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
8 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
9 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
10 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
11 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
14 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
15 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
16 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
17 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
20 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
21 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
22 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
24 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
25 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
26 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
27 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
30 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
31 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
32 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
34 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
35 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
36 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
37 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
39 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
40 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
41 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
42 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
44 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
45 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
46 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
48 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
49 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
50 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
51 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
52 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
54 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
55 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
56 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
58 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
59 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
60 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
61 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
63 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
64 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
68 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
69 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
70 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
71 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
72 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
73 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
76 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
77 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
78 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
79 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
80 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
82 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
83 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
84 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
87 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
88 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
90 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
91 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
92 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
93 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
94 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
95 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
98 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
99 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
100 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
101 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
102 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
103 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
107 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
108 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
109 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
110 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
112 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
113 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
114 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
115 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
116 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
117 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
119 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
120 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
121 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
122 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
123 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
125 o Minor features (testing):
126 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
127 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
128 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
129 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
130 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
132 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
133 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
134 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
135 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
137 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
138 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
139 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
140 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
142 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
143 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
144 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
145 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
147 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
148 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
149 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
150 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
151 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
152 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
153 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
154 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
155 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
156 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
157 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
159 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
160 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
161 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
162 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
163 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
164 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
166 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
167 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
168 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
169 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
170 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
171 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
174 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
175 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
176 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
177 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
178 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
179 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
180 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
181 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
183 o Code simplification and refactoring:
184 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
185 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
188 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
189 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
190 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
191 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
192 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
196 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
197 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
198 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
199 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
200 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
201 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
202 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
206 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
207 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
208 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
209 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
210 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
211 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
212 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
213 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
214 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
215 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
216 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
219 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
220 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
221 as soon as packages are available.
223 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
224 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
225 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
226 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
227 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
228 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
229 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
230 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
231 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
233 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
234 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
235 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
236 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
237 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
239 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
240 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
241 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
242 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
243 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
245 o Minor features (diagnostic):
246 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
247 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
248 code. Closes ticket 33290.
250 o Minor features (directory authorities):
251 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
252 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
253 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
255 o Minor features (usability):
256 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
257 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
258 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
260 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
261 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
262 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
263 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
266 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
267 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
268 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
269 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
270 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
272 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
273 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
276 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
277 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
278 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
279 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
283 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
284 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
285 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
288 o Documentation (manpage):
289 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
290 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
291 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
292 Google Season of Docs.
293 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
294 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
296 o Testing (Travis CI):
297 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
298 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
299 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
301 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
302 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
303 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
304 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
305 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
308 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
309 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
310 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
311 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
314 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
315 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
316 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
317 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
319 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
320 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
321 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
322 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
324 o Minor features (continuous integration):
325 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
326 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
327 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
328 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
331 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
332 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
333 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
335 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
336 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
337 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
338 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
340 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
341 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
342 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
344 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
345 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
346 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
347 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
348 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
350 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
351 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
352 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
353 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
355 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
356 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
357 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
358 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
360 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
361 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
362 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
363 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
366 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
367 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
368 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
369 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
371 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
372 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
373 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
374 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
376 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
377 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
378 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
379 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
380 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
382 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
383 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
384 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
386 o Documentation (manpage):
387 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
388 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
389 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
392 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
393 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
394 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
395 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
396 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
397 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
399 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
400 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
401 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
402 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
403 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
404 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
405 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
406 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
408 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
409 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
410 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
412 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
413 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
414 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
415 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
417 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
418 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
419 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
420 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
422 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
423 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
424 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
425 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
426 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
427 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
430 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
431 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
432 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
434 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
435 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
436 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
437 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
438 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
439 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
440 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
443 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
444 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
447 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
448 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
449 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
450 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
451 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
452 current version of 0.4.1.x.
454 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
455 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
456 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
457 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
458 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
459 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
460 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
461 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
463 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
464 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
465 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
467 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
468 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
469 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
470 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
471 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
473 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
474 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
475 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
477 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
478 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
479 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
480 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
481 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
482 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
483 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
486 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
487 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
490 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
491 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
492 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
493 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
494 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
495 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
496 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
497 write better code in the future.
499 o New system requirements:
500 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
501 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
502 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
504 o Major features (build system):
505 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
506 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
507 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
508 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
509 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
511 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
512 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
513 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
514 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
515 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
517 o Major features (onion service, controller):
518 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
519 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
520 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
521 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
523 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
524 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
525 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
526 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
528 o Major features (proxy):
529 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
530 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
531 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
532 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
533 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
534 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
536 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
537 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
538 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
539 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
540 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
541 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
542 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
543 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
545 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
546 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
547 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
549 o Major bugfixes (networking):
550 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
551 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
552 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
554 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
555 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
556 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
557 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
558 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
559 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
561 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
562 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
563 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
565 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
566 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
567 message. Closes ticket 31371.
569 o Minor features (configuration validation):
570 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
571 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
572 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
575 o Minor features (configuration):
576 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
577 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
579 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
580 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
581 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
582 Implements ticket 32404.
584 o Minor features (controller):
585 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
586 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
587 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
589 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
590 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
591 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
592 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
594 o Minor features (defense in depth):
595 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
596 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
599 o Minor features (developer tooling):
600 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
601 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
604 o Minor features (developer tools):
605 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
606 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
607 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
608 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
609 target. Closes ticket 31919.
610 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
611 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
612 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
614 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
615 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
616 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
617 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
619 o Minor features (Doxygen):
620 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
621 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
622 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
624 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
625 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
626 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
627 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
628 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
629 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
630 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
631 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
633 o Minor features (git scripts):
634 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
635 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
636 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
637 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
638 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
639 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
640 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
641 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
642 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
643 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
645 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
646 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
647 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
648 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
650 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
651 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
652 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
653 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
654 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
655 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
657 o Minor features (portability, android):
658 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
659 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
660 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
662 o Minor features (relay modularity):
663 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
664 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
665 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
666 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
667 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
668 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
669 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
671 o Minor features (relay):
672 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
673 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
675 o Minor features (release tools):
676 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
679 o Minor features (testing):
680 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
681 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
682 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
683 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
684 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
685 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
688 o Minor features (tests, Android):
689 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
690 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
691 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
693 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
694 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
695 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
697 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
698 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
699 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
702 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
703 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
704 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
706 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
707 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
708 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
709 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
710 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
711 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
712 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
713 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
714 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
715 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
716 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
717 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
718 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
719 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
720 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
723 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
724 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
727 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
728 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
729 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
730 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
732 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
733 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
734 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
736 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
737 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
738 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
740 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
741 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
742 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
744 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
745 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
746 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
747 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
748 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
751 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
752 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
754 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
757 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
758 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
759 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
760 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
763 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
764 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
765 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
766 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
769 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
770 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
771 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
772 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
775 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
776 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
777 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
778 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
779 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
780 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
782 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
783 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
784 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
785 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
786 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
788 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
789 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
790 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
792 o Minor bugfixes (test):
793 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
794 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
795 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
798 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
799 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
800 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
801 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
802 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
803 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
804 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
805 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
808 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
809 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
810 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
811 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
812 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
813 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
815 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
816 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
817 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
819 o Deprecated features:
820 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
821 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
822 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
826 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
827 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
828 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
829 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
830 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
831 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
832 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
833 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
835 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
836 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
839 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
840 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
841 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
842 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
843 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
844 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
846 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
847 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
848 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
849 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
850 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
853 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
854 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
856 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
857 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
858 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
859 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
860 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
861 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
862 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
864 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
866 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
867 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
868 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
870 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
871 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
872 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
874 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
875 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
876 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
877 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
878 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
879 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
880 Solves part of ticket 32339.
881 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
882 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
883 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
884 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
885 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
886 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
887 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
888 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
889 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
890 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
892 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
893 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
895 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
896 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
897 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
899 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
900 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
901 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
902 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
903 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
904 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
906 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
907 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
909 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
911 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
913 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
914 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
915 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
916 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
918 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
919 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
920 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
921 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
922 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
925 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
926 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
928 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
931 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
932 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
933 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
934 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
935 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
936 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
937 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
938 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
940 o Documentation (manpage):
941 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
943 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
945 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
946 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
947 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
949 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
950 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
951 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
953 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
954 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
957 o Testing (continuous integration):
958 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
961 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
962 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
963 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
964 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
965 bugs present in previous series.
967 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
968 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
969 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
970 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
972 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
973 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
974 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
975 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
977 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
978 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
980 o Minor features (geoip):
981 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
982 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
985 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
986 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
987 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
991 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
992 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
993 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
994 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
996 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
997 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
998 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
999 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1001 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1002 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1003 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1004 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1006 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1007 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1008 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1009 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1010 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1011 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1012 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1013 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1015 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1016 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1017 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1018 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1019 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1021 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1022 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1023 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1024 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1025 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1028 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1029 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1030 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1031 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1033 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1035 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1037 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1038 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1039 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1041 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1042 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1043 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1044 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1045 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1046 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1048 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1049 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1050 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1051 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1053 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1054 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1055 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1056 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1057 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1058 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1059 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1060 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
1061 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
1062 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
1065 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1066 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1067 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1068 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1069 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1070 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1071 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1072 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1073 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1075 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1076 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1077 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1078 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1080 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1081 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1082 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1083 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1084 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1087 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1088 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1089 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1091 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1092 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1093 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1095 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1096 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1097 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1099 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1100 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1101 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1102 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1104 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1105 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1106 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1107 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1108 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1111 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1112 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1114 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1115 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1116 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1119 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1120 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1121 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1123 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1124 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1125 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1126 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1128 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1129 Closes ticket 31859.
1130 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1131 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1133 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1134 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1135 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1136 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1137 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1138 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1139 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1140 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1141 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1142 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1144 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1145 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1146 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1147 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1148 Closes ticket 32500.
1151 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
1152 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
1153 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
1154 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
1155 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1157 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
1158 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
1159 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
1160 support until 1 Feb 2022.
1162 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1163 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1166 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1167 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1168 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1169 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1170 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1171 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1172 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1173 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1174 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1175 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1176 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1178 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1179 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1180 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1181 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1182 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1183 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1185 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1186 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1187 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1188 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1189 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1192 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1193 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1194 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1195 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1196 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1198 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1199 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1200 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1201 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1204 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1205 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1206 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1207 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1208 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1209 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1210 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1211 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1213 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1214 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1215 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1216 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1217 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1219 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1220 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1221 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1222 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1223 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1226 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1227 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1228 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1230 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1231 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1232 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1235 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1236 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1237 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1239 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1240 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1241 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1242 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1244 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1245 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1246 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1247 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1248 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1250 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1251 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1252 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1254 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1255 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1256 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1259 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1260 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1261 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1263 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1264 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1265 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1267 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1268 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1269 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1272 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1273 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1276 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1277 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1278 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1279 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1280 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1281 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1283 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1284 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1285 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1286 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1287 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1289 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1290 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1291 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1294 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1295 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1296 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1298 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1299 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1300 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1301 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1304 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1305 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1306 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1308 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1309 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1310 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1311 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1313 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1314 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1315 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1316 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1319 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1320 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1321 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1322 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1323 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1324 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1326 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1327 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1328 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1329 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1331 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1332 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1333 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1334 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1336 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1337 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1338 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1341 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1342 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1343 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1344 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1345 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1346 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1347 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1349 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1350 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1351 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1352 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1355 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1356 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1357 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1358 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1359 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1361 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1362 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1363 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1364 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1365 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1367 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1368 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1369 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1372 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1373 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1374 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1375 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1376 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1378 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1379 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1380 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1381 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1383 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1384 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1385 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1386 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1387 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1390 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1391 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1392 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1395 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1396 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1397 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1398 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1400 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1401 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
1402 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
1403 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
1405 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1406 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1407 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1408 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1410 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1411 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1412 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1413 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1416 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1417 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1418 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1419 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1420 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1421 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1424 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1425 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1426 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1428 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1429 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1430 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1432 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1433 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1434 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1435 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1437 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1438 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1439 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1442 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1443 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1444 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1445 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1447 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1448 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1449 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1452 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1453 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1454 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1455 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1456 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1457 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1458 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1459 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1460 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1461 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1463 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1464 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1465 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1466 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1468 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1469 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1470 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1471 Resolves issue 29702.
1473 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1474 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1476 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1477 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1478 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1479 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1482 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1483 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1484 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1485 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1487 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1488 Closes ticket 31859.
1489 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1490 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1492 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1493 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1494 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1495 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1496 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1497 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1498 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1499 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1500 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1501 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1503 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1504 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1505 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1506 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1507 Closes ticket 32500.
1509 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
1510 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
1511 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
1514 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1515 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1518 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1519 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1520 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1521 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1522 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1523 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1524 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1525 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1526 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1527 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1528 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1530 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1531 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1532 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1533 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1534 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1535 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1537 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1538 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
1539 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
1540 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
1541 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
1542 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1544 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1545 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1546 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1547 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1548 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1551 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1552 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1553 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1554 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1555 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1557 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1558 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1559 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1560 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1563 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1564 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1565 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1566 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1567 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1569 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1570 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1571 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1572 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1573 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1576 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1577 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
1578 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
1579 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
1580 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
1581 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
1582 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
1583 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1585 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1586 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
1587 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
1588 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
1589 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
1592 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1593 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1594 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1596 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1597 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
1598 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
1601 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1602 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
1603 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
1604 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
1606 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1607 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1608 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1611 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1612 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1613 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1615 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1616 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1617 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1618 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1620 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1621 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1622 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1623 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1624 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1626 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1628 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1630 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1631 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
1632 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
1633 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
1635 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1636 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1637 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1640 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1641 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
1642 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
1643 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
1644 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
1645 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
1646 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
1647 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
1648 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
1649 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
1650 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
1651 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
1652 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
1655 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1656 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
1657 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
1658 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
1659 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
1661 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
1662 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
1663 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1665 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1666 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1667 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1669 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1670 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1671 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1673 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1674 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
1675 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
1678 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1679 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1680 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1682 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1683 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1684 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1685 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1686 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1687 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1689 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1690 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1691 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1692 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1693 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1696 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1697 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1700 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1701 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1702 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1705 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1706 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1709 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1710 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1711 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1713 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1714 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1715 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1716 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1718 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1719 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1720 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1721 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1723 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1724 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1725 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1726 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1728 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1729 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1730 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1731 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1732 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1733 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1734 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1736 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1737 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1738 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1739 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1741 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1742 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1743 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1744 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1746 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1747 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1748 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1751 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1752 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1753 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1754 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1755 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1756 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1757 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1759 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1760 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1761 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1762 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1765 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1766 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1767 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1768 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1769 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1771 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1772 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1773 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1775 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1776 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
1777 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
1778 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
1779 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1780 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
1781 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
1782 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
1783 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1784 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
1785 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1787 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1788 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1789 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1790 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1791 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1793 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1794 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1795 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1798 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1799 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1800 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1801 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1802 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1804 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1805 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1806 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1807 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1809 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1810 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1811 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1812 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1813 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1816 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1817 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1818 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1821 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1822 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1823 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1824 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1826 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1827 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
1828 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
1829 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1831 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1832 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
1833 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1835 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1836 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1837 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1838 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1841 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1842 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1843 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1846 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1847 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1848 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1849 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1850 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1851 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1854 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1855 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1856 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1857 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1859 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1860 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
1861 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1863 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1864 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1865 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1868 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
1869 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
1870 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
1871 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
1872 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
1873 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
1875 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1876 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
1877 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
1880 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1881 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
1882 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
1883 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
1884 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
1885 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
1886 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
1887 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1890 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
1891 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
1892 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1893 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
1894 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
1897 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1898 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1899 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1900 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1901 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1903 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
1904 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
1905 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
1906 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
1907 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
1908 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
1909 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
1910 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1912 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1913 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1914 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1917 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1918 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1919 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1920 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1921 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1922 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1923 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1924 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1925 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1926 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1928 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1929 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
1930 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
1931 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
1932 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
1933 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1935 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1936 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1937 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1938 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1940 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1941 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1942 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1943 Resolves issue 29702.
1945 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1946 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1948 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1949 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1950 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1951 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1954 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1955 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1956 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1957 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1959 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1960 Closes ticket 31859.
1961 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1962 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1964 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1965 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1966 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1967 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1968 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1969 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1970 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1971 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1972 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1973 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1975 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1976 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1977 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1978 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1979 Closes ticket 32500.
1981 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
1982 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1983 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
1984 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
1986 o Minor features (build system):
1987 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
1988 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
1990 o Minor features (geoip):
1991 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1992 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
1994 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
1995 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1996 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1997 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1998 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1999 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2001 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2002 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2003 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2005 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2006 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
2007 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2009 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
2010 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2011 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2012 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2013 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2015 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2016 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
2017 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
2018 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
2019 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2021 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
2022 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
2023 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2024 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
2025 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2027 o Testing (continuous integration):
2028 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2029 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2030 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2031 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2032 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2033 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2034 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2035 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2036 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2039 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
2040 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2041 from earlier versions of Tor.
2043 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2044 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2045 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2046 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2047 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2048 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2049 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2050 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2052 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2053 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2054 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2055 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2056 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2059 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2060 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2061 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2062 Closes ticket 29669.
2064 o Minor features (testing):
2065 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2066 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2067 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2068 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2070 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2071 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2072 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2073 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2075 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2076 Closes ticket 31859.
2077 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2078 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2080 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2081 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2082 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2083 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2085 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2086 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2087 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2088 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2089 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2091 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2092 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2093 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2094 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2096 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2097 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2098 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2100 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2101 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2102 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2103 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2104 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2107 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2108 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2109 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2111 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2112 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2113 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2116 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2117 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2119 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2120 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2121 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2122 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2125 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2126 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2129 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2130 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
2131 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2132 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
2133 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
2135 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2136 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2137 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2138 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2141 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2142 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2143 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2144 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2145 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2146 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2149 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
2150 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2151 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
2152 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
2154 o Major features (directory authorities):
2155 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2156 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2157 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2159 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2160 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2161 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2162 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2164 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2165 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2166 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2167 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2168 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2170 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2171 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2172 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2173 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2174 Closes ticket 31779.
2176 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2177 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2178 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2179 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2181 o Minor features (geoip):
2182 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2183 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
2185 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2186 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2187 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2188 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2189 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2190 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2191 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2193 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2194 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2195 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2198 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2199 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2200 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2203 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
2204 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
2205 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2208 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2209 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2210 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2212 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2213 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2214 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2215 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2216 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2217 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2218 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2219 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2220 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2221 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2222 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2224 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2225 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2226 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2227 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2229 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2230 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2231 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2234 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2235 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2236 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2238 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2239 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2240 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2241 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2243 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2244 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2245 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2247 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2248 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2249 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2250 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2251 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2252 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2253 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2255 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2259 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2260 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2262 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2263 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2264 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2265 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2266 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2267 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2270 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
2271 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2272 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
2273 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
2276 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2277 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2278 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2279 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2280 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2281 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2282 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2283 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2284 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2286 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2287 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2288 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2291 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2292 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2293 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2295 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2296 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2297 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2298 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2299 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2301 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2302 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2303 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2305 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2306 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2307 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
2308 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2310 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2311 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2312 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2313 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2316 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2317 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2318 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2319 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2320 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2322 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2323 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2324 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2327 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2328 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2329 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2331 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2332 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2333 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2334 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2335 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2336 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2338 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2339 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2340 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2341 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2342 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2343 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2344 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2345 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2346 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2347 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2349 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2350 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2351 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2352 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2355 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
2356 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
2357 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
2358 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
2359 Tor's stability and ease of development.
2361 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2362 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2363 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2364 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2365 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2366 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2369 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2370 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2371 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2372 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2373 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2374 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2377 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2378 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2379 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2380 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2381 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2382 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2383 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2384 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2385 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2387 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2388 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2389 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2390 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2391 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2392 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2393 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2394 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2395 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2396 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2397 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2398 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2399 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2400 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2401 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2403 o Minor features (build system):
2404 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2405 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2406 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2408 o Minor features (compilation):
2409 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2410 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2411 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2413 o Minor features (configuration):
2414 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2415 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2416 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2417 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2419 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2420 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2421 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2422 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2424 o Minor features (debugging):
2425 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2426 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2427 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2428 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2430 o Minor features (git hooks):
2431 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2432 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2433 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2434 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2435 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2437 o Minor features (git scripts):
2438 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2439 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2440 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2441 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2442 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2443 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2444 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2445 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2446 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2447 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2448 Closes ticket 31314.
2449 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2450 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2451 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2452 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2453 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2454 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2455 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2456 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2457 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2459 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2460 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2461 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2464 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2465 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2466 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2468 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2469 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2470 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2472 o Minor features (onion service):
2473 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2474 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2475 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2476 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2478 o Minor features (stem tests):
2479 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2480 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2483 o Minor features (testing):
2484 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2485 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2486 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2487 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2488 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2489 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2490 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2491 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2492 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2493 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2494 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2496 o Minor features (token bucket):
2497 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2498 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2500 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2501 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2502 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2503 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2504 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2505 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2506 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2507 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2510 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2511 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2512 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2514 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2515 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2516 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2517 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2518 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2519 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2521 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2522 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2523 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2524 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2525 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2527 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2528 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2529 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2531 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2532 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2533 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2534 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2536 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2537 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2538 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2539 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2540 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2541 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2542 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2543 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2544 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2545 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2547 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2548 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2549 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2552 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2553 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2554 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2556 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2557 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2558 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2559 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2560 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2561 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2562 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2563 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2564 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2565 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2568 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2569 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2570 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2571 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2574 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2575 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2576 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2577 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2579 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2580 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2581 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2582 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2583 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2584 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2585 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2586 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2587 Closes ticket 31678.
2589 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2590 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2591 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2592 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2593 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2595 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2596 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2597 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2598 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2599 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2600 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2601 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2602 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2603 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2606 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2607 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2608 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2610 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2611 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2612 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2614 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2615 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2616 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2619 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2620 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2621 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2622 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2623 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2624 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2626 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2627 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2628 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2629 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2632 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2633 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2634 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2635 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2636 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2638 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2639 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2640 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2641 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2642 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2643 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2645 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2646 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2647 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2648 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2650 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2651 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2652 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2653 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2654 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2656 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2657 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2658 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2659 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2661 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2662 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2663 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2664 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2665 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2667 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2668 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2669 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2670 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2671 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2674 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2675 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2676 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2679 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2680 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2681 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2682 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2683 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2684 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2686 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2687 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2688 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2689 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2690 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2691 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2692 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2693 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2694 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2695 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2698 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2699 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2700 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2701 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2702 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2703 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2704 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2707 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2708 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2709 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2710 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2711 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2712 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2714 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2718 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2719 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2720 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2721 Closes ticket 30967.
2723 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2724 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2725 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2726 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2727 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2728 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2729 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2730 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2731 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2732 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2733 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2734 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2735 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2736 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2737 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2738 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2740 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2741 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2742 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2743 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2744 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2745 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2746 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2747 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2748 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2749 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2751 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2752 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2753 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2755 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2756 Closes ticket 30806.
2757 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2758 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2761 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2762 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2763 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2765 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2766 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2767 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2770 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
2771 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
2772 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
2773 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
2774 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
2775 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
2776 bugfixes on earlier versions.
2778 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
2779 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
2780 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2781 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2783 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2784 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2786 o Directory authority changes:
2787 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2790 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
2791 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
2792 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
2793 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
2795 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
2796 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
2797 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
2798 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
2799 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
2800 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
2801 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2803 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2804 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
2805 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
2806 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2808 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
2809 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2810 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2811 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2812 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2814 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
2815 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
2816 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
2817 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
2818 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2819 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
2822 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2823 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2826 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2827 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2828 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2830 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
2831 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
2832 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
2835 o Testing (continuous integration):
2836 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2837 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2838 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2842 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
2843 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
2844 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
2845 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
2847 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2848 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2849 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2850 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2851 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2852 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2854 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2855 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2856 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2858 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2859 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2860 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2861 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2862 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2864 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2865 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2866 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2868 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
2869 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
2870 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2872 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
2873 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2874 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2875 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2877 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2878 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
2879 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
2882 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2883 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
2884 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
2887 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2888 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
2889 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
2893 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
2894 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
2895 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
2897 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
2898 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2899 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2900 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2901 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2904 o Minor features (geoip):
2905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2906 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
2908 o Minor features (logging):
2909 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
2910 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
2911 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
2912 Closes ticket 30686.
2914 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
2915 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2916 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2919 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2920 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2921 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2922 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2923 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2924 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2926 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2927 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2928 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2929 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2931 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2932 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
2933 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
2934 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
2935 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2938 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
2939 Closes ticket 30630.
2942 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
2943 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
2944 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
2945 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
2946 SENDME implementation.
2948 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2949 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2950 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2951 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2952 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2953 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2954 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2955 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2956 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2957 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2958 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2960 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
2961 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
2962 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
2963 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
2964 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
2965 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2967 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
2968 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
2969 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
2970 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
2971 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2974 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
2975 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
2976 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
2977 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
2978 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
2979 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
2982 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2983 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
2984 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
2987 o Minor features (maintenance):
2988 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
2989 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
2990 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
2992 o Minor features (testing):
2993 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
2994 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
2995 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
2996 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
2998 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
2999 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
3000 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
3002 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
3003 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3004 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3005 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3007 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3008 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
3009 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
3011 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
3012 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
3015 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3016 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
3017 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
3020 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3021 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3022 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3025 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
3026 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3027 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3028 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3030 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
3031 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3032 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3033 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3036 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3037 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3038 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3039 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3040 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3041 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3044 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
3045 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
3046 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
3047 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
3048 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
3049 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3051 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
3052 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
3053 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
3054 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
3057 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3058 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3059 Resolves issue 29702.
3062 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
3063 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
3064 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
3065 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
3066 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
3067 performance in several areas.
3069 o Major features (circuit padding):
3070 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3071 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3072 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3073 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3074 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3075 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3076 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3077 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3078 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3080 o Major features (code organization):
3081 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3082 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3083 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3084 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3087 o Major features (controller protocol):
3088 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3089 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3090 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3091 Closes ticket 30091.
3093 o Major features (flow control):
3094 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3095 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3096 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3097 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3098 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3099 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3100 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3102 o Major features (performance):
3103 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3104 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3105 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3107 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3108 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3109 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3110 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3111 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3112 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3113 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3114 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3115 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3117 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3118 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3119 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3120 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3121 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3123 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3124 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3125 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3126 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3129 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3130 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
3132 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
3133 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
3134 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
3135 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
3136 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3137 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
3138 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
3140 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
3141 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3142 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3144 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3145 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3146 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3148 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3150 o Minor features (controller):
3151 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
3152 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
3153 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3155 o Minor features (debugging):
3156 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
3157 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
3158 can use format strings to include information for trouble
3159 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
3161 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3162 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
3163 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
3164 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
3165 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
3166 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
3167 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
3168 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
3169 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
3170 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
3172 o Minor features (developer tools):
3173 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
3174 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
3175 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
3176 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
3177 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
3179 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
3180 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
3182 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
3183 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
3185 o Minor features (geoip):
3186 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3187 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
3189 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
3190 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
3191 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
3193 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
3194 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
3195 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
3196 addresses. Implements 26992.
3198 o Minor features (modularity):
3199 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
3200 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
3202 o Minor features (performance):
3203 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
3204 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
3205 Closes ticket 28837.
3207 o Minor features (testing):
3208 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
3209 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
3210 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
3211 Implements ticket 29732.
3212 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
3213 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
3215 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
3216 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
3218 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
3219 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
3220 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
3221 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
3222 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3223 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3225 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
3226 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
3227 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
3228 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3230 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3231 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
3232 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3233 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
3234 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
3235 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
3236 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3237 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
3238 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
3239 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3240 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
3241 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3242 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3243 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
3244 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3245 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
3246 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
3247 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3249 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
3250 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3251 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3252 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3254 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3255 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
3256 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
3257 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
3258 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3260 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
3261 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
3262 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3263 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3265 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3266 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
3267 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3268 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
3269 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
3270 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
3272 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
3273 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3276 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3277 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3278 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3279 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3280 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
3281 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
3284 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
3285 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3286 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3289 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3290 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3291 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3292 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3293 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
3294 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
3295 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
3296 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
3298 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
3299 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
3300 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3301 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
3302 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
3303 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
3304 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3306 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3307 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3308 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3309 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3310 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3311 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3313 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3314 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3315 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3316 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3317 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3319 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3320 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3321 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3323 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3324 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3325 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3328 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3329 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3330 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3331 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3333 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3334 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3335 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3336 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3337 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3340 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3341 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3342 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3343 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3345 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3346 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3347 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3348 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3349 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3350 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3351 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3352 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3353 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3354 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3355 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3356 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3357 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3359 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3360 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3361 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3362 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3363 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3365 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3366 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3367 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3368 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3369 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
3370 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
3371 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
3372 string to directory connection with or without compression.
3373 Resolves issue 28816.
3374 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
3375 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
3376 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
3377 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
3378 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
3379 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
3380 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
3381 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
3382 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
3383 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
3384 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
3385 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
3386 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
3387 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
3388 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
3389 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
3390 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3391 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
3392 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3393 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
3394 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
3395 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
3396 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
3397 Closes ticket 29894.
3398 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
3399 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
3400 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
3401 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
3404 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
3405 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
3409 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
3410 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
3411 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
3412 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
3415 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3416 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
3417 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
3418 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
3419 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
3420 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
3421 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
3422 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
3423 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
3424 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
3425 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
3428 o Testing (chutney):
3429 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
3430 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
3431 Closes ticket 27251.
3434 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
3435 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
3436 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
3437 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
3438 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
3439 long-term maintainability.
3441 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
3442 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
3443 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3444 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3446 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3447 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3449 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3450 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3451 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3452 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3454 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3455 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
3456 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
3459 o Minor features (testing):
3460 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
3461 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
3464 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3465 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3466 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
3469 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
3470 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
3471 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3473 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3474 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
3475 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
3477 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
3478 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
3479 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3482 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
3483 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
3484 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
3485 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
3487 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
3488 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3489 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3490 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3491 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3492 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3494 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
3495 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3496 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3497 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3498 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3500 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
3501 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
3502 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
3505 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3506 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
3507 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
3508 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
3509 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
3512 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3513 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3514 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3517 o Minor features (dormant mode):
3518 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
3519 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
3520 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
3521 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
3522 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
3523 background. Closes ticket 29357.
3525 o Minor features (geoip):
3526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3527 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
3529 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
3530 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3531 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3532 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3534 o Minor bugfixes (security):
3535 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3536 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3537 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3538 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3539 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3540 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3541 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3542 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3544 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3545 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3546 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3547 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3549 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
3550 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3551 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3552 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3553 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3555 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3556 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3557 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3559 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
3560 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
3561 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
3564 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3565 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3566 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3569 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
3570 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
3571 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3573 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3574 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
3575 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3577 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3578 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
3579 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
3580 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
3581 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
3582 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
3585 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3586 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
3587 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
3588 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
3589 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3591 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3592 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3593 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3594 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3595 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3596 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3599 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
3600 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3601 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3602 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3603 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3604 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3605 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3606 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3608 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3609 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
3610 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
3611 Resolves issue 28816.
3612 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
3613 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
3616 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
3617 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
3620 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
3621 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
3622 bugs from earlier versions.
3624 o Minor features (address selection):
3625 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3626 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3627 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3628 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3629 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3630 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3631 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3633 o Minor features (geoip):
3634 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3635 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
3638 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3639 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
3640 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3642 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3643 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3644 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3645 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3646 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3647 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3648 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3649 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3650 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3651 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3652 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3654 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3655 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3656 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3657 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3659 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
3660 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3661 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3664 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
3665 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
3668 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
3669 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
3670 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3672 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
3673 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3674 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3675 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3676 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3677 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3678 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3680 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3681 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3682 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3685 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3686 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3687 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3688 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3689 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3690 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3691 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3692 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3693 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
3694 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3696 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
3697 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3698 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3699 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3700 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3701 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3704 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
3705 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
3706 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
3709 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3710 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3711 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3713 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3714 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3715 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3716 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3717 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3718 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3719 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3720 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3722 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3723 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3724 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3725 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3726 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3728 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3729 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3730 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3731 Patches from "Mangix".
3733 o Minor features (geoip):
3734 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3735 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3737 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3738 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3741 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3742 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3743 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3744 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3745 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3746 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3748 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3749 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3750 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3751 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3754 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3755 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3756 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3757 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3759 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3760 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3761 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3765 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3766 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3767 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3769 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3770 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3771 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3772 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3774 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3775 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3776 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3777 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3778 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3779 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3781 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3782 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3783 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3784 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3785 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3787 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3788 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3789 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3790 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3791 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3793 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3794 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3795 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3797 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3798 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3799 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3801 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3802 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3803 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3804 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3806 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3807 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3808 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3810 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3811 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3812 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3813 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3814 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3817 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3818 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3819 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3820 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3821 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3824 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
3825 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
3826 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
3827 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
3828 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3830 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3831 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3832 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3833 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3834 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3835 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3836 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3837 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3839 o Minor features (geoip):
3840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3841 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3843 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3844 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3845 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3846 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3848 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3849 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3850 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3851 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3852 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3855 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
3856 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3857 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3858 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3860 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
3861 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
3862 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
3863 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
3865 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3866 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3867 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3868 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3869 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3870 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3871 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3872 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3874 o Minor features (geoip):
3875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3876 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3878 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3879 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3880 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3881 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3883 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3884 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3885 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3886 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3887 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3890 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
3891 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
3892 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
3893 backward compatibility.
3895 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3896 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3897 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3899 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3900 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3901 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3902 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3903 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3904 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3905 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3906 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3908 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3909 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3910 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3911 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3912 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3914 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
3915 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
3916 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
3917 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
3918 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
3919 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
3920 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3922 o Minor features (compilation):
3923 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3924 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3925 Patches from "Mangix".
3927 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3928 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
3929 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
3930 release. Closes ticket 27761.
3931 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
3932 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
3933 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
3936 o Minor features (directory authority):
3937 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
3938 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
3939 Closes ticket 26698.
3941 o Minor features (geoip):
3942 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3943 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3945 o Minor features (testing):
3946 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3949 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
3950 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3951 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3952 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3954 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3955 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
3956 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3957 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3958 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3960 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3961 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3962 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3963 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3965 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
3966 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
3967 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3970 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3971 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3972 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3973 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3974 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3975 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3977 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3978 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3979 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3980 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3981 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3983 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3984 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3985 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3987 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3988 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3989 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3991 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3992 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3993 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3994 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3996 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
3997 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
3998 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
3999 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4000 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4003 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4004 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4005 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4006 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4007 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4008 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4009 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4010 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4011 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4012 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4013 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4017 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
4018 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
4019 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
4022 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
4025 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
4026 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
4027 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
4028 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
4029 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
4030 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
4033 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4034 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4035 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4036 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4037 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4038 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4040 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4041 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4043 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4044 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4047 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4048 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4049 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4050 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4051 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4052 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4053 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4054 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4055 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4058 o Major features (circuit padding):
4059 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4060 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4061 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4062 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4063 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4064 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4065 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4066 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4069 o Major features (refactoring):
4070 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4071 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4072 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4073 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4076 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4077 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4078 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4079 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4080 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4083 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4084 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4087 o Minor features (controller):
4088 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4089 Implements ticket 28843.
4091 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4092 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4093 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4094 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4096 o Minor features (directory authority):
4097 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4098 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4099 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4100 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4103 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4104 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4105 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4106 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4107 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4108 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4109 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4111 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4112 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4113 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4115 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4116 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4117 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4118 Closes ticket 28518.
4120 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4121 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4122 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4123 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4125 o Minor features (IPv6):
4126 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4127 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4128 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4129 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4130 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4131 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4132 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4133 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4134 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4135 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4137 o Minor features (log messages):
4138 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4139 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4142 o Minor features (memory usage):
4143 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4144 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4145 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4146 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4147 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4149 o Minor features (parsing):
4150 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4151 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4152 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4154 o Minor features (performance):
4155 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4156 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4157 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4158 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4160 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4161 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4162 Closes ticket 28852.
4163 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4164 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4165 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4166 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4167 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4168 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4170 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4171 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4172 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4173 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4174 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4176 o Minor features (process management):
4177 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4178 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4179 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4180 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4181 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4183 o Minor features (relay):
4184 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4185 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4186 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4188 o Minor features (required protocols):
4189 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4190 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4191 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4192 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4193 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4194 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4195 297; closes ticket 27735.
4197 o Minor features (testing):
4198 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4199 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4201 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4202 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4203 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4204 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4205 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4208 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4209 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4210 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4211 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4213 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4214 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4215 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4217 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4218 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4219 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4220 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4222 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4223 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4224 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4225 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4226 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4228 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4229 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4230 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4231 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4232 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4233 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4234 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4236 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4237 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4238 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4239 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4242 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4243 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4244 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4245 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4246 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4247 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4249 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4250 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4251 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4252 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4254 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4255 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4256 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4257 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4258 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4259 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4261 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4262 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4263 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4264 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4266 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4267 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4268 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4269 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4270 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4273 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4274 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4275 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4276 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4278 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4279 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4280 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4281 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4282 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4284 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4285 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
4286 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
4287 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
4289 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
4290 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
4291 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
4292 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
4293 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
4294 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
4295 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
4296 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
4300 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
4301 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
4302 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
4303 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
4305 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4308 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4309 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4310 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4311 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4312 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4313 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4314 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4317 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4319 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4320 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4322 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4323 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4324 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4327 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4328 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4330 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4331 Resolves ticket 28006.
4332 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4333 Resolves ticket 28012.
4334 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4335 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4336 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4337 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4341 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4342 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4343 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4344 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4345 to this version, or to a later series.
4347 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4348 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4349 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4350 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4351 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4352 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4354 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4355 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4356 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4357 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4358 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4361 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4362 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4363 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4364 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4366 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4367 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4368 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4369 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4370 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4371 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4372 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4373 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4375 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4376 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4377 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4378 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4380 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4381 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4382 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4383 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4384 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4386 o Minor features (geoip):
4387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4388 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4390 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4391 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4392 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4393 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4394 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4395 Closes ticket 28973.
4397 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4398 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4399 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4400 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4402 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4403 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4404 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4407 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4408 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4409 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4411 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4412 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4413 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4414 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4416 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4417 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4418 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4419 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4421 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4422 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4423 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4424 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4425 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4426 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4429 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4430 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4431 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4434 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4435 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4436 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4437 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4438 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4441 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4442 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4443 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4444 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4446 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4447 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4448 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4449 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4450 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4451 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4453 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4454 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
4455 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
4458 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4459 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4460 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4462 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4463 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4464 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4466 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4467 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4468 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4471 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4472 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4473 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4474 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4475 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4476 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4477 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4478 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4480 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4481 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4482 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4483 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4485 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4486 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4487 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4488 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4489 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4490 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4491 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4492 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4493 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4494 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4496 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4497 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4498 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4499 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4500 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4501 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4503 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4504 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4505 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4506 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4507 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4509 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4510 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4511 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4514 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
4515 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4516 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
4517 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
4520 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
4521 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
4522 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
4525 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4526 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4527 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4528 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4529 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4532 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4533 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4534 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4535 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4536 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4537 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4538 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4540 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4541 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4542 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4545 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4546 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4547 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4548 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4549 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4552 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4553 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4554 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4555 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4556 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4558 o Minor features (geoip):
4559 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4560 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4562 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4563 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4564 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4565 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4566 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4567 Closes ticket 28973.
4569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4570 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4571 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4572 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4574 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4575 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4576 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4577 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4578 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4581 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4582 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4583 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4584 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4586 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4587 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4588 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4590 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4591 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4592 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4593 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4595 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4596 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4597 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4598 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4599 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4600 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4603 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4604 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4605 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4607 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4608 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4609 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4610 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4611 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4613 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4614 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4615 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4616 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4617 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4618 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4620 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4621 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4622 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4623 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4625 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4626 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4627 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4630 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
4631 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
4632 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
4633 affecting directory caches.
4635 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
4636 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
4637 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
4638 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
4639 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
4640 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
4641 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
4642 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
4644 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
4645 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
4646 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
4647 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
4648 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
4649 so it will recognize them.
4651 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
4652 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
4653 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
4654 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
4655 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
4656 with the latest stable release.)
4658 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
4659 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4661 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
4662 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4663 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4664 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4665 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4666 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4667 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4669 o Minor features (compilation):
4670 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
4671 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
4673 o Minor features (geoip):
4674 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4675 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4677 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
4678 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4679 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4680 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4681 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4682 Closes ticket 28973.
4684 o Minor features (performance):
4685 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
4686 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
4687 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
4688 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
4689 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
4690 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
4691 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
4692 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
4693 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
4694 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
4696 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4697 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
4698 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4700 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4701 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
4702 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
4703 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
4704 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4706 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4707 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
4708 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
4709 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4710 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
4711 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
4712 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4714 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
4715 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
4716 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
4718 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4719 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
4720 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
4724 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
4725 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
4726 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
4727 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
4729 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
4730 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4731 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4734 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4735 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4736 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4737 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4738 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4740 o Minor features (geoip):
4741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4742 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4745 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
4746 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4748 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4749 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4750 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4751 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4753 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4754 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4755 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4756 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4757 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4758 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4760 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
4761 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
4762 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
4765 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4766 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
4767 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
4768 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4769 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
4770 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4771 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4773 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4774 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
4775 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
4776 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
4777 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
4778 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
4779 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
4780 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
4782 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
4783 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
4784 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
4785 reported by Keifer Bly.
4788 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
4789 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
4791 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
4792 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
4793 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
4794 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
4795 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
4796 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
4797 Closes ticket 19566.
4799 o Documentation (onion services):
4800 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
4801 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
4802 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
4803 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
4804 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
4805 process. Closes ticket 28275.
4808 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
4809 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
4810 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
4813 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
4814 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4815 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4816 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4817 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4820 o Minor features (geoip):
4821 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4822 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4824 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4825 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4826 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4827 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4829 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
4830 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4831 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4832 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4833 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4836 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4837 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4838 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4839 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4841 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4842 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4843 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4845 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4846 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
4847 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4849 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4850 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
4851 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
4854 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4855 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
4856 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
4859 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4860 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4861 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4864 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
4865 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
4866 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
4867 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
4868 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
4869 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
4870 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
4871 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
4872 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4875 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
4876 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
4877 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
4878 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
4879 acceptable long-term-support release.
4881 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
4882 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
4883 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
4884 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
4885 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
4886 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4888 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
4889 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
4890 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
4891 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
4892 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4894 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4895 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
4897 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
4898 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
4900 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
4901 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
4902 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
4904 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
4905 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4906 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4910 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
4911 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4913 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
4914 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
4915 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
4918 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4919 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
4920 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
4923 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
4924 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4925 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
4926 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4928 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4929 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
4930 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
4931 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
4934 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4935 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
4936 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
4937 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4939 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4940 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
4941 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
4942 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
4943 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
4944 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
4945 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4947 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4948 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
4949 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
4952 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
4953 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
4956 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
4957 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
4958 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
4959 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
4960 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4962 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
4963 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4964 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4965 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4966 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4967 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4969 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
4970 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4971 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4972 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4973 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4975 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4976 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
4977 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
4980 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4981 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4982 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4983 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4985 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
4986 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
4987 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
4990 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
4991 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4992 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
4993 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
4994 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
4996 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4997 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
4998 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5000 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5001 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5002 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5003 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5004 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5006 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5007 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5008 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5009 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5010 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5013 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5014 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5015 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5016 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5018 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5019 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5020 Implements ticket 27252.
5021 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5022 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5023 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5024 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5025 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5026 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5027 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5029 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5030 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5031 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5032 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5034 o Minor features (geoip):
5035 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5036 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5038 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5039 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5040 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5041 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5042 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5044 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5045 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5046 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5047 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5048 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5051 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5052 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5053 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5056 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5057 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5058 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5059 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5060 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5062 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5063 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5064 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5066 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5067 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5068 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5070 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5071 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5072 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5073 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5075 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5076 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5077 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5079 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5080 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5081 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5084 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5085 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5086 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5088 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5089 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5090 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5093 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5094 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5095 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5096 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5097 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5099 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5100 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5101 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5102 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5103 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5104 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5106 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5107 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5108 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5111 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5112 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5113 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5114 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5115 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5116 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5117 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5118 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5120 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5121 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5122 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5123 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5125 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5126 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5127 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5128 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5129 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5131 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5132 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5133 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5134 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5135 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5136 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5138 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5139 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5140 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5141 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5142 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5143 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5145 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5146 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5147 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5148 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5151 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5152 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5153 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5154 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5155 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5158 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
5159 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
5160 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
5161 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
5162 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
5163 getting closer and closer to stability.
5165 o Major features (onion services):
5166 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5167 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5168 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5169 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5170 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5172 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5173 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5174 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5176 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
5177 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
5178 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
5179 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5181 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
5182 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5183 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5184 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5185 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5187 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5188 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5189 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5190 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5191 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5194 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5195 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5196 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5197 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5198 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5199 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5202 o Minor features (geoip):
5203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5204 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5206 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5207 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5208 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5211 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5212 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
5213 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
5214 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
5215 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
5216 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
5219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
5220 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
5223 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
5224 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5225 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5226 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5227 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5229 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5230 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5231 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5232 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5233 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5234 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5237 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5238 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
5239 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5241 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5242 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
5243 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
5245 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
5246 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
5247 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5249 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5250 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
5251 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
5253 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5254 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5255 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5256 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5257 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5258 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5259 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5260 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5261 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5263 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
5264 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5265 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5268 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5269 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5270 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5271 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5273 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
5274 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5276 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5277 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
5278 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
5279 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
5280 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
5281 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
5282 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
5283 Closes ticket 27814.
5284 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
5285 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
5286 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
5287 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
5288 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
5289 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
5292 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
5293 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
5294 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
5295 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
5298 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
5299 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
5300 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
5301 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
5303 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5304 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5305 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5306 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5307 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5308 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5310 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
5311 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
5312 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
5313 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
5314 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
5317 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5318 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5319 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5320 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5321 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5323 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5324 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5325 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5326 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5327 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5330 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5331 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5332 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5333 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5334 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5336 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5337 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
5338 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
5339 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
5341 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
5342 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
5343 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
5346 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5347 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5348 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5349 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5352 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5353 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5354 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5356 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5357 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5358 Closes ticket 27799.
5361 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
5362 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
5363 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
5364 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
5365 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
5367 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5368 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5369 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5370 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5371 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5372 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5374 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5375 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5376 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5377 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5378 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5379 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5380 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5381 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5383 o Major features (bootstrap):
5384 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5385 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5386 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5387 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5389 o Major features (new code layout):
5390 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5391 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5392 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5393 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5394 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5395 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5396 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5398 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5399 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5400 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5402 o Major features (onion services v3):
5403 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5404 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5405 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5406 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5407 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5408 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5409 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5410 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5411 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5412 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5413 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5414 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5415 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5417 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5418 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5419 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5420 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5421 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5422 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5423 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5425 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5426 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5427 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5428 (if present), and restart Tor.
5430 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5431 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5432 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5433 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5436 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5437 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5438 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5439 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5441 o Minor features (admin tools):
5442 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5443 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5446 o Minor features (build):
5447 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5448 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5449 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5450 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5452 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5453 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5454 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5455 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5456 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5458 o Minor features (code layout):
5459 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5460 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5461 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5462 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5465 o Minor features (compilation):
5466 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5467 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5468 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5469 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5472 o Minor features (config):
5473 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5476 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5477 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5478 Implements ticket 27252.
5479 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5480 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5481 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5482 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5483 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5484 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5485 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5486 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5487 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5489 o Minor features (controller):
5490 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5491 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5492 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5493 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5494 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5495 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5496 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5497 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5499 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5500 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5501 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5502 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5504 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5505 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5506 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5507 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5509 o Minor features (development):
5510 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5511 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5513 o Minor features (directory authority):
5514 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5515 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5516 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5517 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5519 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5520 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5523 o Minor features (embedding API):
5524 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5525 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5526 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5527 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5528 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5529 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5532 o Minor features (geoip):
5533 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5534 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
5536 o Minor features (memory management):
5537 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5538 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5541 o Minor features (memory usage):
5542 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5543 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5544 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5546 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5547 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5548 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5550 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5551 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5552 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5553 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5555 o Minor features (testing):
5556 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5557 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5559 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5560 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5561 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5563 o Minor features (UI):
5564 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5565 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5566 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5567 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5568 Closes ticket 26703.
5570 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5571 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5572 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5573 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5575 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5576 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5577 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5578 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5579 - Use time_t for all values in
5580 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5581 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5582 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5584 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5585 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5586 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5587 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5588 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5591 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
5592 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5593 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5594 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5595 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5596 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5598 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5599 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5600 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5601 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5604 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5605 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5606 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5607 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5609 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5610 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5611 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5613 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5614 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5615 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5616 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5617 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5620 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5621 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5622 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5624 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5625 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5626 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5629 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5630 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
5631 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
5632 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
5633 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5635 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5636 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
5637 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
5638 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
5639 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5640 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
5641 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5643 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
5644 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
5645 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
5646 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
5647 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5649 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
5650 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5651 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5653 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5654 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
5655 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
5656 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
5659 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5660 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5661 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5664 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
5665 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
5666 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
5667 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
5668 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
5670 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
5671 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
5672 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
5673 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
5675 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5676 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5677 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5678 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5680 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5681 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
5682 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
5683 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
5684 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
5685 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5686 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5687 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
5688 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
5689 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5691 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
5692 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5693 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5694 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5695 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5696 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5697 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5698 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5700 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5701 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
5702 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5703 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5704 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5705 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5706 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5707 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5708 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
5709 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
5710 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5711 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
5712 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5714 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5715 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
5716 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
5717 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
5718 directory within the top-level src directory.
5719 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
5720 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
5721 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
5722 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
5723 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
5724 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
5725 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
5726 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
5727 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
5728 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
5729 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
5730 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
5731 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
5732 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
5733 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
5734 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
5735 Closes ticket 21349.
5736 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
5737 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
5738 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
5739 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
5740 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
5741 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
5742 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
5744 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
5745 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
5746 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
5749 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
5750 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
5751 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
5752 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
5753 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
5756 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
5757 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
5758 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
5759 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
5760 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
5761 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
5762 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
5763 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
5764 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
5765 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
5766 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
5767 Closes ticket 26367.
5770 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
5771 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
5773 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5774 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5775 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5776 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5778 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5779 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5781 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5782 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5783 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5784 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5786 o Minor features (geoip):
5787 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5788 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5791 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5792 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5793 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5796 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5797 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5798 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5799 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5800 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5801 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5802 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5806 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5807 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5808 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5810 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5811 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5812 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5813 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5816 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5817 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5818 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5821 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5822 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5823 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5824 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5826 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5827 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5828 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5831 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5832 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5833 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5834 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5835 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5837 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5838 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5839 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5842 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5843 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5844 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5845 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5847 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5848 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5849 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5851 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5852 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5853 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5856 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5857 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5858 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5859 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5860 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5862 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5863 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5864 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5867 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
5868 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5870 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5871 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5872 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5873 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5875 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5876 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5878 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5879 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5880 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5881 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5883 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5884 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5887 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5888 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5889 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5890 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5892 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5893 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5894 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5895 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5897 o Minor features (geoip):
5898 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5899 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5902 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5903 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5904 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5905 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5906 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5907 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5910 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5911 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5912 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5913 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5914 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5915 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5916 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5920 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5921 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5922 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5924 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5925 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5926 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5927 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5929 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5930 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5931 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5932 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5933 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5935 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5936 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5937 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5938 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5939 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5941 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5942 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5943 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5946 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5947 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5948 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5949 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5950 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5952 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5953 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5954 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5957 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5958 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5959 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5962 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5963 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5964 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5967 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5968 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5970 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
5971 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
5972 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5973 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5976 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5977 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5978 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5980 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5981 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5982 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5984 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5985 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5986 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5987 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5988 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5989 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5990 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5993 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
5994 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
5995 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
5996 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
5997 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5999 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6000 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6001 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6002 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6003 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6005 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6006 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6007 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6010 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6011 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6013 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6014 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6015 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6016 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6018 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6019 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6020 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6021 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6023 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6024 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6025 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6027 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6028 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6029 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6030 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6032 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6033 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6036 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6037 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6038 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6039 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6041 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6042 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6043 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6044 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6046 o Minor features (geoip):
6047 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6048 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6050 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6051 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6052 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6053 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6054 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6055 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6056 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6059 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6060 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6061 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6062 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6063 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6064 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6065 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6068 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6069 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6070 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6071 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6073 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6074 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6075 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6076 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6078 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6079 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6080 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6081 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6082 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6084 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6085 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6086 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6087 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6088 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6090 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6091 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6092 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6095 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6096 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6097 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6098 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6100 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6101 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6102 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6103 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6104 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6106 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6107 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6108 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6111 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6112 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6113 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6116 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6117 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6118 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6121 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6122 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6123 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6124 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6126 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6127 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6128 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6131 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6132 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6134 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6135 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6136 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6137 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6138 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6139 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6140 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6142 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6143 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6144 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6145 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6146 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6148 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6149 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6150 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6151 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6154 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6155 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6157 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6158 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6159 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6160 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6161 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6162 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6163 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6166 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6167 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6168 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6169 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6170 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6172 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6173 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6174 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6175 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6176 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6178 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6179 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6180 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6183 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6184 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6185 compilation and portability fixes.
6187 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6188 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6189 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6190 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6191 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6192 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6193 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6194 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6196 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
6197 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6199 o Minor features (compatibility):
6200 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6201 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6202 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6204 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6205 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6206 Implements ticket 27449.
6207 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6208 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6211 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6212 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6213 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6214 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6215 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6216 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6217 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6218 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6221 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6222 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
6223 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
6224 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
6225 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
6226 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6227 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6228 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6229 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6230 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6233 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6234 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6237 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
6238 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6239 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6240 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6241 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6242 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6243 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6246 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
6247 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6248 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6249 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6250 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6252 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6253 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6254 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6255 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6257 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6258 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6259 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6261 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6262 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6263 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6264 Implements ticket 27275.
6265 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6266 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6268 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6269 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6272 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6273 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6274 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6275 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6277 o Minor features (geoip):
6278 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6279 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6281 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
6282 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6283 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6284 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6286 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6287 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
6288 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
6289 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
6290 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6291 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6292 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6293 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6295 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
6296 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6297 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6298 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6300 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6301 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6302 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6303 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6304 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6306 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6307 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6308 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6311 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6312 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6313 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6316 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6317 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6319 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6320 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6321 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6322 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6323 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6324 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6325 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6327 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6328 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6329 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6330 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6331 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6333 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6334 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6335 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6336 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6337 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6339 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6340 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6341 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6342 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6343 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6345 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6346 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6347 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6350 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
6351 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6352 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6353 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6354 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6356 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
6357 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
6358 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
6359 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
6360 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
6361 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6363 o Minor features (compilation):
6364 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6365 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6367 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6368 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6369 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6370 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6371 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6372 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6374 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6375 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6376 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6377 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6379 o Minor features (controller):
6380 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6381 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6382 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6385 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6386 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6389 o Minor features (geoip):
6390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6391 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6393 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6394 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6396 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6397 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
6398 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6399 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6400 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6401 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6402 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6404 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6405 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6406 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6407 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
6408 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
6409 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6411 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6412 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6413 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6416 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6417 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6418 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6420 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6421 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6422 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6425 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6426 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
6427 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6428 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6429 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6430 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6432 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
6433 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
6434 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
6435 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6437 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6438 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6439 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6441 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6442 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
6443 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
6444 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
6445 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
6446 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
6448 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6449 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6450 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6451 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6452 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6455 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
6456 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6457 bridge relays should upgrade.
6459 o Directory authority changes:
6460 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6461 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6462 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6465 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
6466 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6467 bridge relays should upgrade.
6469 o Directory authority changes:
6470 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6471 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6472 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6475 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
6476 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6477 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6480 o Directory authority changes:
6481 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6482 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6483 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6485 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6486 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6487 Closes ticket 26343.
6489 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6490 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6491 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6492 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6493 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6495 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6496 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6497 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6499 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6500 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6501 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6502 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6504 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6505 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6506 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6508 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6509 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6510 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6511 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6512 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6513 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6515 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6516 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6517 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6518 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6520 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6521 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6522 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6525 o Minor features (geoip):
6526 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6527 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6529 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6530 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6531 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6532 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6533 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6535 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6536 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6537 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6539 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6540 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6541 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6542 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6543 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6544 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6545 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6546 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6549 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6550 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6551 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6552 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6553 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6554 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6556 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6557 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6558 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6559 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6560 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6563 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6564 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6565 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6566 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6568 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6569 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6570 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6573 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6574 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6575 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6577 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6578 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6579 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6580 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6582 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6583 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6584 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6585 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6586 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6587 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6588 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6590 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6591 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6592 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6593 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6596 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6597 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6598 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6600 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6601 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6602 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6605 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6606 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
6607 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
6610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6611 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6612 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6613 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6615 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6616 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6617 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6619 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6620 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6621 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6624 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
6625 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6626 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6629 o Directory authority changes:
6630 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6631 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6632 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6634 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6635 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6636 Closes ticket 26343.
6638 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6639 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6640 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6641 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6642 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6644 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6645 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6646 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6647 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6649 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6650 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6651 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6652 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6653 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6654 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6656 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6657 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6658 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6661 o Minor features (geoip):
6662 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6663 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6665 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6666 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6667 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6668 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6669 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6671 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6672 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6673 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6675 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6676 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6677 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6678 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6681 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6682 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6683 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6684 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6685 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6686 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6689 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6690 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6691 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6692 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6694 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6695 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6696 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6699 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6700 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6701 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6703 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6704 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6705 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6706 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6708 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6709 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6710 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6712 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6713 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6714 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6717 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
6718 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6719 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6720 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6721 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6723 o Minor features (compilation):
6724 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6725 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6728 o Minor features (geoip):
6729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6730 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6732 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6733 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6735 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6736 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6737 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6738 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6739 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6741 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6742 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6743 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6744 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6745 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6746 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6748 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6749 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6750 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6753 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6754 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6755 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6757 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6758 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6759 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6760 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6761 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6762 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6763 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6764 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6768 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
6769 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6770 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
6772 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6773 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6774 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6775 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6777 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6778 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6779 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6782 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6783 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6784 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6787 o Minor features (geoip):
6788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6789 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6791 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6792 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6793 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6794 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6797 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
6798 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
6799 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
6800 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
6803 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6804 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6805 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6806 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6807 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6809 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6810 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6811 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6812 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6814 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6815 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6816 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6819 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6820 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6821 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6824 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6825 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
6826 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
6827 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6829 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6830 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6831 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6832 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6833 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6834 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6835 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6836 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6840 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
6841 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
6842 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
6844 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6845 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6846 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6847 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6849 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
6850 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6851 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6854 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
6855 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
6856 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
6857 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
6859 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
6860 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6861 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6862 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6864 o Minor features (unit tests):
6865 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
6866 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
6867 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
6870 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6871 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
6872 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
6873 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6874 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
6875 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
6876 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6877 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
6878 Closes ticket 26245.
6880 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6881 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
6882 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
6883 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
6884 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
6885 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6887 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6888 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6889 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6890 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6893 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6894 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
6895 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6896 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
6897 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
6898 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
6899 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
6900 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
6901 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6902 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
6903 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
6904 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
6905 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
6906 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6909 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
6910 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6911 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
6913 o Directory authority changes:
6914 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6915 Closes ticket 26343.
6917 o Minor features (geoip):
6918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6919 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
6921 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6922 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6923 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6924 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6925 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6926 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6928 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6929 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6930 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6932 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6933 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
6934 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
6935 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
6936 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6938 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6939 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6940 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6942 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6943 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
6944 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
6945 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
6946 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
6947 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6950 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
6951 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
6952 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
6954 o Directory authority changes:
6955 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6956 Closes ticket 26343.
6958 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
6959 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
6960 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
6961 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
6962 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
6964 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6965 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
6966 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
6967 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
6969 o Minor features (geoip):
6970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6971 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
6973 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
6974 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6975 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6976 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6977 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6978 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6980 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6981 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6982 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6983 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
6984 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6985 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
6986 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
6987 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6990 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
6991 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
6992 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
6995 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6996 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
6997 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
6998 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
6999 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7001 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
7002 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7003 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7006 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
7007 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7009 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7010 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7011 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7012 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7016 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7017 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7018 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7020 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7021 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7022 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7023 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7024 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7025 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7027 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
7028 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7030 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7031 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7032 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7033 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7034 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7036 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7037 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7038 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7039 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7040 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7042 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7043 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7044 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7045 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7047 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7048 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7049 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7050 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7052 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7053 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7054 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7056 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7057 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7058 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7061 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7062 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7063 Closes ticket 26006.
7065 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7066 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7067 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7068 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7069 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7070 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7072 o Minor features (geoip):
7073 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7074 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7076 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7077 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7078 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7081 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7082 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7083 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7084 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7085 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7087 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7088 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7089 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7090 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7091 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7094 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7095 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7096 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7098 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7099 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7100 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7101 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7102 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7103 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7104 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7106 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7107 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7108 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7110 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7111 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7112 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7115 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
7116 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
7117 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
7118 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
7119 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
7120 other small features and bugfixes.
7122 o New system requirements:
7123 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7124 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7125 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7126 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7128 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
7129 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7130 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7131 To disable the module, the configure option
7132 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7133 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7135 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7136 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7137 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7138 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7139 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7140 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7141 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7142 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7143 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7144 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7145 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
7147 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7148 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7149 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7150 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7151 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7152 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7153 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7154 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7155 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7156 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7157 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7158 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7159 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7160 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7161 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7162 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7163 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7164 Tor's uptime (26009).
7166 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
7167 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7168 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7169 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7170 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7172 o Major bugfixes (crash):
7173 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7174 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7175 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7177 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7178 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7179 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7180 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7182 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
7183 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7184 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7186 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
7187 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7188 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7189 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
7190 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
7191 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
7192 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
7193 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
7194 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
7195 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
7196 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
7197 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
7198 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
7199 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7201 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
7202 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7203 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7206 o Minor features (accounting):
7207 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7208 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7209 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7210 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7212 o Minor features (code quality):
7213 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7214 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7215 Closes ticket 25024.
7217 o Minor features (compatibility):
7218 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7219 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7220 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7221 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7222 Closes ticket 26006.
7224 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7225 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7226 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7227 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7228 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7229 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7231 o Minor features (configuration):
7232 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7233 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7234 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7235 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7236 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7238 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7239 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7240 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7241 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7242 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7243 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7245 o Minor features (control port):
7246 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7247 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7248 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7249 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7250 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7251 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7252 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7253 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7254 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7255 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7257 o Minor features (directory authority):
7258 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7259 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7260 Closes ticket 23909.
7262 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7263 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7264 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7265 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7267 o Minor features (entry guards):
7268 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7269 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7271 o Minor features (geoip):
7272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7273 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7275 o Minor features (performance):
7276 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7277 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7278 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7279 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7281 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7282 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7284 o Minor features (testing):
7285 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7286 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7288 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7289 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7290 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7291 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7292 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7293 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7295 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7296 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7297 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7298 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7299 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7301 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7302 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7303 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7304 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7305 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7306 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7308 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7309 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7310 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7311 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7313 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
7314 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7315 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7316 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7317 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7320 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7321 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7322 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7325 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7326 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7327 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7328 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7329 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7331 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
7332 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7333 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7334 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7335 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7338 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7339 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7340 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7341 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7343 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
7344 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
7345 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
7346 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
7347 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7349 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7350 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7351 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7352 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7353 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7354 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7357 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7358 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7359 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7360 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7361 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7364 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7365 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7366 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7367 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7368 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7369 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7370 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7372 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7373 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7374 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7376 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
7377 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7378 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7379 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7380 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7381 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7382 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7384 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7385 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7386 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7387 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7388 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7389 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7391 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7392 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7393 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7396 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7397 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7398 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7399 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7401 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7402 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7403 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7404 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7405 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7406 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7407 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7409 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
7410 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7411 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7413 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7414 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7415 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7416 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7418 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7419 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7420 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7421 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7422 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7423 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7424 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7425 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7427 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7428 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7429 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7430 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7431 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7432 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7433 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7435 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7436 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7437 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7438 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7439 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7441 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7442 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7443 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7446 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7447 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7448 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7449 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7450 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7451 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7453 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7454 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7455 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7456 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7457 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7458 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7459 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7460 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7462 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7463 confusing we renamed some functions and
7464 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7465 router_should_check_reachability() and
7466 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7467 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7468 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7469 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7470 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7472 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7473 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7475 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7476 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7477 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7478 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7479 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7480 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7481 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7482 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7483 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7484 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7485 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7486 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7487 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7488 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7489 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7490 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7491 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7492 Closes ticket 25766.
7493 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7494 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7495 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7496 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7497 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7498 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7499 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7500 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7501 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7502 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7503 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7504 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7505 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7506 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7508 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7509 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7510 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7511 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7512 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7513 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7514 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7515 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7516 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7518 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7519 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7520 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7521 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7523 o Deprecated features:
7524 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7525 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7526 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7527 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7528 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7529 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7532 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7533 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7536 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7537 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7538 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7539 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7540 24378 and proposal 290.
7541 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7542 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7543 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7544 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7545 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7546 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7547 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7548 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7549 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7550 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7551 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7552 their local router. Closes 25409.
7553 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7554 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7555 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7556 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7557 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7558 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7559 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7560 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7561 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7562 Closes ticket 25268.
7565 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
7566 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
7567 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
7569 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
7570 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
7571 be nearly identical to this one.
7573 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
7574 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7575 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7576 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
7577 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
7578 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7580 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7581 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7582 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7583 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7584 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7585 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7586 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7588 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
7589 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7590 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7592 o Minor features (config options):
7593 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7594 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7595 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7598 o Minor features (geoip):
7599 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7600 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
7602 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7603 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
7604 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
7605 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
7606 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
7607 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7609 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7610 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
7611 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
7612 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7614 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
7615 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
7616 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
7617 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7618 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
7619 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
7620 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7622 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7623 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7624 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7625 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7626 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7627 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
7628 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7630 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
7631 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
7632 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
7633 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
7634 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
7636 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7637 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
7638 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
7640 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
7641 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
7642 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
7644 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7645 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7646 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7648 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
7649 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
7650 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
7654 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
7655 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
7656 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
7657 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
7659 o New system requirements:
7660 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7661 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7663 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
7664 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7665 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7666 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7667 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7669 o Minor features (geoip):
7670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7671 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
7673 o Minor features (log messages):
7674 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
7675 information about memory usage from the different compression
7676 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
7678 o Minor features (sandbox):
7679 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7680 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7681 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7683 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7684 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7685 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7686 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7688 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
7689 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
7690 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7693 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7694 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7695 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7697 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
7698 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
7699 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
7700 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7702 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7703 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7704 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7705 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7707 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7708 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
7709 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
7711 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7712 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
7713 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
7714 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
7715 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
7716 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7718 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7719 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7720 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7721 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7723 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
7724 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
7725 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
7726 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
7728 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
7729 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
7730 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
7731 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
7734 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
7735 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
7736 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
7737 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
7738 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7740 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7741 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
7742 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
7746 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
7748 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
7749 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
7752 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
7753 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
7756 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7757 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7759 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7760 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7762 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7765 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7766 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
7767 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7769 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
7770 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
7771 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
7772 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
7775 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7776 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7777 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7778 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7781 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7782 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7783 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7784 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7785 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7786 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7787 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7788 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7789 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7790 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7791 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7792 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7793 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7795 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7796 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7797 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7799 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7800 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7801 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7802 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7803 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7804 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7805 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7807 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7808 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7809 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7811 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7812 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7813 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7814 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7815 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7816 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7817 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7819 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7820 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7821 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7822 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7824 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7825 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7826 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7827 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7829 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7830 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7831 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7832 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7833 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7834 Closes ticket 24978.
7836 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7837 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7838 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7839 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7840 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7841 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7842 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7843 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7844 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7846 o Minor features (geoip):
7847 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7850 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7851 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7852 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7853 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7854 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7856 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7857 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7858 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7859 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7860 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7862 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7863 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7864 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7865 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7866 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7869 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7870 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7871 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7872 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7873 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7874 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7875 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7876 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7877 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7878 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
7879 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
7882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
7883 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7884 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7886 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7887 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7888 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7891 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7892 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7893 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7894 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7895 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7896 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7897 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7899 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7900 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
7901 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7902 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
7903 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
7904 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
7905 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
7906 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
7907 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
7910 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7911 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
7912 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
7913 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
7914 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
7915 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7917 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7918 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
7919 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
7920 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7922 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
7923 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7924 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7925 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7926 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7929 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7930 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7931 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7932 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7933 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7934 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7937 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7938 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7939 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7940 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7941 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7942 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7943 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7944 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7945 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7946 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7947 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7949 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7950 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
7951 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
7952 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7954 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7955 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7956 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7957 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7959 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7960 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7961 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7962 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7965 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
7966 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
7967 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
7968 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
7969 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7972 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7974 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7975 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7977 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7978 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
7979 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
7982 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
7983 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7986 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7987 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7989 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7990 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7992 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7995 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7996 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
7997 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7999 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8000 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8001 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8002 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8005 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8006 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8007 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8008 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8009 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8010 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8011 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8012 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8013 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8014 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8015 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8016 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8017 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8019 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8020 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8021 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8022 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8023 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8024 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8025 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8026 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8027 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8029 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8030 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8031 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8032 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8033 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8034 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8035 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8037 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8038 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8039 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8040 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8042 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8043 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8044 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8045 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8046 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8047 Closes ticket 24978.
8049 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8050 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8051 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8052 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8054 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8055 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8056 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8057 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8058 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8059 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8060 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8061 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8062 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8064 o Minor features (geoip):
8065 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8068 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8069 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8070 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8072 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8073 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8074 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8075 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8076 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8078 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8079 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8080 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8081 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8082 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8084 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8085 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8086 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8087 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8088 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8092 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8093 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8095 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8096 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8097 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8100 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8101 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8102 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8103 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8104 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8105 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8106 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8108 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8109 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8110 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8111 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8112 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8115 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8116 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8117 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8118 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8119 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8120 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8122 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8123 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8124 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8125 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8127 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8128 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8129 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8130 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8131 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8132 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8133 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8134 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8135 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8136 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8137 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8138 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8140 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8141 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8142 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8143 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8146 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8147 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8148 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8149 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8150 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8152 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8153 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8155 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8156 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8159 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8160 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8161 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8164 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8165 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8167 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8168 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8169 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8170 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8171 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8172 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8175 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8176 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8178 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8181 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8182 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8183 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8184 the DoS mitigations.)
8186 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8187 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8188 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8189 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8192 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8193 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8194 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8195 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8197 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8198 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8199 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8200 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8201 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8202 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8203 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8204 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8205 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8206 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8207 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8208 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8209 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8211 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8212 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8213 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8214 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8215 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8216 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8217 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8218 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8219 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8220 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8221 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8223 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8224 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8225 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8227 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8228 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8229 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8230 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8231 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8232 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8233 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8235 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8236 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8237 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8238 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8240 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8241 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8242 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8243 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8245 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8246 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8247 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8248 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8249 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8250 Closes ticket 24978.
8252 o Minor features (geoip):
8253 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8256 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8257 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8258 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8261 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8262 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8263 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8264 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8265 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8267 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8268 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8269 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8270 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8271 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8272 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8273 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8275 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8276 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8277 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8278 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8279 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8281 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8282 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8283 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8284 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8286 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8287 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8288 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8289 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8290 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8292 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8293 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8294 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8295 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8298 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8299 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8300 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8302 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8303 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8304 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8305 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8307 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8308 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8310 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8311 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8313 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8314 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8315 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8317 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8318 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8319 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8320 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8321 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8323 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8324 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8325 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8327 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8328 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8329 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8333 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
8334 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
8335 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8336 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8338 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
8339 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
8340 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
8341 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
8342 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
8343 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8345 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8348 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
8349 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8350 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8351 the DoS mitigations.)
8353 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
8354 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8355 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8356 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8359 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8360 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8361 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8362 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8363 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8364 Closes ticket 24978.
8366 o Minor features (logging):
8367 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8368 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8370 o Minor features (testing):
8371 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8374 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
8375 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8376 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8377 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8378 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8379 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8380 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8382 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
8383 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
8384 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
8385 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8386 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
8387 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
8390 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8391 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8392 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
8393 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
8395 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8396 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8397 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8398 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8399 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8402 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
8403 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8405 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8406 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8408 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
8409 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
8410 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8411 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
8413 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8414 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8415 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8418 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
8419 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
8420 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
8421 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
8422 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
8423 it to older supported release series.
8425 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8426 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8427 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8428 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8429 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8430 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8431 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8432 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8433 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8434 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8435 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8436 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8437 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8439 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8440 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8441 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8442 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8443 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8444 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8445 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8446 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8448 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
8449 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8450 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8452 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
8453 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8454 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8455 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8457 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8458 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8459 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8460 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8462 o Minor features (directory authority):
8463 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8464 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8466 o Minor features (geoip):
8467 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8470 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
8471 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8472 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
8475 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8476 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8477 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8478 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8479 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8481 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8482 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8483 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8484 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8485 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8487 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
8488 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8489 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8490 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8492 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8493 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8494 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8495 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8496 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8498 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8499 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8500 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8501 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8503 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8504 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8505 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8506 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8507 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8508 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8509 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8511 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8512 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8513 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8514 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8515 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8516 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8517 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8518 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8520 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8521 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8522 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8523 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8524 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8525 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8526 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8528 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8529 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8530 would call the Rust implementation of
8531 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8532 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8533 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8534 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8535 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8537 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
8538 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8539 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
8542 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8543 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8544 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8545 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8546 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8547 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8549 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8550 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8551 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8552 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8553 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8555 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8556 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8558 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8559 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8560 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8563 o Documentation (man page):
8564 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8565 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8569 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
8570 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
8571 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
8572 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
8573 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
8574 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
8577 o Major features (embedding):
8578 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8579 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8580 Closes ticket 23684.
8581 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8582 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8583 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8584 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8585 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8586 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8588 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8589 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8590 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8591 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
8592 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8593 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
8594 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
8595 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
8596 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
8597 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8598 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8601 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8602 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8603 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8604 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8605 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8606 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8607 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8609 o Major features (onion services):
8610 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8611 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8612 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8613 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8614 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8617 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8618 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8619 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8620 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8621 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8622 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8623 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8624 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8626 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8627 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8628 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8629 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8630 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8632 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
8633 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8634 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8635 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8636 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8637 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8638 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8640 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8641 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8642 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8643 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8644 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8645 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8646 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8647 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8648 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8649 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8650 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8652 o Major bugfixes (relays):
8653 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8654 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8655 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8656 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8657 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8658 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8660 o Minor feature (IPv6):
8661 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8662 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8663 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8664 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8665 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
8666 Implements ticket 23827.
8668 o Minor features (cleanup):
8669 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8670 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8672 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8673 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8674 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8675 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8676 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8677 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8678 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8679 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8680 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8681 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8683 o Minor features (embedding):
8684 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8685 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8686 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8687 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8688 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8689 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8690 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8691 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8692 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8693 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
8694 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8695 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8696 Closes ticket 23848.
8697 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8698 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8699 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8701 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8702 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8703 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8704 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8705 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8706 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8707 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8708 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8711 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8712 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8713 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8714 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8715 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8716 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8717 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8719 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8720 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8721 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8722 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8723 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8724 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8725 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8726 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8727 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8728 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8729 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8730 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8732 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8733 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8734 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8736 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8737 Implements ticket 24791.
8739 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8740 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8741 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8742 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8743 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8744 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8746 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8747 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8748 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8751 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8752 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8753 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8754 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8755 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8757 o Minor features (log messages):
8758 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8759 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8760 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8761 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8763 o Minor features (logging, android):
8764 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8767 o Minor features (performance):
8768 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8769 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8770 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8771 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8773 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8774 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8775 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8776 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8777 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8778 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8779 Implements ticket 24374.
8781 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8782 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8783 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8784 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8785 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8787 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8788 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8789 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8790 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8793 o Major features (relay):
8794 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8795 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8796 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8797 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8798 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8800 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8801 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8802 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8803 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8804 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8805 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8806 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8807 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8808 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8810 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
8811 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8812 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8813 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8815 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8816 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8817 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8818 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8819 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8820 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8821 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8822 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8823 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8824 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8825 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8826 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8829 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8830 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8831 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8832 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8835 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8836 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8837 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8840 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8841 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8842 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8844 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8845 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8846 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8847 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8848 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8850 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8851 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8852 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8853 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8855 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8856 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8857 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8858 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8859 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8860 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8862 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8863 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8864 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8865 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8867 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8868 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8869 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8870 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8871 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8872 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8875 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8876 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8877 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8878 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8880 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
8881 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8882 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8883 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8885 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8886 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8887 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8888 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8889 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8890 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8891 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8892 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8893 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8894 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8895 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8896 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8898 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8899 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8900 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8901 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8902 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8904 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8905 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8907 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8908 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8909 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8910 "aruna1234" and teor.
8911 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8912 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8913 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8914 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8916 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8917 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8918 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8919 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8920 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8921 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8922 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
8923 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
8924 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
8925 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
8927 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
8928 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
8931 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
8932 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
8934 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
8935 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
8936 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
8937 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
8938 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8939 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8942 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
8943 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
8944 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
8945 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
8946 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
8948 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
8949 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
8950 adding very little except for unit test.
8952 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
8953 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
8954 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
8955 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
8957 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
8958 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
8959 const. Implements ticket 24489.
8962 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
8963 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
8965 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
8966 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
8967 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
8968 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
8969 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
8970 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
8972 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8973 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8974 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8975 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8976 with the 0.2.9 series.
8978 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
8979 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8981 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8982 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8983 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8984 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8985 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8986 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8987 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8988 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8989 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8991 o Minor features (geoip):
8992 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8995 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8996 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8997 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8998 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8999 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9002 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9003 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
9004 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9006 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9007 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9008 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9009 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9013 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
9014 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
9015 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
9016 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
9017 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
9018 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
9019 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
9021 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
9022 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
9023 will be nearly identical to this.
9025 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
9026 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
9027 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
9028 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
9029 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
9030 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
9031 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9033 o Minor features (geoip):
9034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9037 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
9038 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
9039 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
9040 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9042 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9043 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9044 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9045 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9046 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9049 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9050 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
9051 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
9052 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
9053 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
9054 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9057 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
9058 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9059 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9061 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
9062 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
9063 be nearly identical to this.
9065 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9066 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9067 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9068 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9069 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9070 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9071 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9073 o Minor features (logging):
9074 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9077 o Minor features (portability):
9078 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9079 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9082 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9083 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9084 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9085 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9086 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9087 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9088 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9089 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9090 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9091 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9092 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9093 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9094 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9096 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9097 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9098 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9101 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9102 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9103 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9104 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9105 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9106 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9109 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9110 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
9111 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
9112 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
9113 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
9114 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
9115 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9117 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9118 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
9119 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
9120 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9121 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
9122 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
9123 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
9124 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9125 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
9126 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
9127 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9130 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
9131 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
9132 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
9133 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
9136 o Major bugfixes (security):
9137 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9138 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9139 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9140 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9141 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9142 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9143 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9144 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9145 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9146 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9148 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9149 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9150 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9151 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9152 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9153 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9154 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9157 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9158 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9159 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9160 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9161 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9163 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9164 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9165 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9166 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9167 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9168 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9169 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9170 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9171 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9173 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9174 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9175 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9176 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9178 o Minor features (directory authority):
9179 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9182 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9183 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9184 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9185 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9188 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9189 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9190 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9191 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9193 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9194 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9195 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9196 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9197 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9198 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9199 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9200 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9201 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9202 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9203 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9205 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9206 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9207 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9208 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9209 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9210 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9211 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9214 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9215 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9216 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9217 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9218 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9220 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9221 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9222 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9223 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9224 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9225 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9226 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9227 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9228 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9230 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9231 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9232 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9233 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9234 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9235 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9238 o Minor features (bridge):
9239 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9240 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9241 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9242 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9245 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9246 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9249 o Minor features (geoip):
9250 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9253 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9254 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9255 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9256 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9257 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9260 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9261 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9263 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9264 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9265 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9266 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9267 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9268 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9271 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9272 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9275 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9276 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9277 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9278 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9279 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9282 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9283 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9284 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9285 to another of the releases coming out today.
9287 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9288 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9289 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9291 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9292 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9293 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9294 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9295 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9296 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9297 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9298 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9299 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9300 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9301 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9303 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9304 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9305 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9306 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9307 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9308 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9309 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9312 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9313 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9314 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9315 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9316 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9318 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9319 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9320 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9321 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9322 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9323 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9324 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9325 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9326 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9328 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9329 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9330 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9331 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9332 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9333 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9336 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9337 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9338 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9339 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9340 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9341 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9343 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9344 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9345 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9346 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9347 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9350 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9351 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9354 o Minor features (geoip):
9355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9358 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9359 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9360 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9361 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9362 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9364 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9365 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9366 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9368 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9369 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9370 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9371 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9372 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9373 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9375 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9376 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9377 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9378 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9379 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9381 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9382 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9383 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9386 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9387 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9388 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9389 to another of the releases coming out today.
9391 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9392 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9393 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9394 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9395 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9396 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9399 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9400 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9401 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9402 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9403 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9404 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9405 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9406 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9407 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9408 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9409 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9411 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9412 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9413 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9414 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9415 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9416 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9417 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9420 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9421 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9422 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9423 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9424 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9426 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9427 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9428 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9429 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9430 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9431 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9433 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9434 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9435 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9436 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9437 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9440 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9441 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9444 o Minor features (geoip):
9445 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9448 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9449 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9450 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9451 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9452 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9453 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9455 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9456 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9457 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9458 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9459 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9462 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9463 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9465 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9466 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9467 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9468 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9469 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9470 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9472 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9473 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9474 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9475 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9476 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9478 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9479 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9480 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9483 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
9484 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9485 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9486 to another of the releases coming out today.
9488 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9489 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
9490 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9492 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9493 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9494 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9495 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9496 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9497 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9498 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9499 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9500 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9501 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9502 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9503 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9504 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9505 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9506 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9509 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9510 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9511 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9512 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9513 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9515 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9516 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
9517 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
9518 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
9519 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
9522 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9523 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9524 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9525 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9526 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9529 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9530 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9533 o Minor features (geoip):
9534 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9537 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9538 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9539 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9542 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
9543 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9544 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9545 to another of the releases coming out today.
9547 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9548 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9549 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9551 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9552 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9553 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9554 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9555 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9556 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9557 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9558 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9559 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9560 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9561 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9562 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9563 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9564 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9565 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9568 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9569 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9570 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9571 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9572 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9573 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9575 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9576 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9577 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9578 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9579 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9582 o Minor features (geoip):
9583 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9587 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
9588 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
9589 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
9590 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
9591 since the 0.3.0.x series.
9593 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
9594 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
9597 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9598 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9599 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9600 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9601 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9602 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9603 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9604 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9605 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9606 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9607 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9610 o Minor features (directory authority):
9611 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9612 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9613 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9614 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9616 o Minor features (geoip):
9617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9620 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9621 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9622 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9624 o Minor features (logging):
9625 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9626 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9628 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9629 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9632 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9633 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9634 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9635 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9636 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
9637 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
9638 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9640 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9641 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9642 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9645 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9646 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9647 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9648 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9650 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9651 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9652 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9653 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9654 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9655 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9656 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9657 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9658 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9661 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9662 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
9663 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9664 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9665 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9666 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9667 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9669 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9670 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9671 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9672 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9673 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9674 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9676 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9677 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9678 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9679 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9680 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9681 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9682 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9684 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
9685 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
9686 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9688 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9689 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
9690 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
9691 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9692 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9693 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9694 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9695 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9698 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9699 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9700 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9703 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
9704 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
9705 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
9706 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
9709 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9710 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9711 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9712 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9713 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9714 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9717 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
9718 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
9719 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
9720 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
9721 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9723 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
9724 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
9725 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
9726 Closes ticket 23753.
9728 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
9729 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9730 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9731 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9732 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9734 o Minor features (testing):
9735 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9736 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9738 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9739 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9740 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9741 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9742 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9744 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
9745 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
9746 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
9747 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
9748 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
9751 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
9752 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
9753 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
9754 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
9755 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9757 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
9758 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
9759 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
9760 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9762 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9763 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
9764 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
9766 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
9767 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9768 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
9770 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9771 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
9772 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
9773 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9774 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
9775 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9777 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9778 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9779 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9780 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9781 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9782 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9783 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9784 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9785 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9786 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9787 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9788 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9790 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9791 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9792 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9793 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9794 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9796 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9797 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9798 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9799 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9800 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9801 Closes ticket 24109.
9804 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
9805 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
9806 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
9807 directory authority, Bastet.
9809 o Directory authority changes:
9810 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9811 Closes ticket 23910.
9812 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9813 Closes ticket 23592.
9815 o Minor features (bridge):
9816 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9817 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9818 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9819 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9820 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9821 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9822 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9824 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
9825 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9826 Resolves ticket 23670.
9828 o Minor features (geoip):
9829 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9832 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
9833 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
9834 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
9835 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9837 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9838 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
9839 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9841 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
9842 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9843 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9844 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9845 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9846 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9848 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
9849 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
9850 only fetch the service descriptor once.
9851 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
9852 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
9853 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9855 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9856 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
9857 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
9858 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
9860 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
9861 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
9862 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9864 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
9865 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
9866 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
9867 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
9868 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9870 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
9871 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
9872 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9874 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9875 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
9876 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
9879 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9880 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
9881 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9882 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
9883 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9884 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
9885 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
9886 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
9888 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
9889 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
9890 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9891 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
9892 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
9895 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
9896 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
9897 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
9898 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
9899 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
9903 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
9904 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9905 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9907 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9908 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9909 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9911 o Directory authority changes:
9912 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9913 Closes ticket 23910.
9914 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9915 Closes ticket 23592.
9917 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9918 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9919 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9920 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9921 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9923 o Minor features (geoip):
9924 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9927 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9928 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9929 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9930 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9931 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9932 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9933 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9934 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9935 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9937 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9938 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9939 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9940 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9941 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9942 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9943 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9944 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9945 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9948 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
9949 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9950 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9951 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9953 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9954 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9955 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9957 o Directory authority changes:
9958 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9959 Closes ticket 23910.
9960 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9961 Closes ticket 23592.
9963 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9964 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9965 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9966 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9968 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9969 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9970 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9971 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9972 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9974 o Minor features (geoip):
9975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9979 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
9980 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9981 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9982 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9984 o Directory authority changes:
9985 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9986 Closes ticket 23910.
9987 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9988 Closes ticket 23592.
9990 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9991 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9992 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9993 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9995 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9996 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9997 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9998 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9999 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10001 o Minor features (geoip):
10002 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10005 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10006 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10007 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10008 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10009 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10010 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10011 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10012 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10015 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10016 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10017 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10019 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10020 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10021 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10022 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10023 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10024 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10025 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10028 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10029 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10030 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10031 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10033 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10034 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10035 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10037 o Directory authority changes:
10038 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10039 Closes ticket 23910.
10040 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10041 Closes ticket 23592.
10043 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10044 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10045 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10046 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10048 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10049 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10050 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10051 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10052 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10054 o Minor features (geoip):
10055 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10058 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10059 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10060 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10061 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10062 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10063 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10064 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10065 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10068 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10069 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10070 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10071 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10073 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10074 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10075 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10077 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10078 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10079 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10080 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10081 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10082 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10083 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10086 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10087 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10088 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10089 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10090 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10092 o Directory authority changes:
10093 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10094 Closes ticket 23910.
10095 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10096 Closes ticket 23592.
10098 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10099 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10100 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10101 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10103 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10104 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10105 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10106 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10107 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10109 o Minor features (geoip):
10110 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10113 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10114 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10115 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10116 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10118 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10119 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10120 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10123 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10124 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10125 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10128 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10129 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10130 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10132 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10133 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10134 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10137 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10138 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10142 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
10143 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
10144 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
10145 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
10146 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
10147 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
10149 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
10150 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
10151 include better testing and logging.
10153 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
10156 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
10157 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10158 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10159 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10161 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10162 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
10163 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
10164 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
10165 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
10166 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
10167 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10169 o Minor features (build, compilation):
10170 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
10171 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
10172 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
10173 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
10174 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
10175 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
10176 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
10177 Closes ticket 23643.
10179 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10180 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10181 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10182 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10183 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10185 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
10186 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10187 the circuit identifier(s).
10188 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10189 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10191 o Minor features (logging):
10192 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10193 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10194 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10195 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10196 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10198 o Minor features (relay):
10199 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10200 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10201 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10202 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10204 o Minor features (robustness):
10205 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10206 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10208 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
10209 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
10210 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
10211 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
10212 related to ticket 23080.
10214 o Minor features (testing):
10215 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10216 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10219 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10220 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10221 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10223 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
10224 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
10227 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10228 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10229 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10230 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10231 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10232 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10233 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10234 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10235 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10237 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10238 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10239 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10242 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10243 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
10244 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
10245 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10247 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
10248 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
10249 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
10250 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
10251 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10252 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
10253 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
10254 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
10257 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
10258 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10259 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10260 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10262 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10263 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10264 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10265 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10266 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10267 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10269 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
10270 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
10271 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
10272 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10273 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
10274 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
10275 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10276 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
10277 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10278 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
10279 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
10281 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
10282 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
10283 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
10284 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10285 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
10286 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10288 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10289 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10290 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10292 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10293 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10295 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
10296 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
10297 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10299 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10300 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10301 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10304 o Deprecated features:
10305 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10306 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10307 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10310 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
10311 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10312 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10313 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10314 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10315 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10316 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10317 Closes ticket 18736.
10320 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
10321 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
10322 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
10323 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
10324 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
10325 features and bugfixes here.
10327 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
10329 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10330 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10331 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10332 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10333 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10334 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10335 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10336 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10337 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10338 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10339 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10340 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10342 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10343 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10344 more information, see the design paper at
10345 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10346 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10347 Closes ticket 12541.
10349 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10350 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10351 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10352 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10353 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10354 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10357 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10358 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10360 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10363 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10366 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10368 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
10370 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
10372 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
10373 they are 56 characters long, as in
10374 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
10376 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
10377 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
10378 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
10379 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
10380 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
10383 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
10384 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
10385 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
10386 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
10387 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
10388 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
10391 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
10392 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
10393 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
10394 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
10396 o Minor features (bug detection):
10397 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
10398 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
10399 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
10401 o Minor features (client):
10402 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
10403 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
10404 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
10405 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
10406 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
10407 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
10408 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
10409 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
10410 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
10411 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
10413 o Minor features (command line):
10414 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
10415 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
10416 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
10418 o Minor features (control port):
10419 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
10420 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
10421 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
10423 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
10424 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
10426 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
10427 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
10428 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
10429 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
10430 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
10431 Closes ticket 23237.
10432 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
10433 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10435 o Minor features (development support):
10436 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
10437 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
10438 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
10439 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
10440 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
10441 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
10443 o Minor features (ed25519):
10444 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
10445 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
10446 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
10448 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
10449 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
10450 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
10452 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
10453 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
10454 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
10455 another program, regardless of the settings of
10456 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
10457 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
10458 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
10460 o Minor features (logging):
10461 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10462 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10463 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10465 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10466 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10468 o Minor features (portability):
10469 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10470 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10471 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10472 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10474 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10475 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10476 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10477 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10478 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10480 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10481 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10482 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10485 o Minor features (static analysis):
10486 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10487 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10490 o Minor features (testing):
10491 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10492 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10493 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10494 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
10495 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10497 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10498 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10499 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10500 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10503 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10504 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10505 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10506 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10507 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10508 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10509 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10511 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10512 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
10513 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
10514 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
10515 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10516 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
10517 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
10518 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10520 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10521 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10522 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10524 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
10525 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
10526 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
10527 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10529 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
10530 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
10531 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
10532 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
10533 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
10534 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
10536 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
10537 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
10540 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
10541 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
10542 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
10543 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10545 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
10546 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
10547 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
10548 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
10549 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
10550 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
10551 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
10554 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
10555 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
10556 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
10557 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10559 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
10560 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10561 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10563 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10564 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
10565 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
10566 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10567 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
10568 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
10570 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
10571 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10572 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10574 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10575 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10576 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10578 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10579 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10580 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10581 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10583 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10584 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10585 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10587 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10588 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10589 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10590 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10591 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10592 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10593 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10594 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10597 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10598 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10599 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10600 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10601 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10602 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10604 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10605 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10606 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10607 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10609 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10610 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10611 function from the general code to handle channel state
10612 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10613 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10614 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10615 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10616 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10617 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10618 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10619 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10621 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10622 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10624 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10625 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10626 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10627 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10628 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10629 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10630 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10631 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10632 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10633 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10634 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10635 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10637 o Deprecated features:
10638 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10639 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10640 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10644 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10645 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10646 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10647 Closes ticket 15645.
10648 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10649 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10650 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10651 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10653 o Removed features:
10654 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10655 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10656 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10657 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10658 Closes ticket 21031.
10659 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10660 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10663 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10664 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10667 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10668 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10669 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10670 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10672 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10673 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10674 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10675 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10677 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10678 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10679 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10680 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10681 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10687 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10688 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10689 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10692 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10693 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10694 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10695 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10696 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10697 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10698 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10699 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10700 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10702 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10703 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10704 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10705 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10706 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10707 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10708 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10709 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10710 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10713 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10714 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10717 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10718 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10719 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10720 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10722 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10723 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10724 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10725 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10726 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10727 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10728 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10730 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10731 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10732 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10733 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10735 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10736 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10737 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10739 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10740 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10741 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10742 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10744 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10745 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10746 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10747 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10748 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10750 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10751 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10752 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10753 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10755 o Minor features (geoip):
10756 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10759 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10760 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10761 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10762 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10765 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10766 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10767 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10768 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10769 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10770 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10771 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10773 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10774 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10775 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10778 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10779 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10782 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10783 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10784 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10785 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10786 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10788 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10789 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10790 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10791 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10792 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10793 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10795 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10796 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10797 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10798 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10799 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10800 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10801 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10802 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10803 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10805 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10806 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10807 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10808 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10810 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10811 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10812 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10814 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10815 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10816 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10817 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10818 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10820 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10821 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10822 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10825 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10826 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10827 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10828 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10829 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10831 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10832 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10833 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10834 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10835 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10836 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10837 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10838 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10839 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10842 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
10843 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
10846 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10847 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10848 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10849 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10851 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10852 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10853 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10854 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10861 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10862 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10864 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10865 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10866 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10867 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10868 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10870 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10871 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10872 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10873 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10876 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10877 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10879 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10880 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10881 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10882 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10885 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
10886 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10888 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
10889 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
10890 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
10891 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
10892 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
10893 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
10894 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
10896 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
10897 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
10898 disabled. For more information, see
10899 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10901 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10902 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10903 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10904 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10905 with the 0.2.9 series.
10907 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
10908 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10910 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
10911 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
10912 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
10913 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
10914 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
10916 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10917 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
10918 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
10919 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
10922 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10923 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
10924 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
10925 attempt for bug 23105.
10927 o Minor features (geoip):
10928 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10931 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10932 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10933 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10935 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10936 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10937 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10938 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10939 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10941 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10942 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
10943 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
10944 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10946 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10947 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
10948 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
10952 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
10953 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
10954 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
10955 Windows directory caches.
10957 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
10958 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
10959 will be nearly identical to it.
10961 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
10962 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
10963 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
10964 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
10965 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
10966 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10968 o Minor features (directory authority):
10969 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
10970 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
10971 Closes ticket 22348.
10973 o Minor features (geoip):
10974 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10977 o Minor features (testing):
10978 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
10981 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
10982 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
10983 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10986 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
10987 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
10988 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
10989 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
10990 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
10991 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
10992 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
10993 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
10994 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10996 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
10997 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10998 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11000 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11001 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11002 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11003 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11005 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11006 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
11007 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
11008 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
11009 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11011 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11012 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11013 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11014 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11015 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11016 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11018 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
11019 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
11020 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11021 with the clang static analyzer.
11023 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11024 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11025 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11026 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
11027 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
11030 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11031 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11032 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11033 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11034 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11035 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11036 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11039 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11040 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11041 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11042 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11044 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11045 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11046 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11047 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11048 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11049 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11050 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11051 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11052 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11054 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11055 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11056 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11057 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11059 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11060 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11061 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11062 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11063 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11065 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11066 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11069 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11070 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11071 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11072 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11075 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11076 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11077 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11078 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11079 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11080 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11081 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11085 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11086 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11089 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11090 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11091 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11092 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11093 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11094 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11096 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11097 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11098 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11099 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11101 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11102 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11103 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11105 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11106 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11107 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11110 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
11111 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
11112 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
11113 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
11114 next version will be a release candidate.
11116 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
11117 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
11118 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
11119 one of those versions should upgrade.
11121 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11122 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11123 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11124 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11125 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11126 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11127 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11128 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11129 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11131 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11132 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11133 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11134 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11135 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11137 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
11138 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
11139 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
11140 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
11141 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
11142 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11144 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11145 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11146 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11148 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11149 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11150 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11151 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11152 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11155 o Minor features (geoip):
11156 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11159 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11160 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11161 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11162 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11163 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11164 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11167 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
11168 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
11169 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
11170 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
11171 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
11173 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
11174 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
11175 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
11176 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
11177 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11179 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11180 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11181 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11182 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11183 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11184 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
11185 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
11186 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11187 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11188 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11189 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11192 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11193 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11194 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11195 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11196 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11197 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11199 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11200 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11201 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11202 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11203 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11204 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11205 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11206 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11209 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11210 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11211 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11214 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11215 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11216 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11217 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11219 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11220 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11221 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11223 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11224 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11225 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11226 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11228 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11229 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
11230 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
11231 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
11232 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11233 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11234 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11237 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
11238 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11239 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11240 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11241 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
11244 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
11245 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
11248 o New dependencies:
11249 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11250 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
11251 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
11252 close ticket 22623.)
11254 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11255 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11256 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11257 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11258 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11259 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11261 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
11262 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
11263 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
11264 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11266 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
11267 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
11268 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
11269 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
11270 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11272 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11273 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11274 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11275 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11277 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
11278 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11279 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11280 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11282 o Minor features (geoip):
11283 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11286 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11287 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
11288 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
11290 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
11291 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11292 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
11293 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
11294 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
11295 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
11297 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
11298 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
11300 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11301 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11302 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11303 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11304 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11306 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11307 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11308 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11309 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11310 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11311 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11312 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11313 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11314 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11315 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11316 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11317 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11319 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11320 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11321 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11322 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11323 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11324 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
11325 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
11326 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
11327 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11329 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11330 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11331 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11332 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11333 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11334 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11335 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11336 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11337 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11338 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11339 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11340 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
11341 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
11342 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
11343 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
11344 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11346 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11347 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11348 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11349 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11350 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11351 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11352 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11356 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11358 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11359 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11361 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11362 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11363 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11367 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11368 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11369 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11370 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11371 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11374 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11377 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11378 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11379 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11380 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11381 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11382 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11384 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11385 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11386 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11387 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11389 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11390 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11391 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11392 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11394 o Minor features (geoip):
11395 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11398 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11399 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11400 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11401 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11402 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11404 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11405 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11406 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11407 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11408 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11410 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11411 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11412 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11413 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11414 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11415 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11416 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11417 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11418 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11421 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
11422 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11423 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11424 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11425 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11427 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11428 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11429 bugfixes described below.
11431 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11432 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11433 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11434 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11435 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11436 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11437 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11440 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11441 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11442 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11443 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11444 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11445 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11446 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11449 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11450 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11451 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11452 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11453 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11454 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11455 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11456 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11457 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11458 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11459 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11460 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11461 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11464 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
11465 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
11466 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
11468 o Minor features (code style):
11469 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11470 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11471 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11473 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11474 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11475 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11476 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11477 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11479 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11480 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11481 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11483 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11484 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
11485 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11487 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11488 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11489 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11490 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11491 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11492 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11493 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11495 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
11496 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
11497 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
11498 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
11499 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11501 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11502 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11503 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11507 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11510 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11511 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11512 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11513 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11514 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11516 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11517 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11518 bugfixes described below.
11520 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11521 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11522 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11523 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11524 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11525 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11526 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11527 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11530 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11531 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11532 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11533 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11534 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11535 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11536 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11539 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11540 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11541 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11542 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11543 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11544 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11545 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11546 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11547 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11548 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11549 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11550 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11551 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11554 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11555 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11556 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11559 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11560 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11561 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11562 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11563 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11565 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11566 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11567 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11569 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11570 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11571 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11573 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11574 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11575 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11576 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11577 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11578 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11579 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11581 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11583 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11584 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11585 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11588 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11589 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11590 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11591 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11592 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11593 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11595 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11596 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11597 bugfixes described below.
11599 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11600 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11601 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11602 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11603 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11606 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11607 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11608 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11609 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11610 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11611 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11612 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11615 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11616 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11617 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11618 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11619 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11621 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11622 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11623 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11624 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11625 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11626 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11627 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11629 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11630 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11631 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11632 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11633 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11635 o Minor features (geoip):
11636 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11639 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11640 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11641 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11642 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11644 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11645 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11646 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11648 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11649 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11650 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11651 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11652 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11655 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11656 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11657 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11658 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11659 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11661 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11662 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11663 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11664 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11665 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11666 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11668 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11669 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11670 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11671 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11674 o Minor features (geoip):
11675 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11678 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11679 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11680 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11681 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11682 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11684 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11685 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11686 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11688 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11689 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11690 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11691 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11692 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11693 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11695 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11696 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11697 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11698 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11701 o Minor features (geoip):
11702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11705 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11706 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11707 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11710 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11711 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11712 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11713 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11714 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11715 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11717 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11718 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11719 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11720 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11723 o Minor features (geoip):
11724 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11727 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11728 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11729 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11731 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11732 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11733 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11734 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11735 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11736 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11738 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11739 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11740 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11741 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11744 o Minor features (geoip):
11745 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11748 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11749 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11750 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11752 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11753 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11754 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11755 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11756 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11757 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11759 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11760 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11761 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11762 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11765 o Minor features (geoip):
11766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11769 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11770 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11771 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11774 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
11775 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11776 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
11777 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
11779 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
11780 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
11781 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
11782 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
11783 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11785 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11786 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11787 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11790 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
11791 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11792 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11793 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11796 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
11797 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11798 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
11799 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
11800 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
11803 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
11804 security, correctness, and performance.
11806 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
11808 o Major features (directory protocol):
11809 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11810 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11811 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11812 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11813 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11814 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11815 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11816 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11817 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11818 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11819 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11820 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11821 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11822 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11823 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11824 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11825 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11827 o Major features (experimental):
11828 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
11829 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
11830 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
11831 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
11832 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
11833 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
11834 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
11836 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
11837 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
11838 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
11839 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
11840 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
11841 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
11844 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
11845 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
11846 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
11847 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
11848 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
11849 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
11850 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
11851 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
11852 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
11853 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
11854 multiples of 10000.
11856 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
11857 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
11858 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
11859 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
11860 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
11861 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
11862 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
11863 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
11864 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11865 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
11866 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
11867 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
11868 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
11869 Otherwise it is at info.
11871 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11872 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11873 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11874 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11876 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
11877 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11878 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11879 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11881 o Minor features (security, windows):
11882 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11883 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11884 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11885 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11886 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11888 o Minor features (config options):
11889 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
11890 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
11891 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
11892 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
11893 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
11894 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
11895 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
11896 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
11898 o Minor features (controller):
11899 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
11900 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
11902 o Minor features (defaults):
11903 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
11904 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
11905 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
11906 can. Closes ticket 21407.
11907 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
11908 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
11909 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
11910 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
11911 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
11912 Closes ticket 21641.
11914 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11915 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
11916 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
11917 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11918 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11919 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11920 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11922 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
11923 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
11924 introduction points than specified in
11925 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
11926 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
11927 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
11928 21594; closes ticket 21622.
11929 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
11930 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
11931 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
11932 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
11934 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11935 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
11936 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
11937 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
11938 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
11939 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
11940 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
11941 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
11942 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
11943 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
11945 o Minor features (logging):
11946 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
11947 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
11948 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
11949 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
11952 o Minor features (performance):
11953 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
11954 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
11956 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
11957 speed some controller functions.
11959 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11960 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
11961 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
11962 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
11964 o Minor features (safety):
11965 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
11966 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
11967 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
11970 o Minor features (testing):
11971 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
11972 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
11973 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
11974 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
11975 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
11976 on. Closes ticket 21439.
11977 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
11978 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
11979 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
11980 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
11981 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
11982 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
11983 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
11984 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
11985 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
11986 21507. Partially implements 21470.
11988 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
11989 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11990 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11991 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11993 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11994 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
11995 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
11996 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
11999 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12000 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12001 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12003 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12004 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12005 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12006 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12007 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12008 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12009 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12010 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12011 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12012 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12013 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12014 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12015 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12016 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12018 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12019 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12020 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12021 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12022 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12023 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12024 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12025 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12027 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12028 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12029 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12030 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12031 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12032 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
12033 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
12035 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
12036 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
12037 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
12038 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
12039 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
12041 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12042 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
12043 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12044 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
12045 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
12046 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12047 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
12048 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12049 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
12050 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
12051 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12053 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12054 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
12055 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
12056 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12057 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
12058 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
12059 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12061 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
12062 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
12063 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12065 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
12066 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
12067 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
12068 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
12069 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12071 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12072 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
12073 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
12074 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12075 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
12076 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12077 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
12078 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
12079 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
12080 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
12082 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
12083 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12084 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12085 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12086 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12088 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
12089 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
12090 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12092 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12093 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
12094 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
12095 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
12096 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
12097 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
12098 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
12099 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
12100 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
12101 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
12102 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
12103 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
12105 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
12106 Resolves ticket 22213.
12107 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
12108 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
12109 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
12110 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
12111 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
12112 types. Closes ticket 21651.
12113 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
12114 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
12117 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
12118 Closes ticket 21873.
12119 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
12120 Closes ticket 21151.
12121 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
12122 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
12124 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
12125 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12126 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
12127 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
12129 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
12130 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
12131 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12132 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
12133 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
12134 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
12135 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
12136 default behavior is now unavailable.
12137 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
12138 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
12139 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
12140 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
12141 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
12142 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
12143 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
12145 o Removed features (tools):
12146 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
12147 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
12148 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
12149 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
12150 required. Closes ticket 21842.
12153 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12154 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12155 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12156 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12157 clients are not affected.
12159 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12160 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12161 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12162 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12163 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12164 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12167 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12170 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12171 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12172 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12173 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12174 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12175 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12176 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12178 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12179 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12180 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12181 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12182 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12186 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12187 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12189 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12190 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12191 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12192 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12193 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12194 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12197 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12198 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12200 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12201 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12202 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12203 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12204 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12206 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
12207 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12209 o Minor features (geoip):
12210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12213 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12214 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12215 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12216 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12218 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12219 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12220 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12221 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12224 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
12225 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12226 0.3.0 release series.
12228 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
12229 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
12230 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
12233 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12234 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12235 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12236 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12238 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12239 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
12240 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
12241 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12242 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
12244 o Minor features (geoip):
12245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12248 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
12249 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
12250 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
12251 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
12254 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12255 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12256 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12257 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12258 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12259 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12260 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12261 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12263 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12264 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
12265 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12267 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12268 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12269 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12272 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12273 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
12274 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
12275 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
12276 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12279 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12280 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12281 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12285 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12286 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12287 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12288 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12289 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12292 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12293 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12294 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12296 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12297 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12298 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12299 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12300 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12301 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12302 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12304 o Minor features (geoip):
12305 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12309 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12310 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12311 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12312 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12315 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12316 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12317 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12319 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12320 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12322 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12323 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12324 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12326 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12327 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12328 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12331 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12332 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12333 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12334 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12335 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12336 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12337 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12338 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12339 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12341 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12342 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12343 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12344 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12345 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12346 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12347 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12348 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12349 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12350 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12351 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12352 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12353 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12355 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12356 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12357 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12358 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12359 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12361 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12362 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12363 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12365 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12366 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12367 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12368 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12369 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12370 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12371 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12374 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12375 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12376 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12377 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12378 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12379 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12380 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12382 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12383 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12384 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12385 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12388 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12389 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12390 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12391 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12393 o Minor features (geoip):
12394 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12398 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12399 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12400 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12401 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12404 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12405 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12406 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12408 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12409 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12411 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12412 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12413 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12415 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12416 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12417 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12420 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12421 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12422 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12423 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12424 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12425 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12426 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12427 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12428 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12430 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12431 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12432 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12433 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12434 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12435 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12436 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12437 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12438 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12440 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12441 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12442 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12443 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12444 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12446 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12447 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12448 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12449 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12450 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12453 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12454 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12455 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12456 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12457 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12459 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12460 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12461 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12463 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12464 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12465 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12466 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12467 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12468 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12471 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12472 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12473 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12474 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12475 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12476 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12477 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12480 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12481 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12482 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12483 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12484 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12485 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12486 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12488 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12489 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12490 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12491 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12494 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12495 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12496 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12497 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12499 o Minor features (geoip):
12500 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12503 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12504 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12505 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12508 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12509 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12510 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12511 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12514 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12515 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12516 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12518 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12519 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12521 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12522 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12523 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12525 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12526 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12527 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12530 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12531 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12532 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12533 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12534 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12535 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12536 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12537 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12538 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12540 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12541 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12542 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12543 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12544 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12545 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12546 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12547 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12548 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12550 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12551 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12552 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12553 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12554 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12556 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12557 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12558 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12559 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12560 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12563 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12564 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12565 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12566 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12567 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12569 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12570 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12571 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12573 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12574 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12575 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12576 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12577 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12578 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12581 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12582 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12583 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12584 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12585 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12586 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12587 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12590 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12591 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12592 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12593 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12594 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12595 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12596 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12598 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12599 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12600 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12601 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12604 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12605 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12606 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12607 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12609 o Minor features (geoip):
12610 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12613 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12614 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12615 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12617 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12618 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12619 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12620 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12621 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12622 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12624 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12625 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12626 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12630 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12631 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12632 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12633 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12636 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12637 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12638 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12640 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12641 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12643 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12644 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12645 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12647 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12648 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12649 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12652 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12653 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12654 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12655 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12656 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12657 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12658 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12659 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12660 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12662 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12663 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12664 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12665 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12666 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12667 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12668 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12669 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12670 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12672 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12673 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12674 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12675 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12676 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12679 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12680 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12681 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12682 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12683 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12685 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12686 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12687 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12689 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12690 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12691 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12692 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12693 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12694 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12697 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12698 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12699 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12700 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12701 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12702 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12703 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12706 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12707 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12708 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12709 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12710 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12711 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12712 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12714 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12715 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12716 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12717 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12720 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12721 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12722 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12723 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12725 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12726 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12727 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12728 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12730 o Minor features (geoip):
12731 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12735 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12736 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12738 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12739 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12740 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12744 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
12745 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12746 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
12747 keep them from coming back.
12749 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
12750 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
12751 will be nearly identical to it.
12753 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
12754 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
12755 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
12756 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
12757 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
12758 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12760 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
12761 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
12762 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12764 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12765 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12766 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12767 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12768 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12769 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12770 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12771 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12772 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12773 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12774 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12775 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12776 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12777 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12778 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12780 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12781 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12782 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12784 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12785 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12786 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12788 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12789 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12790 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12791 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12792 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12793 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12794 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12796 o Minor features (geoip):
12797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12800 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12801 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12802 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12805 o Minor features (testing):
12806 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12807 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12808 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12810 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12811 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12812 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12814 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12815 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12816 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12817 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
12818 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
12819 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12821 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12822 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12823 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12824 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12825 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12826 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12827 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12830 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
12831 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
12832 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
12833 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12834 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
12835 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
12836 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12838 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12839 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
12840 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
12841 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
12842 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
12843 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12845 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12846 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12847 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
12849 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
12850 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12851 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12852 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12853 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12856 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12859 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
12860 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
12861 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
12862 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
12864 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
12865 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
12866 least January of 2020.
12868 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12869 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12870 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12871 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12874 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12875 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12876 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12877 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12878 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12879 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12880 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12882 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12883 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12884 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12885 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12886 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12887 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12888 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12890 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12891 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12892 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12894 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12895 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12896 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12898 o Minor features (geoip):
12899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12902 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12903 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12904 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12906 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12907 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12909 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12910 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12911 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12913 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12914 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12915 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12916 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12917 Patch by "junglefowl".
12920 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
12921 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
12922 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
12923 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
12924 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
12925 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
12927 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
12928 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
12929 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
12932 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12933 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12934 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12935 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12937 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
12938 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
12939 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
12940 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
12941 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12943 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12944 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
12945 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
12946 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
12947 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12949 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
12950 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12951 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12952 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12953 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12954 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12955 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12957 o Minor feature (client):
12958 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
12959 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
12961 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
12962 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
12963 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
12964 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
12966 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
12967 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
12968 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
12969 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
12970 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
12972 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
12973 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
12974 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
12975 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
12976 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
12977 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
12978 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
12979 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
12980 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
12981 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
12983 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
12984 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12985 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12987 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12988 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12990 o Minor features (relay):
12991 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
12992 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
12993 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
12994 Written by Michael Sonntag.
12996 o Minor bugfix (logging):
12997 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
12998 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
12999 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13000 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13003 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13004 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13005 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13006 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13008 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
13009 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
13010 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
13012 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
13013 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13014 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
13015 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
13016 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13017 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
13018 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
13020 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13021 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13022 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13023 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13024 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13025 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13026 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
13029 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13030 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
13031 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13033 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13034 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
13035 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
13036 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
13037 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13038 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
13039 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
13040 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
13042 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
13043 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
13044 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13046 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13047 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
13048 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
13049 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
13051 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
13052 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
13053 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
13054 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13056 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
13057 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13058 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13059 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13060 Patch by "junglefowl".
13062 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
13063 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
13064 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
13068 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
13069 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13070 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13071 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13072 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13073 version should upgrade.
13075 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
13076 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
13077 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
13078 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
13079 the set of fallback directories, and more.
13081 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13082 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13083 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
13084 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
13085 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
13086 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
13089 o Major features (security):
13090 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13091 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13092 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13093 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13094 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13095 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13097 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13098 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13099 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13100 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13102 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
13103 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
13104 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
13105 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
13106 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
13109 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13110 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13111 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13112 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13113 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13114 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13115 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13116 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13117 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13118 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13119 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13121 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13122 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13123 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13125 o Minor features (controller):
13126 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13127 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13129 o Minor features (entry guards):
13130 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13131 break regression tests.
13132 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13133 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13135 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13136 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13138 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13139 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13140 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13141 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13142 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13143 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13144 Closes ticket 20539.
13145 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13147 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13148 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13149 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13150 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13151 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13153 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13154 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13155 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13156 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13157 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13158 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13159 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13160 Closes ticket 20822.
13161 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13162 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13164 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13165 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13168 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
13169 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
13170 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
13171 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
13173 o Minor features (linting):
13174 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13175 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13177 o Minor features (logging):
13178 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13179 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13181 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13182 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13183 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13184 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13185 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13186 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13188 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13189 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13190 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13191 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13193 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13194 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13195 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13198 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
13199 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
13200 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
13201 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13203 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13204 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13205 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13206 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13207 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13209 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13210 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
13211 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
13214 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
13215 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
13216 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
13217 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
13218 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13220 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13221 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
13222 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
13224 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13225 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
13226 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13227 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
13228 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
13229 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
13230 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13231 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
13232 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13234 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
13235 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
13236 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
13237 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13239 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13240 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
13241 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
13242 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13243 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
13244 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13246 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13247 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
13248 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13249 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
13250 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
13251 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
13252 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
13253 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
13255 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13256 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
13257 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13259 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
13260 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13261 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13262 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13264 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13265 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13267 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13268 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
13269 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
13270 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
13271 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
13273 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13274 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
13275 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13277 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13278 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
13279 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
13280 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
13281 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13283 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13284 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
13285 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
13287 o Documentation (formatting):
13288 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
13289 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
13291 o Documentation (man page):
13292 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
13293 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
13296 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13297 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13298 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13299 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13300 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13301 version should upgrade.
13303 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13304 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13306 o Major bugfixes (security):
13307 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13308 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13309 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13310 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13311 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13312 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13314 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13315 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13316 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13317 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13318 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13319 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13320 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13321 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13322 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13323 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13324 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13326 o Minor features (geoip):
13327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13330 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13331 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13332 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13333 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13335 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13336 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13339 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
13340 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
13341 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
13342 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
13343 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
13344 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
13345 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
13346 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
13348 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
13350 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13351 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13352 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13353 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13354 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13357 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13358 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13359 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13360 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13361 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13362 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13363 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13364 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13367 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13368 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13369 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13370 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13371 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13373 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13374 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13375 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13376 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13377 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13378 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13379 15056; part of proposal 220.
13380 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13381 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13382 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13383 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13384 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13386 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13387 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13388 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13389 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13390 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13392 o Minor features (controller):
13393 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13394 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13397 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13398 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13399 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13402 o Minor features (directory authority):
13403 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13404 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13405 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13406 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13407 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13409 o Minor features (directory cache):
13410 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13411 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13414 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13415 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13416 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13417 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13419 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13420 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13421 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13422 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13424 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13425 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13426 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13428 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13429 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13430 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13431 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13433 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13434 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13435 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13436 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13437 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13438 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13440 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
13441 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
13442 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
13443 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
13444 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13446 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
13447 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
13448 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
13449 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
13450 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13452 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13453 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
13454 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
13455 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
13456 on all recent tor versions.
13457 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
13458 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
13459 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
13460 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13462 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
13463 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
13464 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13466 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13467 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
13468 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
13469 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
13472 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
13473 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
13474 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
13477 o Minor bugfixes (util):
13478 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
13479 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
13480 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
13481 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
13483 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
13484 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
13485 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
13486 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
13488 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13489 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
13490 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
13491 Closes ticket 19858.
13492 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
13493 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
13494 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
13495 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
13496 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
13497 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
13498 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
13499 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
13500 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13501 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
13502 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
13503 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
13504 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
13505 redundant with the similar structures used in the
13506 channel abstraction.
13507 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
13508 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
13509 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
13510 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13511 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
13512 replaced with code automatically generated by the
13516 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
13517 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13518 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
13519 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
13521 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
13522 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
13524 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
13525 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
13526 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
13527 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
13528 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
13531 o Removed features:
13532 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
13533 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
13534 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
13536 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
13537 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
13538 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
13541 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
13542 from "overcaffeinated".
13543 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
13544 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
13545 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
13546 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
13547 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
13551 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13552 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13553 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13554 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13555 become available for their systems.
13557 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13560 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13561 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13563 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13564 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13565 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13566 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13567 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13568 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13569 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13570 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13571 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13573 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13574 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13575 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13576 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13577 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13579 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13584 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13585 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13587 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13588 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13589 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13590 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13591 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13592 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13593 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13594 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13596 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13598 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13599 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13600 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13601 become available for their systems.
13603 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
13604 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13606 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
13607 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13608 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13609 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13610 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13611 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13612 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13613 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13614 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13616 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13617 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13618 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13619 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13620 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13623 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
13624 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
13625 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
13628 o Minor features (geoip):
13629 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13632 o Minor bugfix (build):
13633 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13634 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13635 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13637 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13638 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
13639 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
13640 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13642 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
13643 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
13644 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13646 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13647 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13648 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13651 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13652 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13653 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13654 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13655 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13656 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13658 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13659 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13660 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13661 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13663 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13664 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
13665 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13667 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13668 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
13669 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13670 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
13671 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
13672 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
13673 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13674 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
13675 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
13676 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13679 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13680 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13681 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13682 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13685 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13686 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13687 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13688 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13689 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13690 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13693 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13694 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13695 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13698 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13699 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13700 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13701 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13703 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13704 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13705 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13706 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13709 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13710 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13711 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13712 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13715 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13716 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13717 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13720 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13721 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13722 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13724 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13725 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13726 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13728 o Minor features (geoip):
13729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13732 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
13733 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
13734 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
13735 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
13736 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
13738 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13739 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13740 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13741 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13742 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13743 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13745 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13746 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13747 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13749 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13750 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
13751 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
13752 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
13753 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
13754 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
13756 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13757 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13758 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13760 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13761 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13763 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
13764 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
13765 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
13766 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
13767 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
13768 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
13770 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13771 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13772 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13776 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13777 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13780 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
13781 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
13782 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
13783 everyone to test this release.
13785 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
13786 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13787 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13788 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13791 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
13792 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13793 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13794 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13797 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13798 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
13799 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
13800 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
13801 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13802 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13803 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13804 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13805 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13806 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13808 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
13809 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
13810 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
13811 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13812 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
13813 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13814 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
13815 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
13816 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13817 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13818 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13819 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13821 o Minor features (geoip):
13822 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13825 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
13826 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
13827 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
13828 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
13829 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
13830 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13832 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
13833 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
13834 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
13835 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13836 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
13837 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13839 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13840 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13841 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13842 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
13845 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13846 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13847 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13848 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
13849 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
13850 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13851 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13852 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13854 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
13855 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
13856 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13858 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13859 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13860 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13861 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
13862 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13863 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
13864 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
13865 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13867 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
13868 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
13869 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
13872 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13873 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
13874 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13877 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
13878 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13879 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
13880 tickets 19287 and 19290.
13883 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
13884 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
13885 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
13886 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
13887 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
13890 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13891 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13892 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13893 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13894 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13895 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13896 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13897 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13898 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13900 o Minor features (geoip):
13901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13905 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
13906 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
13907 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
13908 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
13909 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
13912 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
13913 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
13914 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
13915 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
13916 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
13917 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
13918 be a release candidate.
13920 o Major features (security fixes):
13921 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13922 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13923 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13924 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13925 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13926 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13927 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13928 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13930 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
13931 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
13932 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
13933 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
13934 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
13935 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
13936 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
13937 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
13938 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
13939 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
13940 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
13941 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
13942 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
13943 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
13946 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13947 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
13948 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13950 o Minor features (client, directory):
13951 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13952 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13953 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13956 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13957 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13960 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13961 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13962 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13965 o Minor features (geoip):
13966 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13969 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13970 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13971 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13972 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13973 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
13975 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13976 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13977 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13978 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13981 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
13982 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13983 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13984 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13985 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13987 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13988 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13989 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13992 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
13993 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13994 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13995 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13997 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13998 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13999 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14000 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14002 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14003 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14004 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14005 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14008 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14009 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14010 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14014 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
14015 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
14017 o Required libraries:
14018 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14019 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14020 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14023 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
14024 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
14025 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
14026 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
14027 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
14028 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
14029 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
14030 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
14032 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
14033 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14034 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14035 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14036 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14037 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14039 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
14040 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14041 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14042 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14043 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14046 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14047 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
14048 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14049 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14051 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14052 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14054 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14055 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14056 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14057 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14058 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14059 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14060 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14061 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14062 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
14063 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14064 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14066 o Major features (resource management):
14067 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14068 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14069 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14070 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14071 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14072 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14074 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14075 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14076 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14077 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14079 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
14080 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
14081 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
14082 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14084 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14085 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
14086 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
14087 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
14088 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
14089 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14091 o Minor features (security, TLS):
14092 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
14093 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
14094 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
14095 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
14097 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14098 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14099 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14100 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14102 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
14103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14106 o Minor feature (port flags):
14107 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
14108 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
14109 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
14110 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
14111 18693; patch by "teor".
14113 o Minor features (directory authority):
14114 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
14115 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
14116 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
14118 o Minor features (testing):
14119 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
14120 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
14121 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
14122 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
14124 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
14125 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
14126 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
14127 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
14128 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
14129 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
14130 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
14131 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
14132 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
14134 o Minor features (Tor2web):
14135 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
14136 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
14137 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
14139 o Minor features (unit tests):
14140 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
14141 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
14142 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
14143 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
14144 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
14145 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
14146 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
14147 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
14149 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
14150 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
14151 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
14152 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
14153 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
14154 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
14155 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
14156 assertion as a test failure.
14158 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
14159 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
14160 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
14161 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
14162 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
14163 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
14165 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
14166 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
14167 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
14168 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
14169 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
14170 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
14171 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
14172 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
14173 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
14174 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
14175 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14176 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14177 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
14178 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
14179 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
14180 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14182 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14183 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14184 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14185 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14186 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14187 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14188 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14191 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14192 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
14193 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
14194 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
14195 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
14196 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
14197 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
14200 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14201 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14202 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14203 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14205 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14206 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14207 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14209 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14210 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14211 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14212 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14213 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14214 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14216 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14217 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
14218 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
14219 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
14221 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14222 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14223 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
14225 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14226 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14227 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
14228 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14229 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14230 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14232 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14233 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14234 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14236 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14237 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14238 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14241 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
14242 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
14243 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
14244 19678. Patch by teor.
14246 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14247 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
14248 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
14249 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
14250 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
14251 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
14253 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
14254 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
14258 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14259 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14260 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14261 who select public relays as their bridges.
14263 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14264 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14265 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14266 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14267 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14268 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14270 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14271 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14272 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14273 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14274 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14277 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14278 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14279 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14280 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14282 o Minor features (geoip):
14283 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14287 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
14288 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
14289 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
14290 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
14291 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14292 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14294 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
14295 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14296 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14298 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
14299 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14300 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14301 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14302 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14303 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14305 o Major features (user interface):
14306 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14307 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
14308 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
14310 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
14311 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14312 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14313 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14315 o Minor features (config):
14316 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14317 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14319 o Minor features (geoip):
14320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14323 o Minor features (user interface):
14324 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
14325 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
14328 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14329 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14330 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14332 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14333 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14334 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14336 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
14337 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
14338 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
14339 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
14342 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14343 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14346 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
14347 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14348 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14349 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14351 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14352 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14353 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14356 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14357 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14359 o Deprecated features:
14360 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14361 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14362 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14363 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14364 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14365 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14366 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14367 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14368 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14369 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14370 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14371 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14372 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14373 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14374 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14375 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14376 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14377 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14378 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14379 and TransListenAddress.
14382 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
14383 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
14386 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
14387 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
14390 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14391 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14392 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14393 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14394 encouraged to upgrade.
14396 o Directory authority changes:
14397 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14398 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14400 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14401 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14402 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14403 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14404 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14405 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14407 o Minor features (geoip):
14408 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14411 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14412 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14413 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14416 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14417 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14418 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14419 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14422 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
14423 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
14424 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
14425 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
14426 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
14427 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
14428 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
14429 security, correctness, and performance.
14431 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
14433 o New system requirements:
14434 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14435 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14436 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14437 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14438 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14439 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14440 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14441 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14443 o Major features (build, hardening):
14444 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14445 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14446 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14447 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14448 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14449 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14450 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14451 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14452 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14454 o Major features (compilation):
14455 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14456 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14457 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14458 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14460 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14461 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14462 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14464 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14465 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14466 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14467 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14468 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14469 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14470 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14471 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14473 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14474 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14475 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14476 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14477 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14478 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14479 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14481 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
14482 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
14483 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
14484 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
14485 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
14486 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
14487 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14489 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
14490 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
14491 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
14492 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
14493 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
14495 o Minor features (build, hardening):
14496 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
14497 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
14498 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
14499 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
14500 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
14501 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
14502 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
14503 Closes ticket 18895.
14505 o Minor features (code safety):
14506 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
14507 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
14510 o Minor features (controller):
14511 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
14512 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
14513 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
14514 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
14515 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
14516 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
14517 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
14518 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
14520 o Minor features (directory authority):
14521 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
14522 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
14523 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
14524 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
14525 Implements ticket 18624.
14526 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
14527 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
14528 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
14531 o Minor features (hidden service):
14532 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
14533 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
14534 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
14537 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
14538 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
14539 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
14540 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
14541 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
14542 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
14543 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
14544 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
14545 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
14546 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
14547 Closes ticket 18365.
14549 o Minor features (logging):
14550 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
14551 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14552 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
14553 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
14554 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
14555 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
14556 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
14557 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
14558 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
14559 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
14561 o Minor features (performance):
14562 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
14563 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
14564 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
14565 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
14566 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
14567 Closes ticket 18815.
14569 o Minor features (relay, usability):
14570 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
14571 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
14572 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
14573 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
14576 o Minor features (testing):
14577 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
14578 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14579 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
14580 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
14581 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
14582 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
14583 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
14584 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
14587 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14588 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
14589 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
14590 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
14591 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14593 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14594 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14595 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14596 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14597 patch from "cypherpunks".
14599 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
14600 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
14601 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14604 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
14605 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14606 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14608 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14609 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14610 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14611 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14612 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14613 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14614 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14615 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14617 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14618 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
14619 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14620 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
14621 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
14622 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
14623 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
14625 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
14626 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14627 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14630 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14631 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14632 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14634 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14635 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14636 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14639 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14640 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14641 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14642 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14645 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14646 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14647 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14649 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14650 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14651 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14654 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14655 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14656 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14657 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14658 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14659 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
14660 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14661 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14662 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14665 o Minor bugfixes (time):
14666 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
14667 bugfix on all released tor versions.
14668 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
14669 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
14670 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
14671 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14674 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
14675 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
14676 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
14677 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
14679 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
14680 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14682 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14683 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
14685 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
14686 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14687 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
14688 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
14691 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
14692 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
14694 o Removed features:
14695 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
14696 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
14697 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
14698 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
14699 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
14700 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
14701 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
14704 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
14705 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
14706 command-line options to enable them.
14707 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
14708 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
14711 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14713 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14715 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14716 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14717 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14718 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14719 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14720 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14722 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
14724 o Minor features (geoip):
14725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14728 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14729 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
14730 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14732 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14733 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
14734 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
14735 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
14737 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14738 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14739 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14740 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14741 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14742 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14743 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14744 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14747 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
14748 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
14749 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
14750 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
14751 against previous versions.
14753 o Directory authority changes:
14754 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14756 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
14757 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
14758 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
14759 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
14761 o Minor features (build):
14762 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14763 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
14764 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14765 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14766 Patch from intrigeri.
14768 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
14769 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
14770 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
14773 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
14774 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
14775 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
14776 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
14777 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
14780 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14781 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
14782 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
14783 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14784 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
14785 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
14786 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14788 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
14789 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14790 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14791 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14793 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14794 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
14795 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
14796 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
14797 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
14798 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14800 o Fallback directory list:
14801 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
14802 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
14803 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
14804 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
14805 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
14806 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
14807 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
14808 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
14809 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
14812 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
14813 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14814 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
14815 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
14818 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14819 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14820 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14821 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14823 o Minor features (build):
14824 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14825 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
14827 o Minor features (geoip):
14828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14831 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14832 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14833 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14835 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14836 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14837 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14838 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14842 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
14843 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
14844 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
14845 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
14846 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
14849 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
14850 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14851 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14852 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14853 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14855 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
14856 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
14857 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
14858 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
14859 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
14860 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
14862 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
14863 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
14864 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
14865 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14867 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
14868 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
14869 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
14870 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
14871 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
14872 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
14873 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
14875 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
14876 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
14878 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
14879 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
14880 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
14882 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14883 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
14884 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
14885 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
14886 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
14887 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14890 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
14891 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
14892 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
14895 o Major bugfixes (key management):
14896 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14897 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14898 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14899 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14900 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14901 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14904 o Major bugfixes (testing):
14905 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
14906 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14907 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
14908 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14910 o Minor features (clients):
14911 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
14912 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
14913 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
14915 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
14916 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
14917 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
14918 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
14919 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
14920 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
14921 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
14922 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
14923 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
14924 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
14926 o Minor features (geoip):
14927 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14930 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
14931 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
14932 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14935 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14936 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14937 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14939 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14940 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
14941 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
14943 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14944 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14946 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14947 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14950 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14951 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
14952 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
14953 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
14954 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14955 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
14956 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
14957 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14959 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14960 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14961 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14962 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14963 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14965 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
14966 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
14967 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
14968 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14969 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14970 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
14973 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14974 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14975 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14976 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14977 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14978 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14980 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14981 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14982 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14983 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14984 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
14985 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14986 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
14987 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14989 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14990 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14991 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14992 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14994 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14995 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14996 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14997 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14998 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14999 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
15002 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15003 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
15004 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
15006 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
15007 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
15008 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15010 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15011 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
15012 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15014 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15015 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
15016 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
15017 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15018 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
15019 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
15020 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15022 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
15023 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
15024 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
15025 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15028 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15029 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15030 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15031 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15034 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
15035 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
15036 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
15037 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
15038 directory support should also be much improved.
15040 o New system requirements:
15041 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15042 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15043 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15044 longer runs with, these versions.
15045 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15046 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15047 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15049 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15050 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15051 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15052 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15053 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15055 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15056 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15057 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15058 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15059 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15061 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
15062 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
15063 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
15064 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
15065 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
15067 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15068 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15069 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15070 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15072 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
15073 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
15074 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15075 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
15076 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15078 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
15079 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
15080 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
15081 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
15082 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
15083 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15086 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15087 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15088 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15090 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
15091 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
15092 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
15093 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
15096 o Major bugfixes (voting):
15097 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15098 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15099 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15100 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15102 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15103 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15104 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15105 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15106 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15107 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15108 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15109 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15110 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15111 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15113 o Minor features (security, win32):
15114 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15115 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15118 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15119 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15120 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15121 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15123 o Minor features (build):
15124 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15125 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15126 Steven Chamberlain.
15128 o Minor features (code hardening):
15129 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15130 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15131 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15134 o Minor features (crypto):
15135 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15136 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15139 o Minor features (geoip):
15140 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15143 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15144 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15145 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15146 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15147 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15149 o Minor features (IPv6):
15150 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15151 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15152 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15153 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15154 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15155 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15156 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15158 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15159 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15160 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15161 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15162 while fixing 18548.
15164 o Minor features (robustness):
15165 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15166 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15167 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15169 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15170 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15171 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15172 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15173 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15174 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15175 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15178 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
15179 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
15180 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
15181 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
15182 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15184 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
15185 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
15186 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
15187 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
15189 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15190 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15191 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15193 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15194 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15195 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15196 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
15197 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
15198 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15200 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
15201 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
15202 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
15203 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
15204 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15206 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15207 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
15208 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
15209 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
15212 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15213 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
15214 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15216 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
15217 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
15218 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
15219 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15221 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15222 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
15223 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
15224 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
15225 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
15226 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15228 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15229 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
15230 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
15231 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
15233 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
15234 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
15235 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
15236 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
15237 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
15239 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
15240 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
15241 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
15242 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
15243 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
15244 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
15245 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
15246 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
15247 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
15250 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
15251 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
15252 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
15253 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15255 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
15256 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
15257 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
15259 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15260 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
15261 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
15262 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15263 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
15264 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
15265 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15266 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
15267 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15269 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15270 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
15271 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
15272 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15273 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
15274 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
15275 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
15276 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
15277 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
15278 Christian, patch by teor.
15280 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
15281 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
15282 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
15283 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
15285 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
15286 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
15287 patch by "cypherpunks".
15288 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
15290 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
15291 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15293 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
15294 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
15295 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
15296 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
15298 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
15299 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
15300 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
15303 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15304 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
15305 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
15306 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15307 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15308 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15310 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
15311 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15312 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15313 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15315 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15316 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15317 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15318 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15320 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15321 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15322 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15323 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15324 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15325 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15326 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15327 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15328 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15331 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15332 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15333 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15335 o Removed features:
15336 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15337 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15338 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15341 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15343 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15344 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15347 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
15348 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
15349 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
15350 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
15351 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
15353 o Major features (security, Linux):
15354 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15355 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15356 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15357 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15358 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15360 o Major features (directory system):
15361 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15362 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15363 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15364 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15365 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15366 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15367 "mikeperry" and "teor".
15368 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
15369 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
15370 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
15371 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
15372 15775. Patch by "teor".
15373 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
15374 "gsathya", and "karsten".
15375 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15376 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15377 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15378 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15379 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15382 o Major key updates:
15383 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15384 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15387 o Minor features (security, clock):
15388 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15389 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15390 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15391 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
15393 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15394 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15395 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15396 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15397 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15398 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15400 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15401 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15402 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15403 Implements ticket 17026.
15404 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15405 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15406 Implements feature 17986.
15407 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15408 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15409 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15410 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15411 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15412 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15415 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15416 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15417 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15418 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15419 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15420 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15421 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15422 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15423 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15424 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15425 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15428 o Minor features (accounting):
15429 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15430 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15431 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15432 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15434 o Minor features (build):
15435 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15436 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15437 patch from "cypherpunks."
15438 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
15439 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
15440 17549, 17921, and 17984.
15442 o Minor features (controller):
15443 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15444 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15445 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15446 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15447 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15448 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15449 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15450 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15453 o Minor features (crypto):
15454 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15456 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15457 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15458 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15459 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15460 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15461 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15462 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15463 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15465 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15466 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15467 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15468 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15469 17864; patch by "teor".
15470 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15471 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15472 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
15474 o Minor features (geoip):
15475 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15478 o Minor features (IPv6):
15479 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15480 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15481 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15482 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15483 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
15484 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15485 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15486 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15487 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
15488 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15489 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15491 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15492 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15493 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15494 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
15496 o Minor features (logging):
15497 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15498 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15499 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15500 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15503 o Minor features (portability):
15504 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15505 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15507 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15508 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15509 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15510 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15511 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15513 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15514 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15515 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15516 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15517 Resolves ticket 17951.
15519 o Minor features (replay cache):
15520 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15521 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
15523 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15524 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15525 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15526 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15527 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15528 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15529 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15530 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15531 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15532 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15533 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15534 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15535 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15536 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15538 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15539 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15540 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15541 from "unixninja92".
15543 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15544 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
15545 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
15546 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15547 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
15548 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
15550 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
15553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15554 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
15555 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
15556 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15557 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
15558 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
15559 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15560 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
15562 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15563 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15564 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
15565 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
15566 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
15567 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
15568 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15569 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
15571 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
15572 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15574 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
15575 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
15576 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15578 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15579 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
15580 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
15581 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15583 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15584 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
15585 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15587 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15588 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
15589 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15591 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15592 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
15593 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
15594 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
15595 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
15597 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
15598 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15600 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15601 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
15602 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
15605 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15606 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
15607 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
15608 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
15609 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
15610 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
15612 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
15613 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
15614 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
15615 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
15616 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
15618 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
15619 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
15620 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
15623 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
15624 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
15625 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
15626 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15627 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
15628 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
15629 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
15630 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
15633 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15634 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
15635 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
15636 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
15637 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
15638 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15639 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
15640 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
15641 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
15642 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
15644 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
15645 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15647 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15648 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15649 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15650 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15651 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15652 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15653 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15654 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15655 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15656 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15658 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15659 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15660 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15661 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15663 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15664 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15665 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15666 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15667 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15669 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15670 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15673 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15674 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15675 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15676 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15677 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15678 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15679 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15682 o Removed features:
15683 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15684 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15685 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15686 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15687 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15690 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15691 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15692 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
15693 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15694 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15695 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15696 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15697 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15698 portion of ticket 16831.
15699 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15700 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15701 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15703 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15704 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15707 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15708 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15709 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15711 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15712 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15713 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15714 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15715 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15716 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15719 o Minor features (geoip):
15720 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15724 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15725 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15726 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15727 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15728 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15730 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15731 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15732 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15733 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15734 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15735 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15736 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15737 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15738 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15739 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15742 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15743 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15744 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15745 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15746 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15747 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15748 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15749 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15750 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15751 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15752 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15753 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15754 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15755 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15756 that would make him proud.
15758 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15760 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15761 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15762 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15763 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15764 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15765 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
15766 of Tor invoke which others.
15768 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
15771 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
15772 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
15773 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
15774 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
15775 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
15776 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
15777 release will the the official stable release.
15779 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15780 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15781 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15782 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15783 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15786 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
15787 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
15788 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15790 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15791 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15792 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15793 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
15794 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15795 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
15796 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
15798 o Minor features (geoIP):
15799 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15803 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15804 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15805 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
15806 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15807 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15808 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15810 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15811 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
15812 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
15815 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
15816 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15817 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15818 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15820 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15821 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
15822 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
15823 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
15824 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
15825 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
15826 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
15827 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
15828 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
15829 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
15830 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
15834 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
15835 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
15839 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
15840 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
15841 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
15842 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
15843 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
15845 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
15846 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
15847 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
15848 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
15850 o Major features (security, hidden services):
15851 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
15852 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
15853 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
15854 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
15855 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
15856 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
15857 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
15859 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
15860 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
15861 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
15862 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
15863 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
15864 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
15867 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
15868 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
15869 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
15870 available. Implements ticket 16535.
15871 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
15872 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
15875 o Major features (performance testing):
15876 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15877 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15878 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15880 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
15881 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
15882 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
15883 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
15885 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
15886 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
15887 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
15888 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
15889 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
15890 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
15892 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
15893 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
15895 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
15896 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
15897 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
15898 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
15899 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
15901 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
15902 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
15903 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
15904 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
15905 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
15906 own. Implements feature 15482.
15907 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
15908 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
15910 o Minor features (compilation):
15911 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
15912 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
15913 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
15914 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
15915 which started requiring ECC.
15917 o Minor features (geoip):
15918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15921 o Minor features (hidden services):
15922 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
15923 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
15924 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
15925 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
15926 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
15927 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
15928 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
15929 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
15931 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
15932 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
15933 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
15936 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
15937 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15938 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15939 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15941 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
15942 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
15943 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
15944 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
15945 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
15947 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
15948 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
15949 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
15950 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
15951 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15952 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
15953 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
15954 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
15955 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
15956 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
15957 Related to ticket 16069.
15958 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
15959 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
15960 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
15961 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
15962 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
15963 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15965 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
15966 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
15967 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15968 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
15969 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
15971 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
15972 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
15973 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15975 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
15976 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
15977 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
15978 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15980 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15981 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
15982 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
15983 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
15984 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15986 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15987 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
15988 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
15989 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
15990 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15991 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
15992 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
15993 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
15994 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
15995 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
15996 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
15999 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
16000 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
16001 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16003 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16004 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16005 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16006 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
16007 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16009 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16010 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16011 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16012 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16014 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16015 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16016 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16018 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16019 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16020 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
16021 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
16022 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
16023 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16024 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
16025 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16027 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16028 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16029 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16030 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16031 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16033 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16034 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16037 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16038 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16039 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16040 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16041 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16042 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16043 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16044 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16045 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16046 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16047 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16048 suite of other microdesc functions.
16049 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16050 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16051 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16052 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16053 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16054 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16055 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16056 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16057 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16058 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16060 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16061 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16063 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16066 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16067 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16068 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16069 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16073 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16074 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16075 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16076 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16077 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16078 Closes ticket 13338.
16079 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16080 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16081 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16082 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16083 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16084 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16087 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
16088 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
16089 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
16090 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
16091 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
16092 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16093 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
16095 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
16096 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
16097 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
16098 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
16099 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16100 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16101 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16102 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16103 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16104 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16105 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
16106 network before we begin.
16107 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
16108 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
16109 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
16110 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
16111 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
16112 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
16113 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
16114 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
16117 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
16118 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
16119 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
16120 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
16121 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
16122 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
16124 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
16125 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
16126 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
16128 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16129 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16130 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16131 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16132 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16133 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16134 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16135 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16136 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16137 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16138 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16139 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16140 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16141 part of ticket 12498.
16142 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16143 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16144 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16145 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16147 o Major features (Hidden services):
16148 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16149 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16150 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16151 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16152 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16154 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16155 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16156 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16157 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16159 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16160 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16161 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16162 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16163 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16164 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16166 o Major features (performance):
16167 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16168 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16169 Implements ticket 16467.
16170 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16171 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16172 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16173 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16175 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16176 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16177 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16178 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16179 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16180 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16182 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16183 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16184 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16185 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16186 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16187 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16188 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16189 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16192 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16193 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16194 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16195 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16196 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16197 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16198 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16201 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16202 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16203 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16204 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16205 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16206 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16208 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16209 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16210 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16211 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16212 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16213 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16214 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16215 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16218 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16219 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16220 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16221 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16222 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16223 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16224 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16226 o Minor features (client):
16227 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16228 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16229 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16231 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16232 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16233 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16234 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16235 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16236 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16237 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16240 o Minor features (control protocol):
16241 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16242 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16244 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16245 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16246 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16247 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16248 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16249 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16251 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
16252 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16253 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16255 o Minor features (hidden services):
16256 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16257 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16258 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16259 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16262 o Minor features (portability):
16263 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16264 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16265 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16267 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16268 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16269 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16270 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16272 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16273 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16274 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16275 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16277 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16278 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16279 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16280 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16281 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16282 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16284 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16285 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
16286 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
16287 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16288 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
16289 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
16290 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16292 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16293 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16294 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16296 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16297 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16298 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16299 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16301 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16302 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16303 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16304 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16306 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16307 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16310 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16311 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16312 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16313 from "cypherpunks".
16315 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16316 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
16317 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16318 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16319 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16320 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16322 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16323 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
16324 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16326 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16327 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16328 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16330 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
16331 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
16332 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16333 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
16334 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16335 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
16336 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
16337 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
16338 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16340 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16341 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16342 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16343 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16344 haven't supported that in ages.
16345 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16346 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16347 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16348 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16351 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16352 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16353 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16354 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16355 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16356 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16358 o Removed features:
16359 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16360 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16361 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16362 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16363 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16364 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16365 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16366 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16367 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16368 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16369 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16370 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16371 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16372 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16373 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16374 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16375 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16378 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
16379 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
16380 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
16381 Closes ticket 15817.
16382 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
16383 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
16385 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
16386 default as a part of "make check".
16387 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
16388 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
16389 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
16390 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
16394 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
16395 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
16396 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
16397 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
16398 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
16399 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
16401 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
16402 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16403 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16404 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16405 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16406 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16407 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16408 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16411 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16412 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16413 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16414 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16415 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16416 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16417 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16418 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16421 o Minor features (geoip):
16422 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16423 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16425 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
16426 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16427 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16428 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16429 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16430 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16432 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16433 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16434 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16435 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16438 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
16439 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
16440 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
16441 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
16442 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
16444 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16445 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16446 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
16447 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
16448 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16451 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
16452 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16453 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16454 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16455 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
16456 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
16457 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16460 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16461 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16462 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16464 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16465 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
16466 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
16467 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
16468 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16469 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16472 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16473 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16474 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16477 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
16478 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
16479 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
16480 authorities should upgrade.
16482 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16483 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16484 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16485 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16488 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16489 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16490 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16493 o Minor features (geoip):
16494 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16495 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16499 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
16500 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
16501 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
16502 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
16503 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
16504 the hidden services subsystem.
16506 o New system requirements:
16507 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16508 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16511 o Major features (controller):
16512 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16513 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16515 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16516 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16517 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16518 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16519 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16520 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16521 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16523 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16524 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16525 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16526 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16529 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16530 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16531 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16532 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16533 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16535 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16536 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16537 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16538 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16539 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16541 o Minor features (controller):
16542 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16543 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16544 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16545 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16546 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16547 Closes ticket 14845.
16548 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16549 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16550 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16552 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16553 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16554 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16555 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16557 o Minor features (geoip):
16558 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16559 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16562 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
16563 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16564 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16565 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16566 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16567 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16568 Closes ticket 15745.
16570 o Minor features (logging):
16571 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16572 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16575 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16576 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16577 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16578 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16580 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16581 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16582 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16583 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16584 Resolves ticket 15435.
16586 o Minor features (testing):
16587 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
16588 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
16589 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
16590 files. Closes ticket 15180.
16591 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
16592 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
16593 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
16594 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
16595 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
16596 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
16597 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
16598 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
16599 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
16600 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
16601 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
16602 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
16604 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16605 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
16606 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
16609 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16610 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16611 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16613 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16614 stderr, not stdout.
16616 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16617 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16618 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16619 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16620 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16621 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16622 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16623 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16625 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16626 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16627 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16629 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16630 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16631 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16634 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16635 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16636 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16638 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16639 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16641 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16642 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16643 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16644 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16647 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
16648 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16649 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16650 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16651 recent enough Clang.
16653 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16654 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16655 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16656 unsuitable for public communications.
16658 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16659 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16660 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16661 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16662 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16663 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16665 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16666 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16667 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16668 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16669 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16670 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16671 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16672 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16674 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16675 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
16676 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
16678 - Set the severity correctly when testing
16679 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
16680 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
16681 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
16682 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
16684 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16685 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16686 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16688 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16689 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16690 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16691 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16692 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16695 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16696 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16698 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16699 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16700 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16701 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16702 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16705 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16706 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16707 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16708 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16709 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16710 Closes ticket 14922.
16712 o Removed features:
16713 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16714 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16715 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16716 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16717 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16718 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16719 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16720 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16721 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16722 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16723 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16726 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
16727 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16728 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16729 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16730 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16732 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16733 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16735 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16736 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16737 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16738 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16739 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16740 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16741 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16743 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16744 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16745 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16746 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16747 Resolves ticket 15515.
16750 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
16751 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16752 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16753 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16754 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16756 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16757 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16759 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16760 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16761 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16762 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16763 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16764 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16765 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16767 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16768 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16769 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16770 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16771 Resolves ticket 15515.
16774 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
16775 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
16776 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
16777 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
16778 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16780 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
16781 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16783 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16784 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16785 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16786 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16787 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16788 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16789 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16791 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16792 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16793 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16794 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16795 Resolves ticket 15515.
16796 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
16797 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
16798 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
16802 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
16803 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
16805 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
16806 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
16807 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
16808 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
16809 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
16810 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
16811 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
16812 bugs should be addressed.
16814 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16815 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16816 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16817 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16819 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
16820 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
16821 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
16823 o Major bugfixes (client):
16824 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
16825 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
16828 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16829 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
16830 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
16831 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
16832 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
16833 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16835 o Major bugfixes (portability):
16836 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
16837 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
16840 o Minor features (heartbeat):
16841 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
16842 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
16843 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
16844 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
16846 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16847 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16848 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16851 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16852 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16854 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16855 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16856 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16858 o Directory authority changes:
16859 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16860 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16861 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16862 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16863 closes ticket 14487.
16865 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16866 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16867 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16870 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16871 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16872 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16873 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16874 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16875 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16876 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16877 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16879 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16880 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16881 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16882 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16884 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16885 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16886 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16887 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16889 o Minor features (controller):
16890 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16891 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16892 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16894 o Minor features (geoip):
16895 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16896 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16899 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16900 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16901 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16902 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16903 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16904 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16907 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16908 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16909 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16911 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16912 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16913 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16914 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16915 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16916 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16917 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16918 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16920 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16921 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16922 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16924 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16925 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16926 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16927 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16928 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16932 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16933 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16934 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16937 o Directory authority changes:
16938 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16939 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16940 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16941 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16942 closes ticket 14487.
16944 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16945 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16946 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16947 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16949 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16950 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16951 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16952 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16953 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16954 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16955 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16956 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16958 o Minor features (geoip):
16959 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16960 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16963 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
16964 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
16965 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
16966 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
16967 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
16969 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16970 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16971 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16974 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16975 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16976 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
16977 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16978 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16979 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16980 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16981 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16983 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
16984 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
16985 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
16988 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16989 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
16990 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
16992 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
16993 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16994 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16995 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16996 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16998 o Minor features (controller):
16999 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17000 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17001 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17003 o Minor features (geoip):
17004 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17005 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17008 o Minor features (logs):
17009 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17012 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17013 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17014 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17015 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17016 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17017 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17018 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17019 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17020 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17022 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17023 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17025 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
17028 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17029 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
17030 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
17032 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
17033 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
17034 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
17035 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17036 from "cypherpunks".
17037 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
17038 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
17041 o Directory authority IP change:
17042 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17043 closes ticket 14487.
17046 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
17047 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
17048 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
17052 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
17053 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
17054 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
17055 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
17056 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
17057 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
17059 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
17060 the next version will be a release candidate.
17062 o Deprecated versions:
17063 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17064 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17066 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17067 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17068 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17069 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17070 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17071 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17073 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17074 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17075 Implements ticket 11485.
17077 o Major features (changed defaults):
17078 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17079 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17080 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17081 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17082 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17083 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17085 o Major features (directory system):
17086 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17087 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17088 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17089 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17090 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17091 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17092 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17093 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17094 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17095 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17096 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17097 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17099 o Major features (guards):
17100 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17101 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17102 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17103 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17104 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17106 o Major features (performance):
17107 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17108 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17109 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17110 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17111 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17112 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17113 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17114 Implements ticket 9682.
17116 o Major features (relay):
17117 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17118 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17119 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17121 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17122 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17123 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17124 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17126 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17127 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17128 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17129 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17130 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17131 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17132 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17134 o Minor features (build):
17135 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17136 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17137 Resolves ticket 13037.
17139 o Minor features (controller):
17140 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17141 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17143 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17144 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17145 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17146 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17147 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17148 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17150 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17151 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17152 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17153 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17154 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17155 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17156 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17157 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17158 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17159 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17161 o Minor features (geoip):
17162 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
17163 GeoLite2 Country database.
17165 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17166 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17167 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17168 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17170 o Minor features (hidden service):
17171 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17172 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17173 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17174 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17175 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17176 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17177 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17178 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17180 o Minor features (interface):
17181 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17182 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17183 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17185 o Minor features (logging):
17186 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17187 Resolves ticket 6852.
17188 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17189 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17190 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17192 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17193 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17195 o Minor features (stability):
17196 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17197 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17200 o Minor features (systemd):
17201 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17202 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17204 o Minor features (testing networks):
17205 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17206 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17207 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17208 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17209 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17210 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17212 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17213 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17214 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17215 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17216 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17218 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17219 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17220 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17221 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17222 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17224 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
17225 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17226 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17227 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17228 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17229 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17230 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17231 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17233 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17234 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17235 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17236 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17237 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17238 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17239 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17240 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17242 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17243 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17244 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17247 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17248 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17249 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17250 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17251 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17253 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17254 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17255 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17256 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17257 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17260 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17261 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17262 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17263 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17264 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
17265 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
17266 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17267 Addresses ticket 14188.
17268 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17269 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17270 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17271 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17272 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17273 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17274 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
17275 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
17276 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17278 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17279 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17280 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17281 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17282 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17283 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17284 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
17285 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17287 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17288 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17289 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17290 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17291 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17292 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17293 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17294 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17295 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17296 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17297 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17298 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17299 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17301 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17302 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17303 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17304 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17305 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17306 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17307 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17308 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17309 state, and key files.
17310 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17311 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17314 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17315 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17316 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17317 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17318 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17319 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17320 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17321 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17322 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
17323 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
17324 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17326 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17327 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17328 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17329 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
17331 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
17332 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17334 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17335 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17336 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17337 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17338 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17339 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17341 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
17342 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
17343 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
17344 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17345 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
17346 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
17347 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17348 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
17349 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
17350 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17352 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17353 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17354 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17356 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
17357 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
17359 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17360 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17361 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17362 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17363 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17365 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17366 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17367 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17368 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17371 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17372 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17373 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17376 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17377 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17378 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17380 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17381 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
17382 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17383 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17384 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17385 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17386 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17388 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
17389 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
17392 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
17393 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
17394 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
17396 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
17397 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
17398 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
17401 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17402 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
17403 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
17404 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
17405 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
17406 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
17407 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
17408 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
17409 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
17411 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
17412 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
17414 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
17418 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
17419 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
17420 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
17421 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17422 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
17423 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17425 o Downgraded warnings:
17426 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
17427 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
17429 o Removed features:
17430 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
17431 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
17432 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
17433 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
17434 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
17438 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
17439 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17440 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
17441 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
17442 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
17443 (existing behavior).
17444 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
17445 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
17446 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
17447 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
17448 Closes ticket 14107.
17449 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
17450 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17451 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
17452 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
17454 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
17455 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
17456 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17459 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
17460 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
17461 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
17462 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
17463 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
17464 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
17466 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
17467 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
17468 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
17469 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
17471 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
17472 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17473 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17474 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17475 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17476 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17478 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17479 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17480 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17481 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17482 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17483 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17484 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17487 o Major features (hidden services):
17488 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17489 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17490 Closes ticket 13667.
17491 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17492 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17493 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17494 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17495 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17496 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17497 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17498 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17499 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17500 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17501 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17503 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17504 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17505 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17506 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17507 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17508 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17511 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17512 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17513 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17514 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17515 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17516 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17518 o Directory authority changes:
17519 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17520 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17521 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17523 o Major removed features:
17524 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17525 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17526 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17527 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17529 o Minor features (client):
17530 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17531 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17532 Resolves ticket 13315.
17534 o Minor features (controller):
17535 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17536 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17539 o Minor features (geoip):
17540 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17543 o Minor features (hidden services):
17544 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17545 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17546 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17547 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17548 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17549 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17551 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17552 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17553 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17555 o Minor features (systemd):
17556 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17557 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17558 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17559 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17561 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17562 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17563 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17564 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17565 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17568 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17569 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17570 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17571 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17572 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17574 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17575 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17576 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17579 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17580 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17581 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17582 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17583 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17585 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17586 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17587 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17590 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17591 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17592 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17593 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17595 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17596 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17599 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17600 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17601 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17602 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17603 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17604 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17605 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
17606 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
17607 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17608 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17609 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17610 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17611 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17612 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17615 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17616 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17617 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17618 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17619 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17620 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17622 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17623 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17624 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17625 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17627 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17628 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17630 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17631 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17632 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17633 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17636 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17637 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17638 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17639 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17640 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17641 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17643 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17644 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17645 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17646 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17647 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17648 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17649 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17650 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17651 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17652 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17653 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17654 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17655 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17656 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17657 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17658 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17659 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17660 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17661 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17662 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17663 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17664 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17665 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17666 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17667 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17668 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17669 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17670 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17671 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
17672 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
17673 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
17674 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
17676 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
17677 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
17678 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
17679 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
17680 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17682 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17683 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
17684 with a function instead.
17685 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
17686 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
17687 Closes ticket 13172.
17688 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
17689 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
17690 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
17691 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
17692 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
17693 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
17694 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
17695 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
17696 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
17697 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
17698 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
17699 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
17703 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
17704 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
17705 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
17706 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
17707 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
17708 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
17709 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
17710 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
17711 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
17712 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
17713 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
17714 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
17717 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
17718 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
17719 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
17720 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
17721 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
17722 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
17724 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
17728 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
17729 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
17730 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
17731 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
17732 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
17733 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
17734 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
17735 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
17736 of introducing infinite download loops.
17738 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
17739 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
17740 with 0.2.5.x for now.
17742 o New compiler and system requirements:
17743 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17744 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17745 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17746 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17748 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17749 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17750 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17751 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17752 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17753 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17754 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17755 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17756 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17758 o Removed platform support:
17759 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
17760 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
17761 Closes ticket 11446.
17763 o Major features (bridges):
17764 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17765 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17766 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17769 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17770 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17771 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17772 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17775 o Major features (directory system):
17776 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17777 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17778 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17779 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17781 o Major features (sample torrc):
17782 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17783 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17784 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17785 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17786 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17787 generally useful "sample torrc".
17789 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17790 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17791 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17793 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17794 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17795 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17796 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17797 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17799 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17800 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17801 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17802 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17804 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17805 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17806 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17807 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17808 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17809 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17812 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17813 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17814 document. Implements feature 10427.
17816 o Minor features (client):
17817 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17818 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17819 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17820 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17822 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17823 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17824 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17825 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17826 argument more than once.
17827 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17828 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17829 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17830 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17831 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17832 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17834 o Minor features (logging):
17835 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17836 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17837 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17838 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17839 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17840 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17841 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17842 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17843 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17845 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17846 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17847 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17848 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17850 o Minor features (relay):
17851 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17852 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17853 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17855 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17856 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17857 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17858 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17860 o Minor features (testing networks):
17861 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17862 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17863 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17864 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17865 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17868 o Minor features (validation):
17869 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17870 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17871 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17872 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17873 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17874 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17875 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17876 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17878 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17879 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17880 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17881 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17883 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17884 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17885 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17886 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17888 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17889 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17890 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17892 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17893 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17894 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17896 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17897 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17898 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17899 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17900 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17901 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17902 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17904 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17905 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17906 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17907 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17908 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17909 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17910 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17911 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17912 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17914 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17915 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17916 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17917 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17918 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17920 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17921 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17922 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17924 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17925 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17926 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17927 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17928 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17930 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17931 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17932 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17933 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17934 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17935 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17936 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17937 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17938 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17939 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17940 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17943 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17944 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17945 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17946 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17947 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17949 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17950 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17951 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17952 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17953 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17956 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17957 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17958 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17959 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
17960 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
17961 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17963 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17964 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
17965 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
17966 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17968 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
17969 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
17970 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
17971 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17973 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
17974 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
17975 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
17976 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
17979 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
17980 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
17981 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17984 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17985 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17986 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17987 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17988 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17991 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17992 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
17993 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
17995 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
17996 Resolves ticket 12205.
17997 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
17998 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
17999 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18000 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18002 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18003 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18004 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18006 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18007 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18009 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18010 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18011 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18012 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18013 or_options_t structure.
18016 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18017 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18018 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18019 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18022 o Removed features:
18023 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18024 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18025 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18026 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18027 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18028 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18029 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18030 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18031 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18033 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18034 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18036 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18037 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18038 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18039 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18040 anymore, and ignore it.
18043 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18044 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18045 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18046 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18047 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18048 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18049 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18050 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18051 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18052 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18053 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18054 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18056 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18057 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18058 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18060 o Distribution (systemd):
18061 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18062 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18063 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18064 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18065 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18067 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18068 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18070 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18071 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18072 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18073 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18074 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18075 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18076 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18077 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18078 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18079 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18081 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18082 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18083 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18084 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18087 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18088 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18089 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18091 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18093 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18094 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18095 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18098 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18099 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18101 It adds several new security features, including improved
18102 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18103 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18104 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18105 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18106 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18107 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18108 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18109 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18110 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18111 and features mentioned below.
18113 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18114 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18116 o Deprecated versions:
18117 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18118 attention for some while.
18121 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
18122 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18123 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18124 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18125 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18126 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
18128 o Major security fixes:
18129 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18130 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18131 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18133 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18134 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18135 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18136 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18139 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
18140 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
18141 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
18142 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18144 o Compilation fixes:
18145 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18146 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18147 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18149 o Downgraded warnings:
18150 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18151 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18154 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
18155 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18156 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18157 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18158 (which does affect Tor).
18160 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18161 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18162 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18163 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18165 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18166 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18167 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18168 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18171 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
18172 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18173 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18174 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18175 the directory authorities.
18178 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18179 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18180 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18181 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18182 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18183 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18184 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18185 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18186 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18187 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18188 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18189 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18191 o Directory authority changes:
18192 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18195 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
18196 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18197 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18198 the directory authorities.
18201 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18202 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18203 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18204 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18205 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18206 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18207 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18208 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18209 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18210 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18211 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18212 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18214 o Directory authority changes:
18215 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18217 o Minor features (geoip):
18218 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18222 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
18223 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
18224 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
18225 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
18226 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
18228 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
18229 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
18230 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
18231 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
18232 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
18233 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
18234 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18235 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
18236 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
18237 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
18238 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
18239 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
18240 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
18241 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18242 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18243 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18245 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18246 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18247 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18248 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18249 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18250 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18251 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18252 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18254 o Minor features (bridge):
18255 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18256 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18258 o Minor features (geoip):
18259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18262 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18263 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
18264 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
18265 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
18266 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
18267 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
18268 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18269 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18270 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18271 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18272 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18273 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18274 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18275 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18276 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18278 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18279 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18280 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18281 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18282 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18284 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18285 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
18286 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18287 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
18288 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18291 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18292 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
18293 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18294 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
18295 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18296 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18297 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18298 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18299 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18300 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18301 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18304 o Distribution (systemd):
18305 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
18306 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18307 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18308 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18309 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18310 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18311 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18312 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18313 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18317 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18318 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18320 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18324 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
18325 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
18326 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
18327 us closer to a release candidate.
18329 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
18330 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18331 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18332 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18333 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18335 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18336 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18337 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18338 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18339 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18340 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18341 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18342 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18343 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18347 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18348 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18349 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18350 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18351 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18352 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18353 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18354 to build circuits".
18357 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18358 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18359 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18360 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18361 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18362 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18363 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18364 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18366 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
18368 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18369 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18370 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18371 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18372 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18373 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18374 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18375 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18376 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18377 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18380 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
18381 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
18382 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18383 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
18385 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18386 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18387 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18390 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18391 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18392 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18393 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18396 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18397 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18398 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18399 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18400 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18401 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18402 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18403 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18404 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18405 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18408 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18409 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18410 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18411 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18412 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18413 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18414 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18415 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18419 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18420 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18421 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18422 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18423 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18424 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18425 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18426 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18427 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18428 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18429 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18430 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18431 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18438 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
18439 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
18440 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
18441 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
18442 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
18443 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
18446 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
18447 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
18448 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
18449 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
18450 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
18451 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
18452 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
18453 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
18454 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
18455 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
18456 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
18457 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
18458 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18460 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18461 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18462 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18463 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18466 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18467 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18468 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18470 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18471 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18472 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18473 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18474 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18475 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18476 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18477 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18478 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18479 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18480 router's identity is not forgeable.
18482 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18483 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18484 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18485 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18486 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18487 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18488 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18489 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18490 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18491 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18493 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18494 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18495 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18496 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18499 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18500 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18501 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18502 help diagnose bug 7164.
18503 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18504 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18505 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18506 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18507 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18509 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18510 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18511 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18512 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18513 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18514 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18515 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18517 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18518 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18519 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18520 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18521 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18522 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18523 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18525 o Minor features (security):
18526 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
18527 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
18528 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
18529 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
18531 o Minor features (build):
18532 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18533 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18534 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18536 o Minor features (other):
18537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18540 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18541 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
18542 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
18543 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18544 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18546 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18547 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18548 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18549 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18550 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18551 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18552 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18553 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18554 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18555 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18556 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
18557 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
18559 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18560 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
18561 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18562 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18563 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18564 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18565 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18566 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18567 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18568 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
18569 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18570 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18571 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18572 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18573 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18574 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18575 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18576 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18579 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
18580 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18581 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18582 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18583 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18584 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18585 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18587 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
18588 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
18589 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18590 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
18591 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18592 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
18593 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18594 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
18595 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
18597 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
18598 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
18600 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
18601 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
18603 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
18604 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
18605 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18606 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
18607 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
18608 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18609 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
18610 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
18611 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
18613 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
18614 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
18615 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
18616 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
18617 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
18618 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18619 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
18620 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
18621 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18622 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
18623 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
18624 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18625 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
18626 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
18627 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
18628 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
18629 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
18630 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18632 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18633 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
18634 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
18635 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
18636 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
18637 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18638 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
18639 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
18640 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
18643 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18644 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18645 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18646 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18647 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18649 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18650 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
18651 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
18652 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
18654 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
18655 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
18656 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
18657 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18658 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
18659 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
18660 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
18661 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
18663 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18664 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
18665 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
18666 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
18669 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
18670 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
18671 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
18672 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
18673 versions. Found by "skruffy".
18674 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
18675 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
18676 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
18679 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
18680 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
18681 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
18682 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
18685 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
18686 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
18687 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
18688 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
18690 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
18691 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
18692 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
18694 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
18695 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
18696 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18698 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18699 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
18700 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18701 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18702 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18706 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
18707 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
18708 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
18709 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
18712 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
18713 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
18714 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
18715 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
18717 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
18718 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
18720 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
18721 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
18722 caches don't get confused.
18725 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
18726 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
18727 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
18728 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
18729 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
18732 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
18733 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
18734 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
18735 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
18736 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
18737 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
18741 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18742 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18743 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18744 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18745 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18746 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18747 of RAM, and several others.
18749 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18750 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18751 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18752 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18753 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18755 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18756 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18757 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18758 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18761 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18762 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18763 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18764 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18765 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18766 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18767 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18768 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18769 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18770 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18771 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18772 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18773 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18774 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18775 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18776 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18777 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18778 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18779 Resolves ticket 11438.
18781 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18782 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18783 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18784 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18785 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18786 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18788 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18789 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18790 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18792 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18793 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18794 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18796 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18797 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18798 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18799 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18801 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18802 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18803 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18806 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18807 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18810 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18811 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18812 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18813 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18816 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18817 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18818 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18819 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18821 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18822 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18823 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18824 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18826 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18827 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18828 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
18832 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
18833 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
18834 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
18835 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
18836 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
18837 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
18838 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
18839 the Linux sandbox code.
18841 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
18842 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
18843 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
18845 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
18846 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18848 o Major features (security):
18849 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18850 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18851 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18852 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18853 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18854 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18855 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18856 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18858 o Major features (relay performance):
18859 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18860 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18861 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18862 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18863 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18864 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18865 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18866 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18867 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18868 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18870 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18871 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
18872 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
18873 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
18874 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
18875 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
18876 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
18878 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
18879 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
18881 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
18882 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18883 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18884 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18885 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18886 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18887 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18888 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18889 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18890 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18891 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18892 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18893 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18894 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18895 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18896 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18897 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18898 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18899 Resolves ticket 11438.
18901 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
18902 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18903 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18904 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18906 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18907 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18908 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18909 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18910 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18911 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18912 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18913 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18914 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18915 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18917 o Minor features (security):
18918 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18919 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18920 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18921 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18924 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18925 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18926 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18927 Resolves ticket 5286.
18928 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18929 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18930 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18931 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18932 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18933 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18934 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18935 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18936 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18938 o Minor features (relay):
18939 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18940 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18941 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18943 o Minor features (controller):
18944 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18945 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18947 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18948 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18949 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18951 o Minor features (bridge client):
18952 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18953 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18954 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18956 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18957 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18958 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18959 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18960 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18961 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18963 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18964 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18965 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18966 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18968 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18969 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18970 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18971 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18974 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
18975 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18976 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18978 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18979 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18980 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18981 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18982 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
18983 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
18984 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18986 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18987 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
18988 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
18989 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18990 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18991 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18992 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18993 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
18994 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
18995 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
18996 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18997 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18998 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19001 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19002 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19003 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19004 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19005 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19007 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19008 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19009 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19012 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19013 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19014 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19016 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19017 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
19018 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19020 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19021 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19022 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19023 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19025 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19026 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
19027 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19028 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19029 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19031 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19032 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19033 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19035 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19036 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19037 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19038 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
19039 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19040 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
19041 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
19042 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
19044 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19045 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19046 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19047 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19049 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19050 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19051 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19054 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19055 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19056 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19057 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19058 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19059 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19060 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19061 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19062 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19063 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19064 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19065 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19066 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19068 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19069 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19070 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19071 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19072 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19073 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19074 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19075 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19079 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
19080 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
19081 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
19082 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19083 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19084 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19085 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19086 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19088 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19090 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19091 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19092 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19093 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19094 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19097 o Deprecated versions:
19098 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19099 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
19100 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
19101 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
19104 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19105 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19106 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19107 Patch from Dana Koch.
19110 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19111 Resolves ticket 11070.
19114 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
19115 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
19116 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
19117 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
19118 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
19121 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
19122 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
19124 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19125 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19126 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19127 streams attached to each circuit.
19129 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19130 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19131 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19132 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19133 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19134 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19135 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19136 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19137 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19138 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19139 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19140 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19141 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19143 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
19144 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
19145 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19147 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19148 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19149 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19150 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19151 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19152 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19153 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19154 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19155 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19157 o Minor features (other):
19158 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19159 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19160 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19161 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19162 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19163 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19164 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19165 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19166 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19169 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
19170 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19171 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19172 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19173 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19174 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19175 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19176 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19178 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19179 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19180 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19181 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19182 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19183 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19184 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19185 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19187 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19188 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19189 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19190 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19191 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19192 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19193 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19194 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19195 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19196 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19197 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19198 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19200 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19201 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19202 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19203 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19204 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19205 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19206 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19207 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19208 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19209 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19210 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19211 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
19212 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
19213 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
19215 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19216 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19218 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
19219 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
19220 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
19221 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
19222 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
19223 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
19224 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19225 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
19226 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
19227 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
19228 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
19229 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19230 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
19231 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
19233 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19234 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
19235 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
19236 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19239 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19240 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19241 the rest of bug 10841.
19244 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19245 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19246 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19247 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19248 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19249 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19250 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19251 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19252 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19253 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19254 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19255 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19256 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19257 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19258 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19260 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19261 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19262 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19264 o Test infrastructure:
19265 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19266 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19267 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19268 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19271 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19272 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19273 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19274 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19276 o Major features (client security):
19277 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19278 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19279 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19280 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19281 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19282 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19285 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19286 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19287 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19288 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19290 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19291 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19292 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19293 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19294 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19297 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19298 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19300 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19301 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19302 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19303 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19304 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19305 GeoLite2 Country database.
19308 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19309 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19310 bugfix on every released Tor.
19311 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19312 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19313 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19314 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19315 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19316 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19317 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19318 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19319 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19320 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19321 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19322 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19323 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19324 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19325 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19327 o Documentation fixes:
19328 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19329 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19332 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
19333 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
19334 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
19335 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
19336 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
19337 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
19338 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
19339 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
19341 o Major features (client security):
19342 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19343 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19344 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19345 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19346 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19347 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19348 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19349 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19350 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19351 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19352 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19353 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19355 o Major features (bridges):
19356 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19357 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19358 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19359 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19360 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19361 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19362 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19363 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19366 o Major features (other):
19367 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19368 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19369 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19370 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19371 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19372 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19373 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19374 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19375 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19376 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19377 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19378 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19381 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19382 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19383 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19384 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19385 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19386 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19387 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19389 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19390 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19391 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19392 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19393 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19394 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19395 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19396 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19397 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19399 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19400 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19401 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19402 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19403 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19404 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19406 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19407 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19408 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19409 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19410 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19411 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19414 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19415 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19416 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19417 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19418 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19419 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19420 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19422 o Minor features (security):
19423 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19424 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19427 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19428 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19429 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19430 Implements ticket 10060.
19431 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19432 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19433 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19435 o Minor features (controller):
19436 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19437 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19438 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19439 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19440 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19443 o Minor features (build):
19444 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19445 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19446 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19447 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19448 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19449 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19450 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19452 o Minor features (testing):
19453 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19454 the unit test scripts.
19455 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19456 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19457 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19458 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19460 o Minor features (log messages):
19461 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19462 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19463 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19464 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19465 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19466 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19467 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19468 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19469 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19470 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19472 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19473 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19474 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19475 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19476 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19477 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19478 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19479 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19480 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19481 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19483 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19484 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
19485 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
19486 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
19489 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19490 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19491 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19492 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19493 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19495 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19496 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19497 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19498 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19499 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19500 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19501 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19503 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19504 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19505 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19506 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19507 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19508 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19509 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19510 Reported by "mr-4".
19511 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19512 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19513 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19514 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19516 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19517 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19518 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19519 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19520 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19521 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19522 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
19523 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
19524 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
19525 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
19526 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19528 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19529 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19530 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19531 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19532 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19533 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19534 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19535 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19536 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19537 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19539 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19540 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19541 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19542 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19545 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19546 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19547 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19548 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19549 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
19550 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
19552 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
19553 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19555 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19556 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19557 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19558 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19560 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19561 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19562 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19563 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19564 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19565 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19566 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19567 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19568 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19569 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19570 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19571 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19572 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19573 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19575 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19576 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19577 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19578 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19579 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19580 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19582 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19583 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19584 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19585 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19586 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19587 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19588 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19589 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19590 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19591 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19592 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19593 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19595 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19596 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19597 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19598 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19599 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19600 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19601 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19602 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19603 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19604 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19605 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19606 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19607 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19608 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19609 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19610 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19613 o Removed code and features:
19614 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19615 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19616 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19617 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19618 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19619 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19621 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19622 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19623 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19624 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19625 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19626 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19628 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19629 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19630 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19631 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19632 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19633 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19634 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19635 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19636 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
19637 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
19638 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
19641 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
19642 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19643 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19644 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19645 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19647 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19648 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19649 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19650 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19651 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19652 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19653 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19656 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19657 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19658 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19661 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19662 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19663 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19664 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19665 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19666 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19667 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19669 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19670 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19673 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19674 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19675 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19676 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19677 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19678 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19679 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19680 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19682 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19683 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19684 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19685 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19686 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19687 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19690 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19691 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19692 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19693 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19694 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19697 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19698 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19699 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19700 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19701 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19702 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19703 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19704 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19706 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19707 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19708 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19709 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19710 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19711 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19712 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19713 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19714 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19715 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19716 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19717 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19718 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19719 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19720 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19721 security, and privacy fixes.
19724 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
19725 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19726 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
19727 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
19730 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19731 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19732 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19733 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19734 them to solve bug 6033.)
19737 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19738 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19739 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19740 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19741 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19742 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19743 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19744 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19746 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
19747 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
19748 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
19749 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19751 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
19752 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19753 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19754 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19755 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19756 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19757 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19758 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19759 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19760 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19761 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19762 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19764 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
19765 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19766 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19767 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19768 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19769 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19770 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19771 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19772 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19773 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19774 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19775 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19776 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19777 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19778 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19779 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19782 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19783 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19784 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19785 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19786 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19787 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19788 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19789 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19790 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19791 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19792 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19793 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19794 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19795 Implements part of proposal 222.
19797 o Minor features (other):
19798 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19799 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19800 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19801 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19802 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19803 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19804 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19805 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19806 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19808 o Documentation fixes:
19809 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19810 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19811 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19812 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19813 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19814 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19817 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
19818 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
19819 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
19820 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
19821 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
19822 release of the new branch.
19824 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
19825 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
19826 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
19828 o Major features (security):
19829 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19830 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19831 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19832 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19833 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19834 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19835 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19836 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19837 Google Summer of Code.
19838 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19839 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19840 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19841 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19842 them to solve bug 6033.)
19844 o Major features (other):
19845 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19846 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19847 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19848 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19849 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19851 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19852 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19853 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19854 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19855 Implements ticket 8530.
19856 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19857 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19860 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19861 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19862 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19863 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19864 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19865 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19866 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19867 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19868 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19869 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
19870 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
19871 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
19872 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19875 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19876 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19877 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19878 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19879 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19880 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19881 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19882 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19883 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19884 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19888 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19889 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19890 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19891 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19892 invoking the other functions it calls.
19893 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19894 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19895 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19896 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19898 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19899 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19900 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19901 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19902 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19903 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19904 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19905 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19906 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19907 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19908 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19909 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19910 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19911 Implements part of proposal 222.
19913 o Minor features (config options):
19914 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19915 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19916 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19917 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19918 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19919 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19920 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19921 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19922 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19923 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19924 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19925 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19926 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19927 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19928 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19929 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19930 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19933 o Minor features (build):
19934 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19935 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19936 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19937 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19938 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19941 o Minor features (other):
19942 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19943 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19944 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19945 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19946 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19947 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19948 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19949 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19950 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19951 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19952 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19953 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19954 Closes ticket 8109.
19955 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19958 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19959 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19960 bugfix on every released Tor.
19961 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19962 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19963 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19964 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19965 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19966 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19968 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19969 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19970 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19971 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19972 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19973 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19974 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19975 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19977 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19978 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19979 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19980 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19981 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19983 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19984 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19986 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19987 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19988 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19990 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19991 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19992 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19993 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19994 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19996 o Minor code improvements:
19997 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19998 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20000 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20001 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20002 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20003 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20004 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20006 o Removed features:
20007 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20008 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20009 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20010 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20012 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20013 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20014 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20015 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20016 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20017 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20018 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20019 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20020 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20021 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20022 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20023 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20024 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20025 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20026 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20027 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20030 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
20031 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20032 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
20033 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
20034 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
20035 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
20036 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
20039 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20040 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20041 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20042 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20043 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20044 Implements ticket 9574.
20047 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20048 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20049 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20050 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20051 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20052 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20053 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20054 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20055 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20056 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20057 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20058 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20062 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20063 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20064 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20065 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20067 o Minor fixes (config options):
20068 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20069 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20070 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20071 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20072 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20073 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20074 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20075 or we just won't work.)
20078 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20079 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20080 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20081 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20084 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
20085 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20086 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
20089 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20090 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20091 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20092 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
20093 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20094 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
20095 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
20097 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
20098 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20099 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
20100 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
20103 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
20104 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
20105 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20106 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
20107 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
20108 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
20109 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
20110 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
20111 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
20112 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
20113 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20114 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
20115 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20118 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20121 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
20122 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20123 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
20124 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
20127 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20128 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20129 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20132 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20133 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20134 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20137 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
20138 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
20139 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20142 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20143 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
20144 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
20145 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
20146 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
20147 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20149 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
20150 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
20151 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
20152 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
20153 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
20154 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20156 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20157 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20158 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20161 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
20162 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
20163 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
20164 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
20165 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
20167 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
20168 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
20169 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
20170 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20171 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20172 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20173 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20175 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20176 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20177 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20179 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
20180 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
20184 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20185 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20186 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20188 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20189 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20190 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20191 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20192 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20193 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20195 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20196 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20197 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20198 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20199 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
20200 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
20201 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20204 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20205 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20206 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20207 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20208 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20209 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20210 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20211 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20212 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20213 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20214 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20215 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20216 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
20217 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
20219 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
20220 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
20221 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
20222 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
20225 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20226 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
20227 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
20228 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
20229 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
20230 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
20232 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
20233 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
20237 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
20238 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
20239 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20240 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20241 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20242 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20243 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20245 o Removed documentation:
20246 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20247 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20249 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20250 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20251 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20252 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20255 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
20256 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
20257 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
20258 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
20259 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
20260 variety of other issues.
20263 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20264 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20265 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20266 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20267 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20268 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20269 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20270 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20272 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
20273 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
20274 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
20276 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
20277 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20278 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20279 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20280 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
20281 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
20282 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20284 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20285 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20286 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20287 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20288 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20289 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20290 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20291 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20292 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20293 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20294 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20295 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20296 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20297 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20298 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20299 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20300 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20301 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20302 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20303 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20304 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20306 o Major bugfixes (other):
20307 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
20308 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
20309 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
20310 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20313 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20314 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20315 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20316 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20318 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20319 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20321 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20323 o Minor features (build):
20324 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20325 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20327 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
20328 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
20330 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20331 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20332 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20335 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20336 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20337 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20338 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20339 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
20340 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
20341 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20342 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
20343 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
20344 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20345 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
20346 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
20347 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
20348 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
20351 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20352 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20353 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20354 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20355 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20356 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20357 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20358 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20359 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20360 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20361 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20362 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
20363 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
20364 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20365 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20367 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20368 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
20369 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20370 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20371 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20372 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20373 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20374 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20375 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20376 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20377 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20378 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20379 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20380 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20381 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20382 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20383 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20385 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
20386 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20387 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20388 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20389 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20390 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20391 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20392 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20395 o Minor bugfixes (config):
20396 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20397 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20399 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20400 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20401 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20402 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20403 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20404 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20405 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20406 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20407 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20408 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20409 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
20410 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
20411 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20412 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
20413 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
20416 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
20417 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20418 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20419 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20420 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20421 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20422 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20423 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20425 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20426 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20427 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20428 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20429 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20430 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
20431 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20433 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20434 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
20435 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
20436 the relaxed timeout log message.
20437 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
20438 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
20439 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
20441 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
20442 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
20443 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20444 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
20445 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20446 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
20447 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
20450 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20451 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20452 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20453 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20454 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20455 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20456 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20457 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20458 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20459 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20460 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20461 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20462 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20463 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20464 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20465 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20466 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20468 o Documentation fixes:
20469 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20470 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20471 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20472 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20473 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20474 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20475 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20476 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20479 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20480 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20484 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
20485 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
20486 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
20487 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
20489 o Major features (directory authorities):
20490 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20491 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
20492 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20493 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20494 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20495 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20496 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20497 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20498 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20499 Implements ticket 8151.
20501 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20502 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20503 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20504 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20505 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20507 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20508 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
20509 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
20510 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
20511 whether authentication information is present, causing all
20512 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
20513 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
20515 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
20516 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20517 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20518 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20519 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20520 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20521 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20522 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20523 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20524 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20525 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
20526 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20527 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20528 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20529 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20530 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20531 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20532 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20533 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20534 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
20535 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
20536 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
20539 o Minor features (portability):
20540 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
20541 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20542 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20543 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20544 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20545 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
20546 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
20547 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20549 o Minor features (other):
20550 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20551 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20552 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20553 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
20554 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
20555 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
20556 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
20557 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
20559 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20561 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20562 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20563 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20564 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20565 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20566 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20567 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
20568 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
20569 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
20570 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
20572 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
20573 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
20574 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
20575 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20577 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20578 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20579 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20580 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20581 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20582 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20583 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20585 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20586 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20587 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20588 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20589 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20591 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20592 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20593 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20594 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20596 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20597 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
20598 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
20601 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
20602 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20603 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20604 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20606 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20607 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
20608 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
20609 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20611 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
20612 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20613 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20614 this is CID 718634.
20615 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20616 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20617 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20618 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20620 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
20621 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
20622 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20623 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
20624 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
20625 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
20626 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20628 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20629 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20633 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
20634 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
20635 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
20636 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
20637 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
20640 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
20641 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20642 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20643 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20645 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20646 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20647 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20651 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20652 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20653 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
20654 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20655 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20656 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20657 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20658 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20659 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20660 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20661 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
20662 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
20663 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
20666 o Major features (relay):
20667 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20668 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20669 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20670 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20671 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20672 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20673 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20675 o Major features (portability):
20676 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20677 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20678 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20679 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
20680 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20683 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20684 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20685 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20686 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20687 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20688 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20690 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20691 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20692 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20693 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20694 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20695 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20696 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20697 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20699 o Minor features (path selection):
20700 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20701 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20702 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20703 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20704 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20705 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20706 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20707 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20708 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20709 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20710 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20711 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20712 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20713 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20714 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20715 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20716 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20717 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20718 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20720 o Minor features (log messages):
20721 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20722 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20723 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20724 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20727 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20728 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20729 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20730 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20731 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20732 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20733 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20734 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
20735 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
20736 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20737 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
20738 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20740 o Build improvements:
20741 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20742 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20743 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20744 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20745 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20746 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20747 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20748 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20749 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20750 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20751 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20752 than to perform erroneously.
20754 o Removed features:
20755 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20756 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20757 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20759 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20760 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
20761 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
20764 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20765 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20767 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20768 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20772 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
20773 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
20774 work more robustly.
20777 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
20778 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
20779 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
20783 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
20784 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
20785 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
20786 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
20789 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
20790 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
20791 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
20792 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
20793 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
20794 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
20795 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
20796 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20797 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20798 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20799 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20800 closes ticket 7199.
20802 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20803 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20804 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20805 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20806 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20807 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20808 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20809 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20810 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20811 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20812 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20814 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20815 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20816 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20818 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
20819 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
20820 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
20822 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20824 o Major features (better link encryption):
20825 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20826 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20827 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20828 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20829 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20830 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20833 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
20834 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
20835 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
20836 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
20837 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
20838 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
20839 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
20841 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20842 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20843 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20844 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20846 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20849 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
20850 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
20851 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20854 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20855 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20856 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20857 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20858 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20859 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20860 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20861 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20862 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20864 o Minor features (testing):
20865 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20866 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20867 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20869 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20870 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
20871 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
20872 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20873 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20874 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20875 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20876 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20877 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20878 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20879 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20880 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20881 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20882 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20883 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20884 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20885 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20886 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20887 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20888 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20889 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20890 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20891 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20892 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20893 detection capability loss.
20895 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20896 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
20897 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
20898 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
20899 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20900 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20901 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20902 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20905 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20906 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20907 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20908 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20909 and the different handshakes it supports.
20910 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20911 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20912 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20913 any encoding is overkill.
20916 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
20917 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
20918 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
20919 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
20920 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
20921 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
20922 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
20923 and fixes a variety of other issues.
20925 o Major features (client resilience):
20926 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20927 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20928 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20929 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20930 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20931 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20932 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20933 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20934 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20935 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20936 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20937 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20938 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20939 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20940 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20942 o Major features (IPv6):
20943 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20944 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20945 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20946 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20947 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
20948 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
20949 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
20950 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
20952 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
20953 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
20955 o Major features (geoip database):
20956 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20957 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20958 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20959 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20960 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20961 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20962 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
20963 Country database, as modified above.
20965 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20966 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20967 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20968 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20969 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20970 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20971 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20972 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20973 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20974 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20975 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20976 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20977 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20978 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20979 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20980 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20981 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20984 o Major bugfixes (other):
20985 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20986 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20987 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20988 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20989 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20990 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
20991 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
20992 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
20994 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
20995 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
20998 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20999 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21000 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21001 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
21002 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
21003 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
21004 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21005 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21007 o Minor features (IPv6):
21008 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21009 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21010 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21011 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21012 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21013 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21014 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21015 connect to the wrong addresses.
21016 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21017 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21018 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21019 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21023 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21024 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21025 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21026 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21027 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21028 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21029 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21031 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21032 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21033 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21036 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21037 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21039 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21040 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21041 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21042 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21043 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21046 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21047 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21048 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21049 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21050 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21051 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21052 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21053 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21055 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21056 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21057 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21058 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21059 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21060 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21061 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21062 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21063 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21064 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21065 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21068 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21069 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21070 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21071 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21072 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21073 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21074 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21075 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21076 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21077 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21080 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21081 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21085 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
21086 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
21087 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
21088 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
21091 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
21092 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
21094 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21095 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21096 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21097 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21098 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21099 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21100 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21101 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21102 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21103 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21106 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
21108 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
21109 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
21110 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
21111 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
21112 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21115 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21116 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21117 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21118 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21119 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21121 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
21122 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21123 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
21124 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
21125 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
21126 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
21127 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
21129 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
21130 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21131 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
21132 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
21133 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
21134 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21135 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
21136 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21138 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21139 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21140 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21141 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21142 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21143 present the same extensions.)
21146 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
21147 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
21148 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
21149 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
21150 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
21152 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21153 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21154 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21155 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21157 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21158 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21159 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21160 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21162 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21163 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21164 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21165 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21166 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21167 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21168 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21169 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21170 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21172 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21173 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21174 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21175 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21176 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21179 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21180 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21181 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21183 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21184 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21186 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21187 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21191 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
21192 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
21193 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
21194 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
21197 o Major bugfixes (security):
21198 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21199 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21200 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21202 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21203 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21204 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21205 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21208 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21209 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21210 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21211 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21212 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21213 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21214 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21215 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21218 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21219 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21220 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21221 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21224 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
21225 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21226 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
21227 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
21228 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
21229 scheduling algorithms.
21231 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21232 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21233 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21235 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21236 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21237 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21238 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21239 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21240 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21241 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21242 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21243 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21244 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21245 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21247 o Internal abstraction features:
21248 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
21249 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
21250 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
21251 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
21252 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
21253 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
21254 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
21255 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
21256 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
21257 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
21258 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
21259 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
21260 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
21261 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
21262 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
21263 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
21264 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
21266 o Required libraries:
21267 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
21268 strongly recommended.
21271 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21272 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21273 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21274 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21275 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21276 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21277 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21278 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21279 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21281 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21282 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
21283 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
21284 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21285 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21286 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21287 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21288 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21289 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21290 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21291 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21292 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21293 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21294 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21295 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21298 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21299 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21300 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21301 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21302 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21303 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21304 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21305 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21306 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21307 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21308 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21309 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21310 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
21311 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
21312 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21313 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21314 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21315 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21316 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21318 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
21319 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21320 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21321 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21322 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21323 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21324 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21327 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
21328 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21329 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
21330 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
21332 o New directory authorities:
21333 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21334 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21336 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
21337 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21338 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21339 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21340 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21341 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21342 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21343 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21344 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21345 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21346 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21349 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21350 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21351 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21353 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21354 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21355 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21356 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21357 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21358 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21359 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21360 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21361 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21363 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21364 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21365 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21366 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21367 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21368 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21369 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21370 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21371 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21372 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21373 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21374 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21375 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21376 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21377 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21378 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21379 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21380 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21382 o Documentation fixes:
21383 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21386 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
21387 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21388 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
21389 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
21392 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21393 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21394 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21397 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21398 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21399 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21400 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
21401 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
21402 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
21403 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
21404 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21406 o Security features:
21407 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
21408 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
21409 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
21410 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
21411 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
21412 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
21413 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
21414 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
21415 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
21419 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
21420 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
21421 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
21424 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21425 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21426 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21427 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21428 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21429 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21430 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21431 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21432 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21433 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21434 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21435 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
21436 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
21437 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
21439 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
21440 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21441 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
21442 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
21443 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21445 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21446 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21447 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21448 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21449 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21450 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21451 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21452 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21453 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21454 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21455 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21456 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21457 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21458 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21459 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
21460 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
21461 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21462 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
21463 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
21464 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
21466 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21467 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21468 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21469 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21470 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21471 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21472 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21473 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21475 o Documentation fixes:
21476 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21477 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21481 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
21482 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21486 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21487 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21488 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21491 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21492 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21496 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21497 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21501 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21502 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21503 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21504 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21505 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21506 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21507 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21511 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
21512 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
21513 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
21514 log messages less noisy.
21517 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
21518 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
21522 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
21523 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
21524 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
21525 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
21526 last time we raised it).
21529 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21530 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
21532 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21533 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21534 part of ticket 6736.
21535 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21536 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21537 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21541 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21542 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21543 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21544 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21545 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21547 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21548 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21549 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
21550 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
21551 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21552 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
21553 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
21554 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21555 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
21556 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21557 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
21558 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21560 o Removed features:
21561 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21562 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
21563 bunch of compatibility code.
21565 o Code refactoring:
21566 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
21567 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
21568 the ORPort and the DirPort.
21571 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
21572 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
21573 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
21574 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
21576 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21577 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21578 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
21580 o Major features (bridges):
21581 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
21582 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
21583 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
21586 o Major features (IPv6):
21587 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
21588 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
21589 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
21590 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
21591 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
21592 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
21593 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
21594 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
21595 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
21597 o Major features (build):
21598 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
21599 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
21600 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
21601 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
21602 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
21603 fixes by Jim Meyering.
21604 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
21605 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
21606 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
21608 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
21609 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
21610 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
21611 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
21612 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
21613 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
21614 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
21615 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
21616 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
21617 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
21618 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
21620 o Minor features (streamlining);
21621 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
21622 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
21624 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21625 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21626 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21627 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21628 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21629 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21631 o Minor features (controller):
21632 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
21634 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
21635 Implements ticket 4971.
21637 o Minor features (IPv6):
21638 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21639 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21640 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21641 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21642 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21644 o Minor features (log messages):
21645 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21646 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21647 Resolves ticket 6758.
21648 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21649 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21650 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21651 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21652 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21653 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21654 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21656 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21657 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21658 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21659 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21660 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21663 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21664 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21665 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21666 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21667 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21669 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21670 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21671 Implements ticket 5529.
21672 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21673 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21674 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21675 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21676 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21677 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21678 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21679 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21680 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21681 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21683 o New requirements:
21684 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
21685 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
21686 from a source distribution.)
21689 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
21690 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21691 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
21692 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
21693 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
21694 and cleans up other smaller issues.
21696 o Major bugfixes (security):
21697 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21698 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21699 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21700 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21701 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21702 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
21703 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
21704 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
21705 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21706 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21707 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21708 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21709 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21710 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21711 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21712 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21716 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
21717 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
21718 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
21719 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21720 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
21721 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
21722 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
21723 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
21724 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
21725 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21728 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21729 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21730 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21731 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21732 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21733 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21734 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21735 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21736 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21737 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21738 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21740 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21741 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21742 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21744 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
21745 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
21746 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
21747 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
21748 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21749 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
21750 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
21751 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
21752 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21753 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
21754 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21755 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21756 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21757 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21760 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21761 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21762 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21763 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21764 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21765 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
21766 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
21767 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
21768 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
21769 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
21770 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21771 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
21772 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
21773 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
21774 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
21777 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21778 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21779 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21780 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
21781 Resolves ticket 6732.
21784 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21785 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21786 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21789 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21790 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21791 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21792 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21793 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21794 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21795 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21796 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21797 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21798 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21799 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21800 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21801 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21802 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21805 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
21806 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21807 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
21808 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
21811 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21812 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21813 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21814 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21815 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21816 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21817 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21818 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21819 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21820 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21821 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21822 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21823 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21824 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21825 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21826 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21827 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21830 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
21831 a little more useful.
21832 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
21833 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21834 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21835 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21836 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21837 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21838 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21841 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21842 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21843 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
21844 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21845 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
21846 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
21850 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21851 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21852 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21853 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21854 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21857 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21858 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21859 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21862 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21864 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21866 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21867 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21868 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21869 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21870 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21873 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
21874 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21875 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
21876 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
21877 since the beginning of Tor.
21880 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21881 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21882 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21883 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21884 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
21885 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
21886 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
21887 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21888 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
21889 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
21892 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21893 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21896 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
21897 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21898 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
21899 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
21902 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
21903 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21904 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
21905 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
21906 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
21907 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21909 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21910 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21911 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21912 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21913 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21914 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21915 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21916 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21917 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21918 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21919 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21920 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21921 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21922 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21923 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21924 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21925 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21926 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21927 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21929 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21930 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
21931 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
21933 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
21934 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21935 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
21936 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
21938 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
21939 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21940 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
21941 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21942 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
21943 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
21944 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21945 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
21946 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
21947 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
21948 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21949 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
21950 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
21951 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21952 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
21953 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
21956 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
21957 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21958 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21959 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21960 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
21963 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
21964 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
21965 options. Closes bug 4748.
21968 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
21969 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
21970 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
21971 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
21972 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
21976 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21977 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21979 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
21980 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
21981 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
21982 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
21983 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
21984 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
21985 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
21986 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
21987 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
21990 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
21991 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
21992 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
21993 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
21994 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
21995 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
21996 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
21997 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22000 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22001 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22002 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22003 case for flushing marked connections.
22004 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22005 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22006 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22007 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22008 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22009 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22010 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22011 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22012 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22013 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
22014 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
22015 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
22016 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22017 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22018 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22019 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22020 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22021 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22022 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22023 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22024 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
22025 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22026 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22027 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
22028 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
22030 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
22031 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22032 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
22036 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22037 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22038 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22039 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22040 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22041 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22042 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
22043 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
22044 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
22045 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
22046 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
22047 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
22048 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
22049 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
22050 Addresses ticket 5458.
22051 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22053 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22054 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
22055 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
22058 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22059 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22060 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22064 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22065 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22066 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22067 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22068 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22069 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22070 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22071 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22072 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22073 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22074 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22077 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22078 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22081 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22082 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22085 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
22086 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22087 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22088 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
22089 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22091 o Major bugfixes (general):
22092 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22093 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22094 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22095 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22096 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22097 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22098 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22099 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
22100 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
22102 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
22103 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
22104 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
22105 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
22108 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22109 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
22110 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
22111 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
22112 which introduced predicted ports.
22113 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22114 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22115 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22116 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22117 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
22118 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
22119 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
22120 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
22121 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
22122 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
22123 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22124 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
22125 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
22127 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22128 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
22129 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
22130 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
22131 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
22132 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22133 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
22134 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
22135 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
22136 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
22137 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
22141 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22142 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22143 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22144 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22145 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22146 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22147 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
22148 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
22149 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
22150 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
22151 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
22152 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
22153 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
22154 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
22156 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
22157 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
22158 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
22159 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
22160 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
22161 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
22162 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
22163 sure. Closes bug 5139.
22164 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22165 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22166 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22167 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
22168 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22169 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22170 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22172 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
22173 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22174 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22175 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22176 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22177 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22178 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22179 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22180 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22181 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22182 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22183 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22184 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22185 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22186 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22187 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22188 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22189 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22190 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22191 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22193 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22194 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22195 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22196 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22197 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22198 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22199 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22200 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22201 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
22202 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
22203 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
22204 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22205 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22207 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22208 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22209 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22210 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22212 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22213 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22214 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22215 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
22216 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
22217 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22218 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22219 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22220 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22221 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22223 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22224 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22225 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22227 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22228 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22229 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22230 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22231 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22232 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22233 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22234 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22235 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22236 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22237 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22238 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22239 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22240 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22241 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22242 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22243 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22244 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22245 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22246 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22248 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22249 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22250 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22251 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22252 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22253 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22255 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22256 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22257 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22259 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22260 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22261 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22262 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22263 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22264 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22266 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22267 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
22268 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
22270 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
22271 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
22272 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22273 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
22274 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
22275 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22276 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
22277 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
22278 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22279 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22280 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
22281 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
22282 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
22283 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
22284 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
22285 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
22287 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
22288 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
22289 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22290 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
22291 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
22292 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22293 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
22294 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22295 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
22296 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22297 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
22298 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22299 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
22302 o Documentation fixes:
22303 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22304 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22305 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22306 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22307 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22308 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22311 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22312 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22316 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22317 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22318 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22319 and fixes several crash bugs.
22321 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22322 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22323 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22324 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22326 o Directory authority changes:
22327 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22328 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22332 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22333 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22334 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22335 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22336 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22337 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22338 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22339 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22340 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22341 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22342 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22343 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22344 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22345 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22346 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22347 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22348 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22349 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22350 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22351 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22352 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22353 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22354 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22355 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22356 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22357 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22358 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22361 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22362 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22363 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22364 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22366 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22367 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22369 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22370 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22371 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22372 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22373 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22374 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22375 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22376 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22379 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22380 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22381 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22382 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22383 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22384 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22385 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22386 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22387 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22388 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22389 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22390 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22391 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22392 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22393 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22394 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22395 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22396 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22397 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22398 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22399 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22400 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22401 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22402 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22403 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22404 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22405 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22406 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22407 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22408 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22409 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22410 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22411 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22412 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22413 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22414 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22415 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22416 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22417 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22418 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22419 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22420 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22421 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22422 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22423 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22424 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22426 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22427 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22428 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22429 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22430 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22431 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22432 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22433 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22434 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22435 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22436 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22437 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22438 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22439 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22440 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22443 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22444 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22445 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22446 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22448 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22451 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22452 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22453 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22454 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22455 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22456 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22457 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22460 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
22461 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
22462 the development branch build on Windows again.
22464 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22465 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22466 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22467 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22468 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22469 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
22470 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
22471 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
22472 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
22473 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22474 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22475 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22476 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22477 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22478 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22480 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22481 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
22482 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
22483 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22484 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
22485 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22486 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
22487 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22488 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
22489 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
22490 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
22491 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22494 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
22495 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
22496 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
22497 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
22498 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
22499 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
22500 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
22501 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
22502 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
22504 o Removed features:
22505 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
22506 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
22507 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
22508 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
22512 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
22513 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
22514 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
22515 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
22517 o Directory authority changes:
22518 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22522 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22523 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22524 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22525 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22527 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
22528 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
22529 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
22530 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
22531 documents entirely.
22532 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
22533 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
22534 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22536 o Major features (performance):
22537 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
22538 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
22539 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
22540 much faster than other AES implementations.
22542 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
22543 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22544 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22545 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22546 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22547 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22548 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22549 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22550 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22551 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22552 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22553 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22554 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22555 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22556 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22557 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22558 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22559 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22561 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
22562 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
22563 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
22564 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22565 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
22566 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22567 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
22568 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
22569 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
22571 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
22572 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
22573 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22574 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
22575 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
22576 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22579 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22580 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22581 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22582 please let us know about it.
22583 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
22584 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
22585 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
22586 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
22587 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22588 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22589 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22590 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22592 o Default torrc changes:
22593 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
22594 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
22596 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
22597 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
22598 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
22601 o Removed features:
22602 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22603 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22604 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22605 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22607 o Code refactoring:
22608 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22609 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22610 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22611 it would be a bad idea to start.
22614 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
22615 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
22616 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
22617 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22619 o Directory authority changes:
22620 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22623 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22624 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22625 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22626 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22627 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22628 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22629 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
22630 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22631 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22632 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22633 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22634 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22635 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22636 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22637 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22638 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22640 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
22641 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
22642 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
22643 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
22644 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
22645 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22646 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
22647 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
22648 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22649 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
22650 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
22651 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
22653 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
22654 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
22655 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22656 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
22657 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
22659 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22660 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22661 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22662 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22663 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22664 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22665 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22666 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22667 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22668 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22669 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22670 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22671 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22672 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22673 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22674 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22675 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22676 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22677 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22678 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22679 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22680 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22683 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22684 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
22685 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22686 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
22687 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
22688 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
22689 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
22690 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
22691 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22692 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
22693 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
22694 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
22695 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
22696 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
22697 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
22698 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
22699 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
22702 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22703 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22704 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22707 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
22708 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
22709 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
22710 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
22713 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22714 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22716 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
22717 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
22718 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
22719 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22720 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
22721 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
22722 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
22723 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22724 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
22725 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
22726 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
22727 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22730 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22731 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22732 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22733 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
22734 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
22735 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
22736 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22739 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22740 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22741 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22742 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22743 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
22744 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
22745 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
22746 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
22747 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
22748 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
22750 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
22751 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
22752 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
22753 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
22754 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22755 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22756 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22757 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
22758 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
22761 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22762 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22763 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22767 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
22768 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
22769 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
22770 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
22771 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
22772 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
22775 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
22776 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
22777 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
22778 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
22779 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
22780 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
22781 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
22782 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
22784 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
22785 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
22786 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
22787 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
22788 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
22789 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
22790 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
22791 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
22793 o Major security workaround:
22794 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22795 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22796 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22797 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22798 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22799 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22800 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22801 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22802 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22803 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22804 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22807 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22808 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22809 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22810 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22811 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22812 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22813 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22814 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22815 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
22816 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
22817 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
22818 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
22819 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
22821 o Minor features (controller):
22822 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22823 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22824 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22825 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22826 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22827 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22828 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
22829 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
22830 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
22832 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
22833 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
22834 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
22835 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
22836 part of ticket 3457.
22837 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
22838 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
22839 circuit-status' control-port command.
22841 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22842 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22843 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22844 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22845 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22847 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
22848 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
22849 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
22850 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
22851 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
22852 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
22853 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
22855 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22856 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22858 o Minor features (other):
22859 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
22860 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
22861 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
22862 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
22863 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
22864 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22865 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22866 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
22868 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22869 them from the other auths.
22870 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22871 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
22872 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
22873 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
22874 the 0.2.3.x series.
22875 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22877 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22878 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22879 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22880 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22881 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22882 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22883 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22884 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22885 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22886 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22887 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22888 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22889 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22890 be disabled using the new
22891 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22892 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22893 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
22894 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
22895 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
22896 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
22897 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
22898 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
22899 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
22900 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
22901 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
22902 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
22904 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
22905 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
22906 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
22909 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22910 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22911 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
22913 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22914 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22915 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22916 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22917 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22918 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22919 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22921 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
22922 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22923 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22924 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22925 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22926 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22927 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22928 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22930 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22931 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22932 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22933 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
22934 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
22935 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
22936 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
22937 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
22938 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
22941 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22942 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22943 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22944 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22945 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22946 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22947 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22948 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22949 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22950 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
22951 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
22952 accidentally been reverted.
22953 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22954 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22955 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22956 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22957 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22958 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22959 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22960 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
22961 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
22962 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22963 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
22964 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
22965 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
22966 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
22967 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22968 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
22969 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22970 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
22971 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22974 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22975 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22976 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22977 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22978 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22979 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22980 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22982 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22983 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22984 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22985 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22986 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22987 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22988 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22990 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22991 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22992 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22993 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22994 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22995 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22996 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22997 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22998 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22999 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
23000 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
23004 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
23005 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
23006 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23008 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23009 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23010 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23011 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23012 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23013 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23014 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23015 (which Tor does not do by default).
23017 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23018 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23019 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23020 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23021 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23023 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
23027 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23028 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23029 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23030 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23033 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
23034 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
23035 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
23036 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
23037 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
23038 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
23039 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
23040 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
23041 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
23042 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
23043 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23046 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23049 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
23050 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
23051 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23053 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23054 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23055 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23056 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23057 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23058 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23059 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23060 (which Tor does not do by default).
23062 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23063 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23064 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23065 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23066 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23068 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
23069 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
23070 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
23073 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
23074 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
23075 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
23076 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
23077 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23079 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
23080 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
23083 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23084 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23085 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23086 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23087 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23088 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23089 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23090 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23092 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23093 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23094 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23095 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23096 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23097 close based on processing a cell on it.
23098 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23099 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23100 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23101 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23102 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23103 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23104 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23105 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
23106 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
23107 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
23108 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23109 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23110 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23111 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23112 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
23115 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23116 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23117 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23118 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23119 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23120 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23121 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23123 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23124 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23125 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23126 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23127 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23128 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23129 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23130 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23131 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23132 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23133 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23134 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23135 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23136 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23137 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
23138 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
23139 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
23140 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
23141 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23142 Reported by "troll_un".
23143 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23144 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23145 Reported by "troll_un".
23146 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23147 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23148 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23149 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23152 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23153 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23154 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23155 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23156 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23157 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23158 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23159 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23160 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23161 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23162 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23164 o Packaging changes:
23165 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23166 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23169 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
23170 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23171 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23172 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23173 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23175 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
23176 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
23178 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23179 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23180 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23181 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23182 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23183 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23184 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23185 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23186 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23189 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23192 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
23193 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
23194 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
23195 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
23196 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
23197 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
23198 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
23201 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
23202 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
23203 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
23204 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
23205 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
23206 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
23207 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
23208 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
23209 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
23210 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
23211 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
23212 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
23213 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
23214 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
23215 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
23216 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
23217 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
23218 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
23219 Resolves ticket 4526.
23220 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
23221 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
23222 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
23223 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
23224 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
23225 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
23226 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
23227 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
23228 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
23229 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
23230 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
23231 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
23232 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
23233 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
23234 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
23235 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
23238 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
23239 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
23240 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
23241 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
23242 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
23243 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
23244 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
23245 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
23246 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
23247 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23249 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
23250 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
23251 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
23252 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
23253 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
23254 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
23255 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
23256 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
23257 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
23259 o Minor features (new/different config options):
23260 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
23261 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
23262 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
23263 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
23264 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
23265 Implements issue 933.
23266 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
23267 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
23268 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
23269 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
23270 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
23271 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
23272 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
23273 appending to the list.
23274 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
23275 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
23276 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
23277 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
23279 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
23280 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
23281 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
23282 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
23283 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
23284 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
23285 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
23286 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
23289 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
23290 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
23291 Resolves ticket 2474.
23292 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
23293 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
23294 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
23295 Required by fix for bug 3460.
23296 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
23297 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
23298 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
23299 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
23300 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
23301 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
23302 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
23303 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
23304 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
23306 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23307 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23308 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23310 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
23312 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
23313 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
23315 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
23316 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
23317 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23318 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23319 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
23320 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
23321 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
23323 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
23324 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
23325 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23326 Reported by "troll_un".
23327 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23328 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23329 Reported by "troll_un".
23330 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23331 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23332 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
23333 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
23335 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
23336 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
23338 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
23339 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
23340 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
23341 with help from wanoskarnet.
23342 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
23343 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23346 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
23347 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
23348 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
23349 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23351 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
23352 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
23353 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
23354 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
23355 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
23356 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
23357 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
23358 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
23361 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
23362 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
23363 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
23364 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
23365 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
23366 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
23367 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
23368 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
23369 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
23372 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23373 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23374 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23375 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23377 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23378 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23379 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23380 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23381 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
23382 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
23383 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
23384 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
23385 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
23386 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
23387 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
23388 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
23389 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
23390 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
23391 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
23392 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
23393 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
23394 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
23395 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
23396 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23397 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23398 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23399 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23400 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
23403 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
23404 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
23405 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
23406 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
23407 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
23408 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23409 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
23410 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
23413 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23414 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23415 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23416 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23417 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23418 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23419 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23420 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23421 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23422 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
23423 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
23424 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
23425 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
23426 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
23427 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
23429 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
23430 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
23431 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23432 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23433 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23434 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23435 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23436 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23437 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
23438 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
23439 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
23440 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23441 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23442 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23443 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23444 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23445 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23447 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23448 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
23449 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
23450 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
23451 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23452 Found by frosty_un.
23453 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
23454 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
23455 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
23457 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
23458 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
23459 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
23461 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
23462 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
23464 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
23465 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23468 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23469 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23470 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23471 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23472 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23473 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23474 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23475 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23476 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23477 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23478 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
23479 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
23480 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
23481 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
23483 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
23484 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
23485 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23487 o Packaging changes:
23488 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23489 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23491 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23492 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
23493 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
23494 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
23495 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
23496 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
23497 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
23498 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
23499 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
23502 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
23504 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
23505 ./src/test/bench binary.
23506 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
23507 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
23510 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
23511 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
23512 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
23516 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23517 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23518 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23519 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23520 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23521 close based on processing a cell on it.
23522 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
23523 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
23524 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23525 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
23526 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
23527 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
23528 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
23529 cells were introduced.
23532 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23533 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23536 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
23537 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
23538 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
23539 users. Everybody should upgrade.
23541 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
23542 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
23545 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
23546 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
23547 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
23548 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
23549 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
23550 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
23552 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23553 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23554 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23555 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23556 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23557 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23558 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23559 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23560 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23561 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23562 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23563 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23564 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23565 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23566 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23567 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23568 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23569 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23572 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23573 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
23574 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
23575 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
23576 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
23577 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
23578 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
23579 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
23580 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
23581 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
23582 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
23583 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
23584 Partly fixes bug 3825.
23585 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23586 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23587 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23588 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23589 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23590 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23591 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23593 o Major bugfixes (other):
23594 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23595 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23596 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23597 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23598 Found by "frosty_un".
23599 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
23600 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
23601 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
23602 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
23603 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
23604 immensely in tracking this bug down.
23605 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23606 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23609 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23610 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23611 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23612 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23613 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23614 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23615 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
23616 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
23617 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23618 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23619 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23620 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23621 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23622 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23623 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23624 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23625 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23626 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23627 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23628 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23629 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23631 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23632 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
23633 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
23634 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23635 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
23636 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
23637 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
23638 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
23639 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
23640 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
23641 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
23644 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
23645 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
23646 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
23647 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
23648 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23649 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23650 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23651 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23652 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
23653 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
23654 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
23655 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
23656 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
23657 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23659 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23660 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
23661 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
23662 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
23663 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
23664 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
23665 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
23666 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
23669 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
23670 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
23671 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
23673 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
23674 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
23675 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
23676 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
23677 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
23678 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
23679 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
23680 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
23681 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
23682 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
23683 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
23684 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
23685 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
23687 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
23688 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
23689 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
23690 currently connected to them.
23692 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
23693 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23694 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23696 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23697 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23698 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23699 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23700 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23701 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23702 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23703 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23704 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23705 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23706 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23707 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23708 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23709 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23710 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23711 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23712 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23713 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23716 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23717 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23718 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23719 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23720 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23721 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23722 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23723 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23724 when bridges were introduced.
23725 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23726 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23727 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23728 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23729 Found by "frosty_un".
23732 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23733 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23735 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23736 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23737 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23738 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23739 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23740 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23741 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23744 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23745 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23746 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23747 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23748 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23749 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23750 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23751 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23752 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23753 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23754 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23755 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23756 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23757 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23758 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23759 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23760 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23761 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23763 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23764 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23765 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23766 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23767 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23768 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23769 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23770 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23771 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23772 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23773 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23774 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23777 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23778 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23779 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23780 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23783 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23784 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23785 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23786 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23787 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23789 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23790 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23791 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23792 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23793 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23794 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23795 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23796 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23797 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23798 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23800 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23801 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23802 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23803 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23804 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23805 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23806 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23807 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23808 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23809 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23810 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23811 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23812 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23813 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23814 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23815 Found by "frosty_un".
23816 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23817 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23818 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23819 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23820 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23821 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23822 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23823 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23824 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23825 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23826 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23827 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23828 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23829 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23830 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23831 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23832 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23833 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23834 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23836 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23837 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23838 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23839 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23840 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23841 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23842 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23843 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23845 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23846 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23847 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23848 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23849 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23850 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23851 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23852 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23853 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23854 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23855 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23856 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23858 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23859 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23860 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23861 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23862 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23863 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23864 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23865 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23866 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23868 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23870 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23871 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23872 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23873 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23874 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23875 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23876 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23877 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23879 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23880 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23881 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23882 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23883 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23885 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23886 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23887 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23888 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23889 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23892 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
23893 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
23894 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
23895 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
23896 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
23899 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23900 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23901 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23902 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23903 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23904 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23905 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23906 when bridges were introduced.
23909 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
23910 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
23911 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23913 o Major features (networking):
23914 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
23915 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
23916 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
23917 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
23918 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
23922 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23923 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23924 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23926 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
23927 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23928 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23929 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23930 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23932 o Minor features (diagnostics):
23933 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
23934 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
23937 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
23938 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
23939 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
23940 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
23941 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
23942 listed in the network consensus and republish.
23944 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23945 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23946 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23947 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23949 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
23950 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23951 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23952 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23953 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23954 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23955 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23956 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23957 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23958 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23959 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23961 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23962 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23963 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23964 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23965 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23966 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23967 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23968 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23969 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23970 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23972 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23973 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23974 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23975 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23976 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23977 fixes part of bug 2442.
23978 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23979 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23980 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23982 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23983 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23984 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23985 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23986 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23988 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23989 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23990 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23991 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23992 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23995 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
23996 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
23997 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
24001 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
24002 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
24003 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
24004 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
24005 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
24006 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
24007 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
24010 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
24011 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
24012 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
24013 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
24014 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
24015 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
24016 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
24019 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
24020 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
24021 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
24022 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
24023 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
24024 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24025 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
24026 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
24027 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24029 o Code refactoring:
24030 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
24031 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
24034 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
24035 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
24036 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
24037 reachable from Iran again.
24040 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
24041 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
24042 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24044 o Minor features (security):
24045 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
24046 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
24047 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
24048 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
24049 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
24050 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
24051 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
24052 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
24053 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
24054 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
24057 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24058 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24059 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
24060 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
24061 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
24062 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
24063 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
24064 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
24065 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24067 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24068 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24069 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24070 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24071 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24072 raised by bug 3898.
24073 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
24074 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
24075 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
24076 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
24077 fixes part of bug 2442.
24078 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
24079 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
24080 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
24082 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
24083 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
24084 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
24085 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
24086 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24089 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24090 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24091 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
24092 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
24093 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
24094 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
24097 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
24098 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
24099 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
24100 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
24101 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
24102 bufferevent-based networking backend.
24104 o Major features (stream isolation):
24105 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
24106 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
24107 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
24108 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
24109 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
24110 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
24111 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
24112 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
24113 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
24114 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
24115 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
24116 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
24117 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
24118 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
24120 o Major features (other):
24121 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
24122 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
24123 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
24124 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
24125 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
24126 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
24127 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
24128 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
24129 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
24130 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
24131 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
24132 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
24133 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
24135 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24136 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
24138 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
24139 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
24140 Fixes part of bug 3752.
24141 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
24142 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
24143 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
24144 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
24145 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
24146 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
24147 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24148 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
24149 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
24150 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
24151 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24152 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
24153 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
24154 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
24155 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
24156 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
24157 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
24159 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24160 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24161 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24162 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24163 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24164 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24167 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
24168 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
24169 user. Implements ticket 1692.
24170 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
24171 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
24172 best copy data out of a buffer.
24173 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
24174 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
24175 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
24177 o Minor features (build compatibility):
24178 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
24179 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24180 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24182 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24183 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24185 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
24186 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
24187 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24188 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
24189 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
24190 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
24191 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24193 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
24194 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24195 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24196 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24197 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24198 raised by bug 3898.
24199 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
24200 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
24201 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
24204 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24205 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24206 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24207 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24208 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24209 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24210 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24211 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24212 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24213 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24214 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24215 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24216 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24217 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24218 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24219 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24220 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24221 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24222 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24225 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24226 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
24227 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
24231 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
24232 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
24233 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
24234 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
24235 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
24236 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
24239 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
24240 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
24241 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
24242 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
24243 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
24244 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
24245 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
24246 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
24247 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
24248 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
24250 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
24251 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
24252 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
24253 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
24254 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
24255 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
24256 many many other features and bugfixes.
24259 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
24260 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
24261 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
24264 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24265 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24266 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24267 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24268 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24269 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24270 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24271 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24274 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24277 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24278 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24279 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24280 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24281 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24282 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24283 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24284 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24285 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24286 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24287 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24288 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24289 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24290 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24291 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24292 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24293 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24294 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24298 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
24299 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
24300 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
24301 up a variety of recently introduced features.
24304 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
24305 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
24306 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
24307 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
24308 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
24309 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
24310 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
24311 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
24312 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
24313 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
24314 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
24315 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
24316 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
24317 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
24318 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
24319 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
24321 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24322 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
24323 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
24324 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
24325 order. Fixes bug 2798.
24326 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
24327 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
24328 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
24329 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
24330 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
24331 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
24335 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24336 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
24337 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
24338 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
24340 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
24341 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
24342 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
24343 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
24344 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
24345 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
24346 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
24347 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
24348 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
24349 Implements ticket 3264.
24350 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
24351 implements ticket 3439.
24353 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24354 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
24355 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
24356 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
24357 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
24358 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
24359 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
24360 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
24361 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
24362 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
24363 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
24364 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
24365 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
24366 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
24367 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
24368 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
24369 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
24370 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
24371 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
24372 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
24373 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
24374 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
24375 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
24376 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
24377 fails. Spotted by coverity.
24378 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
24379 present. Found by coverity.
24380 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
24381 a directory cache that provides them.
24383 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24384 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
24385 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
24386 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
24387 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
24388 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
24390 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
24391 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
24392 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24393 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24394 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24395 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24396 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
24397 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
24399 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24400 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
24401 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
24402 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
24403 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
24404 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
24405 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
24407 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
24411 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
24412 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
24413 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
24416 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
24417 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
24418 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24419 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24422 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24423 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24424 discovered by katmagic.
24425 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24426 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24427 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24428 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24429 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24430 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24431 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24432 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24433 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
24434 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
24435 fixes part of bug 3465.
24436 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
24437 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
24441 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24444 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
24445 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
24446 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
24447 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
24448 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
24451 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
24452 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
24453 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
24454 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
24455 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
24458 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
24459 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
24460 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
24461 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
24462 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
24463 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
24466 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
24467 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
24468 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
24469 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24470 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24471 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24472 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24473 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24474 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24475 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24476 fixes part of bug 3407.
24477 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24478 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24479 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24480 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24481 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24482 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24483 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24484 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24485 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
24486 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
24488 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24489 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24490 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24491 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
24494 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24496 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24497 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
24498 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24500 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
24502 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24505 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
24506 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
24507 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
24508 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
24509 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
24510 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
24514 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
24515 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
24516 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
24517 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24518 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
24519 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
24520 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
24522 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
24523 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24524 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
24525 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
24526 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
24527 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
24528 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
24529 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
24530 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
24531 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
24532 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
24533 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
24534 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
24535 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
24536 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
24537 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
24538 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
24539 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
24540 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
24544 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
24545 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
24546 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
24547 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
24548 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
24549 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
24550 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
24551 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
24552 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
24556 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24557 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24558 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24560 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
24562 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
24563 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
24564 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
24565 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
24566 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24567 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24568 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24569 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24570 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
24572 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
24573 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24574 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
24575 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
24576 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
24577 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
24579 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24580 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24582 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24583 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24584 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24587 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
24588 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
24589 Resolves ticket 3252.
24590 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
24591 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
24592 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
24593 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
24594 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
24595 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24598 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24599 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24602 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
24603 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
24604 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
24607 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
24608 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24609 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
24610 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
24611 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
24614 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
24615 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24616 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24617 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24618 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24619 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24620 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24621 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24622 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24626 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
24627 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
24628 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
24629 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
24630 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
24632 o Security/privacy fixes:
24633 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
24634 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
24635 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
24636 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
24637 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
24638 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
24639 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
24640 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
24641 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
24642 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
24643 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
24644 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24645 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
24646 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
24647 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24650 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
24651 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
24652 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
24653 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
24654 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
24655 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
24656 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
24657 part of ticket 3076.
24658 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
24659 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
24660 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
24664 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
24665 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
24666 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
24667 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
24668 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
24669 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
24670 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
24671 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
24673 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
24674 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
24675 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
24676 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
24677 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
24678 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
24679 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
24680 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
24681 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
24682 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
24683 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
24684 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
24685 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24688 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
24689 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
24690 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
24691 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
24692 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
24693 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
24694 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
24696 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
24697 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
24698 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
24699 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
24700 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
24701 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
24702 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
24703 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
24704 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
24705 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
24706 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24707 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24708 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24709 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24710 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24711 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24713 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24714 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24716 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24717 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24719 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24720 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24722 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24723 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24724 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24726 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
24727 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
24728 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
24729 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
24730 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24731 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
24732 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
24733 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
24734 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
24735 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24736 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24738 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
24739 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
24740 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
24741 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24742 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24743 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24744 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24745 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24746 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24747 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24748 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24749 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24750 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24753 o Removed features:
24754 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24755 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24756 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24760 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
24761 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
24762 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
24763 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
24764 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
24765 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
24767 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
24768 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24769 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
24772 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
24773 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
24774 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
24775 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
24776 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
24777 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
24778 zero-copy transports where available.
24779 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
24780 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
24781 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
24782 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
24783 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
24784 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
24785 debug it as it breaks.
24786 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
24787 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
24788 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
24789 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
24790 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
24791 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
24792 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
24793 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
24794 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
24795 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
24796 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
24797 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
24798 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
24799 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
24800 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
24801 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
24802 PortForwarding option.
24803 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
24804 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
24805 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
24806 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
24807 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
24808 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
24809 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
24812 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
24813 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
24814 Implements enhancement 1668.
24815 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
24817 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
24818 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
24819 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
24820 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
24821 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
24822 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
24823 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
24825 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
24826 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
24827 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
24828 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
24829 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24830 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
24831 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
24833 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
24834 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
24835 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
24836 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
24837 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
24838 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
24839 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
24841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
24842 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
24843 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
24844 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
24845 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24846 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
24847 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
24848 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
24849 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
24850 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
24851 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
24852 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24853 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
24854 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
24855 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
24858 o Minor features (controller):
24859 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
24860 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
24861 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
24862 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
24863 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
24864 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
24865 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
24868 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
24869 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
24870 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
24871 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
24872 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
24873 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
24874 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
24875 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
24877 o Minor packaging issues:
24878 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
24879 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24881 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24882 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
24883 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
24884 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
24885 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
24886 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
24887 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
24888 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
24889 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
24890 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
24891 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
24892 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
24893 our library structure used to force them to link it.
24895 o Removed features:
24896 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
24897 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
24898 are no longer in use as servers.
24900 o Documentation fixes:
24901 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
24902 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
24903 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
24907 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
24908 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
24909 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
24910 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
24911 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
24912 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
24913 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
24914 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
24915 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
24916 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
24919 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
24920 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
24921 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
24922 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24923 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
24924 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
24925 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
24926 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
24927 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
24928 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24929 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
24930 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
24931 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24932 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
24933 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
24934 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
24936 o Security and stability fixes:
24937 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
24938 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
24939 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
24940 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
24941 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
24942 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
24943 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
24944 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
24945 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
24946 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
24947 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
24948 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
24949 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24950 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
24951 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
24952 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
24955 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
24956 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
24957 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
24958 contributions to the network.
24960 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
24961 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
24962 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
24963 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
24964 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
24965 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
24966 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
24967 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
24968 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
24969 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
24970 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
24971 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
24972 connections to directory servers.
24973 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
24974 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
24975 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
24976 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
24977 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
24978 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
24979 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
24980 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
24981 information, or fetch directory information.
24982 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
24983 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
24984 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
24985 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
24986 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
24987 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
24988 unless you really want your Tor to break.
24989 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
24990 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
24991 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
24992 - When StrictNodes is 1:
24993 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
24994 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
24995 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
24996 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
24997 reachability self-tests.
24998 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
24999 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
25000 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
25001 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
25002 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25003 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
25004 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
25006 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
25007 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25008 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
25009 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
25010 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
25011 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25012 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
25013 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
25014 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
25015 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
25016 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
25019 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
25020 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
25021 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
25022 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
25023 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
25024 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25025 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
25026 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
25027 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
25028 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
25029 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
25030 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25031 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
25032 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
25033 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25034 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
25035 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
25037 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
25038 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
25039 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
25040 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
25041 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25042 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
25043 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25044 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
25045 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25046 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
25047 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
25048 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
25049 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
25050 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
25051 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
25052 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25053 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
25054 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
25055 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
25056 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
25059 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
25060 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
25061 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
25062 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
25063 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
25064 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
25065 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
25066 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
25067 Required by fix for bug 3000.
25068 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
25069 by fix for bug 3000.
25070 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
25071 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
25073 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25074 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
25075 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
25076 send a body too). Since only server versions before
25077 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
25078 keep the workaround in place.
25079 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
25080 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
25081 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
25082 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
25083 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
25084 want to do it differently.
25085 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
25086 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
25087 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
25088 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
25089 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
25093 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
25094 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
25095 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
25096 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
25097 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
25100 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
25101 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
25102 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
25103 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
25104 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
25106 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
25107 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
25108 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
25109 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
25110 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
25111 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
25112 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
25113 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
25114 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
25115 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
25116 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
25117 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
25120 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
25121 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
25122 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
25123 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
25124 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
25125 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
25126 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
25128 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
25129 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
25130 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
25131 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
25132 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
25133 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
25134 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
25135 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
25136 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
25137 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
25138 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
25139 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
25140 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
25141 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
25142 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
25143 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
25144 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25145 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
25146 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
25147 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
25148 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
25149 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
25150 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25153 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
25154 networkstatus vote.
25155 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
25156 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
25157 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
25159 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
25160 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
25161 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
25162 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
25164 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
25165 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
25166 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
25167 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25170 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
25171 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
25173 o Documentation changes:
25174 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
25175 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
25177 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
25180 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
25181 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
25182 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
25183 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
25184 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
25185 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
25188 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25189 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25190 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25191 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25192 the rest of bug 1074.
25193 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25194 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25195 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25196 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25197 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25198 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
25199 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25200 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25201 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25202 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25203 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25204 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25205 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25206 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25209 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
25210 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
25211 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
25212 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
25213 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
25214 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
25215 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
25216 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
25217 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
25218 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
25219 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
25220 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
25221 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
25222 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
25224 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25225 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
25226 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
25227 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
25228 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25229 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
25231 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
25232 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
25233 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
25234 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
25235 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
25236 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
25237 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
25238 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
25239 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
25240 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25241 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
25242 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
25243 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
25244 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
25245 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
25246 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
25247 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
25248 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
25249 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
25250 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
25251 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
25252 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
25253 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
25254 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25255 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
25256 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
25258 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
25259 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
25260 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
25261 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
25262 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
25263 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
25265 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
25266 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
25267 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
25269 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25270 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
25271 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
25272 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
25273 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
25274 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
25275 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
25276 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25277 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
25278 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25279 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
25280 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
25281 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
25285 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
25286 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
25287 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
25288 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
25289 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
25290 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
25291 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
25292 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
25293 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
25294 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
25295 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
25296 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
25298 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25300 o Minor features (log subsystem):
25301 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
25302 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
25303 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
25305 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
25306 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
25308 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
25309 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
25310 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
25313 o Packaging changes:
25314 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25315 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25316 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25319 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
25320 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
25321 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
25322 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25323 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25324 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
25327 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25328 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25329 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25330 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25331 the rest of bug 1074.
25332 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25333 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25334 Found by "piebeer".
25335 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25336 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25337 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25338 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25339 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25340 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25341 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25344 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25346 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25349 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25350 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25351 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
25352 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25353 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25354 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25355 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25356 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25357 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25358 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25359 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25361 o Packaging changes:
25362 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25363 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25364 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25365 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
25366 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
25367 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
25370 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
25371 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
25372 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
25373 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25374 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25375 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
25378 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25379 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25380 Found by "piebeer".
25381 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
25382 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
25383 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
25384 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
25387 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25389 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
25390 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
25391 Implements ticket 2432.
25394 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25395 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25396 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
25399 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
25400 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
25401 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
25402 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
25403 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
25404 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25406 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25407 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25408 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25409 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25411 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25412 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25413 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25414 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25415 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25416 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25417 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25418 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25420 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25421 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25422 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25423 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25424 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25425 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25426 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25427 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25428 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25429 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25430 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25431 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25432 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25433 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25436 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25437 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25438 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25439 bug reported by doorss.
25440 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25441 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25442 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25443 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25444 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25446 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25447 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25448 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25449 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
25450 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25452 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25453 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25454 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25456 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25457 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25458 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25459 Automake 1.7 or later.
25460 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25461 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25462 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25463 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25465 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25466 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
25467 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
25470 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25471 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
25472 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
25473 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
25475 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25476 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
25477 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
25478 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
25479 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
25480 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
25481 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
25482 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
25483 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
25485 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
25486 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
25487 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
25490 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25491 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
25492 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
25493 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
25494 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
25495 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
25496 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
25497 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
25498 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
25499 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
25500 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
25501 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
25502 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
25504 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25505 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
25509 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
25510 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
25511 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
25512 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
25513 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25515 o Major bugfixes (security):
25516 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25517 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25518 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25520 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25521 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25522 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25523 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25524 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25525 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25526 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25527 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25529 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25530 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25531 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25532 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25533 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25534 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25535 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25536 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25537 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25538 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25539 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25540 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25541 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25542 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25545 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25546 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25547 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25548 bug reported by doorss.
25549 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25550 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25551 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25552 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25553 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25555 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25556 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25557 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25558 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
25559 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25560 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25561 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25562 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25563 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25566 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25567 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25570 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25571 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25572 Automake 1.7 or later.
25575 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
25576 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25577 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
25578 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
25579 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
25582 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25583 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25584 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25585 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25586 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
25587 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
25588 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
25589 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
25590 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
25591 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
25592 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
25594 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
25595 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
25596 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
25597 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
25599 o Directory authority changes:
25600 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25603 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
25604 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
25605 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
25606 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
25607 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
25608 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25609 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
25610 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
25611 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
25614 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25615 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
25616 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
25617 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
25618 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
25619 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
25620 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
25621 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
25622 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
25623 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
25627 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
25628 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25629 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
25630 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
25634 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25635 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25636 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25637 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25639 o Directory authority changes:
25640 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25643 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25646 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
25647 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25648 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
25649 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
25650 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
25653 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25654 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25655 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25656 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25657 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25658 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25659 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25660 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25661 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25662 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25663 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25664 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25665 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25666 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25667 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25668 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25669 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25670 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25671 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
25672 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
25673 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
25674 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
25675 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
25678 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
25679 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
25680 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
25681 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
25683 o New directory authorities:
25684 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
25688 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
25689 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
25690 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
25692 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25693 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25694 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
25695 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
25696 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
25697 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
25699 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
25700 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
25701 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
25704 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
25705 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
25706 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
25707 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
25708 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
25709 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
25710 Patch from mingw-san.
25713 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
25714 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
25715 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
25716 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
25717 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
25718 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
25721 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
25722 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25723 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
25726 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25727 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25728 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25729 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25730 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25733 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
25734 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
25735 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
25736 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
25737 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
25738 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
25739 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
25740 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
25741 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
25744 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
25745 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
25746 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
25747 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
25748 to a stable release.
25751 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25752 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25753 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25754 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25755 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25756 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25757 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25758 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25759 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25760 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25761 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25762 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25763 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25764 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
25765 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
25766 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
25767 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
25768 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
25769 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
25770 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
25771 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
25772 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
25773 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
25774 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
25775 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25776 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
25777 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
25778 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
25779 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
25780 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
25781 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
25784 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25785 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
25786 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
25787 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
25788 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
25789 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
25790 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25791 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25792 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25793 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25794 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25795 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25796 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25797 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25798 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
25799 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
25800 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
25802 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25803 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25804 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
25805 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
25806 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
25808 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
25809 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
25810 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
25811 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
25814 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
25815 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
25816 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
25817 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
25818 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
25819 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
25820 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
25821 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25823 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25824 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
25825 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
25826 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
25827 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
25828 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
25829 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
25830 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
25831 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
25832 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
25833 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
25834 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
25835 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
25836 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
25837 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
25840 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
25841 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
25842 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
25843 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
25844 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
25845 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
25846 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
25847 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
25848 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
25851 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
25852 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
25853 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
25854 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
25855 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
25857 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
25858 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
25859 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
25860 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
25861 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
25862 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
25863 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25864 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
25865 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
25866 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
25867 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
25868 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
25869 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
25870 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
25872 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25873 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
25875 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
25876 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25877 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
25878 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
25879 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
25880 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
25881 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
25882 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
25883 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25884 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
25885 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
25886 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
25887 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
25888 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
25889 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
25890 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
25891 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
25892 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25894 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
25895 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
25896 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
25897 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
25898 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
25899 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
25900 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
25901 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
25902 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
25903 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
25904 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
25905 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
25906 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
25908 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
25909 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
25910 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
25911 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25914 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
25915 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
25916 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
25917 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
25918 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
25919 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
25920 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
25921 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
25922 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
25923 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
25924 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
25925 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
25926 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
25927 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
25928 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
25929 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
25930 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
25931 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
25932 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
25935 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25936 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
25937 based on the time during which we were active and not in
25938 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
25939 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
25940 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
25941 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
25942 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25944 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25945 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
25946 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
25947 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
25948 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
25949 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
25950 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
25951 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
25952 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
25953 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25956 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
25957 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
25958 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
25959 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
25961 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
25962 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
25963 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
25964 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
25965 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
25966 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
25967 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
25968 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
25969 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
25970 the longest-lived bug prize.
25971 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
25972 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
25973 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
25974 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
25975 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
25976 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
25978 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
25979 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
25980 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
25981 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
25982 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
25983 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
25987 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25988 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
25989 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
25990 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
25991 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
25992 got suppressed since the last warning.
25993 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
25994 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
25995 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
25996 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
25997 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
25998 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
25999 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
26000 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
26001 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
26002 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
26003 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
26004 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
26005 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
26006 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
26007 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
26008 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
26009 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
26010 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
26011 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
26013 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
26014 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
26015 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
26017 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26018 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
26019 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
26020 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
26021 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
26022 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
26023 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
26024 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
26025 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
26026 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
26027 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
26028 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
26029 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
26030 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
26031 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
26033 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
26034 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
26035 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
26036 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
26037 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
26038 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26039 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
26041 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
26042 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
26043 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
26044 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
26045 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
26048 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26049 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
26050 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
26051 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
26052 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
26053 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
26054 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
26055 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
26056 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
26057 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
26058 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26059 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
26060 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
26061 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
26062 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
26063 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
26064 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
26065 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
26068 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
26071 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
26072 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
26073 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
26074 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
26075 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
26079 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
26080 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
26081 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
26082 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
26083 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
26084 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
26085 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
26086 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
26087 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
26088 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
26089 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
26090 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
26091 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
26092 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
26093 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
26094 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
26095 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
26098 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
26099 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
26100 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
26101 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
26102 they first get the Guard flag.
26103 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
26107 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26108 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
26109 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
26110 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
26111 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
26112 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
26113 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
26114 Patch from mingw-san.
26115 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
26116 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
26118 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
26119 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
26120 Implements enhancement 1790.
26122 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26123 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
26124 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
26125 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
26126 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
26127 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
26128 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
26129 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
26130 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
26131 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
26132 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
26133 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
26134 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26135 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
26136 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
26137 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
26138 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
26139 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
26140 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
26141 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
26143 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
26144 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
26145 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
26146 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
26147 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
26148 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
26149 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
26150 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
26151 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
26152 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
26153 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
26154 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
26155 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
26157 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
26158 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
26159 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
26160 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
26161 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
26162 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
26164 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26165 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
26166 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
26167 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
26168 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
26169 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
26170 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
26171 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26172 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
26173 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
26174 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
26175 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
26177 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
26178 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
26179 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
26180 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
26181 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
26182 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
26183 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
26185 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
26187 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
26188 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
26189 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
26190 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
26191 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
26192 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
26194 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26195 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
26196 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
26197 structures and defines in or.h for now.
26198 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
26199 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
26200 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
26201 statistics code to be more easily tested.
26202 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
26203 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
26204 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
26207 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
26208 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
26209 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
26210 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
26211 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
26212 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
26216 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
26217 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
26218 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
26219 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
26220 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
26221 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
26222 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
26223 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
26224 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
26225 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
26226 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
26227 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
26228 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
26230 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
26231 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
26232 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
26233 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
26234 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
26235 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
26236 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
26237 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
26238 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
26239 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
26240 can be controlled by the consensus.
26243 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
26244 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
26245 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
26246 more accurate data for many African countries.
26247 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26248 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26249 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26250 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
26251 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
26252 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
26253 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
26254 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
26255 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
26256 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26257 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
26258 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
26260 o New directory authorities:
26261 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
26265 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
26266 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
26267 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
26268 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
26269 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
26270 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
26271 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
26272 what should go in a patch.
26273 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
26274 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
26275 over our stored history.
26276 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
26277 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
26278 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
26279 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
26280 file. Fixes bug 1296.
26281 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
26282 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
26283 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
26287 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26289 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
26290 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
26291 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
26292 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
26293 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
26294 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
26295 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
26296 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
26297 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
26298 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
26299 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
26300 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26301 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
26302 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
26303 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
26304 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
26305 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
26306 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
26307 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
26308 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
26309 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
26310 two-hop circuits are actually created.
26311 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
26312 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26313 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
26314 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26317 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
26318 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26319 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26320 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26321 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26323 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
26324 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26327 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26328 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26329 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26330 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26331 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26332 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26333 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26334 their directory fetches over TLS).
26335 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26336 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26337 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26338 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26339 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26340 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26341 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26342 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26345 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26346 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26350 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26351 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26352 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26353 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26354 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26355 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26356 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26359 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
26360 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26361 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26362 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26363 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26366 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26367 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26368 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26369 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26370 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26371 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26372 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26373 their directory fetches over TLS).
26376 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26377 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26379 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
26380 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
26381 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
26382 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
26383 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
26384 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
26385 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
26386 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
26387 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
26388 hour of their uptime.
26391 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
26392 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
26393 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
26397 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
26398 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
26399 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
26400 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
26401 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
26402 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
26404 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
26405 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
26406 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
26408 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
26409 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
26413 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
26414 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
26415 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
26419 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
26420 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
26421 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26424 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26425 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26426 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26427 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26428 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
26429 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
26430 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
26431 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
26432 about the option without breaking older ones.
26433 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26434 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26435 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26436 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26439 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
26440 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
26441 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
26442 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
26444 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
26445 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
26446 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
26449 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
26450 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
26452 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
26453 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
26454 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
26455 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
26456 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
26457 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
26458 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26459 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
26460 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
26461 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
26462 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
26465 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26466 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26467 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26468 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26469 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26470 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26471 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26474 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
26475 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
26476 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
26477 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
26478 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
26479 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
26482 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26483 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26484 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26485 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
26487 o Major features (performance):
26488 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
26489 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
26490 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
26491 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
26492 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
26493 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
26494 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
26496 o Minor features (performance):
26497 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
26498 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
26499 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
26500 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
26501 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
26505 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
26506 speeds up the build considerably.
26508 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26509 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
26510 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26511 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
26512 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26513 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
26514 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
26515 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26517 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
26518 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26519 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26521 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26522 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26523 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26524 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26526 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26527 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
26528 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
26529 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
26530 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
26531 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
26534 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
26535 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
26536 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
26538 o Directory authority changes:
26539 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26540 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26541 service directory authority) from the list.
26544 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26545 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26546 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26547 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26548 libraries in a security patch.
26549 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26550 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26551 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26552 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26554 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
26555 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
26556 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
26557 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
26558 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26559 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26560 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26563 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
26564 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
26565 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
26566 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
26567 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
26568 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
26569 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
26570 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
26571 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
26572 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
26573 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
26574 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
26575 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
26577 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
26578 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
26579 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
26580 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
26581 control-spec.txt said they were.
26582 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26583 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26584 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
26585 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
26586 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26588 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26589 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
26590 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
26591 produce nicer HTML.
26592 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
26593 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
26594 iPhone SDK versions.
26595 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
26596 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
26597 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
26598 projects directory in svn.
26599 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
26600 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
26601 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
26602 high latency links.
26605 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
26606 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
26607 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
26609 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
26610 to the circuit build timeout.
26611 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
26612 arguments we do not recognize.
26613 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
26614 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
26615 open() without checking it.
26618 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
26619 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
26620 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
26621 several minor potential security bugs.
26624 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26625 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26626 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26627 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
26628 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26629 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26630 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26633 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26634 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26636 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26637 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26638 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26639 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26643 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
26644 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
26648 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
26649 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
26650 customized patches to run/build.
26653 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
26654 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
26655 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
26658 o Major bugfixes (performance):
26659 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26660 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26661 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26662 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26663 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26664 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26665 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26668 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26669 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26670 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26671 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26672 libraries in a security patch.
26673 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26674 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26675 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26676 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26679 o Directory authority changes:
26680 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26681 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26682 service directory authority) from the list.
26685 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26686 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26689 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26690 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26691 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26692 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26693 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26696 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
26697 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
26698 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
26702 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
26703 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
26704 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
26705 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
26706 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26709 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
26710 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
26711 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
26715 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
26716 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
26717 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
26718 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
26719 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
26721 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
26722 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
26724 o Directory authority changes:
26725 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
26728 o Major features (performance):
26729 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26730 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26731 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26732 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26733 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26734 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26735 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26736 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
26737 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
26738 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
26739 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
26740 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
26741 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
26743 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
26744 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
26745 but never per-conn write limits.
26746 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
26747 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
26748 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
26749 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
26751 o Major features (relay selection options):
26752 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
26753 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
26754 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
26755 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
26756 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
26757 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
26758 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
26760 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
26761 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
26763 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
26764 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
26765 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
26766 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
26767 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
26768 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
26769 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
26770 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
26771 the network changes.
26774 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
26775 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
26776 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26779 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
26780 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
26781 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
26782 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
26783 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
26784 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
26785 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
26786 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
26787 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
26788 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
26789 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
26790 generated while acting as a relay.
26791 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
26792 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26793 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26794 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26795 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26796 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26798 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
26799 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
26800 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26801 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
26802 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
26803 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
26806 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
26807 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
26808 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
26810 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
26811 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
26812 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
26814 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
26815 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
26817 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
26818 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
26819 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
26821 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
26822 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
26825 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26826 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
26827 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26828 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
26829 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
26830 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
26831 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
26832 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
26833 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
26835 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
26838 o Removed features:
26839 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
26840 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
26841 hidden service usage.
26844 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
26845 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
26846 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
26847 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
26848 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
26850 o Directory authority changes:
26851 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
26855 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
26856 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
26857 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26860 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
26861 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
26862 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
26863 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
26864 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
26867 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
26868 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
26869 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
26870 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
26871 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
26872 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
26873 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
26876 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
26877 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
26878 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26879 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
26880 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
26881 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
26883 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
26884 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
26887 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
26888 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
26889 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
26890 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
26891 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
26892 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
26895 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
26896 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
26897 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
26899 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
26900 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
26901 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
26902 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
26903 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
26904 download consensus + microdescriptors".
26905 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
26906 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
26907 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
26908 hash algorithm in the future.
26909 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
26910 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
26911 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
26912 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
26913 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
26914 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
26915 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
26916 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
26917 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
26920 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
26921 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
26922 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
26923 won't work unless we say we are.
26926 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
26927 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
26928 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
26929 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
26930 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
26931 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
26932 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
26933 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
26934 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26935 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
26936 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
26937 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
26938 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
26939 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
26940 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
26941 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
26942 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
26943 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
26944 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
26945 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
26946 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
26947 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
26950 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
26951 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
26952 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
26953 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
26955 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
26956 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
26958 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
26959 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
26960 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
26961 in the Vidalia Settings window.
26964 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
26965 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
26966 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
26967 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
26968 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
26970 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
26971 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
26973 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
26974 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
26975 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
26978 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
26979 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
26980 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
26982 o New directory authorities:
26983 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
26985 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
26988 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
26989 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
26991 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
26992 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
26993 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26994 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
26995 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
26996 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
26997 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26998 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
26999 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27000 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27001 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27002 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27003 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27004 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27005 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27006 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27007 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27009 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27010 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27011 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
27013 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27014 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27018 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27019 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27020 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27021 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27022 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27025 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
27026 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27029 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27031 o Directory authorities:
27032 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
27036 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
27037 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
27038 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
27039 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
27040 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
27043 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
27044 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
27045 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
27046 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
27048 o New directory authorities:
27049 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
27052 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
27053 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
27054 SSL handshake issues.
27055 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
27056 during the TLS handshake.
27057 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
27058 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
27059 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
27060 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
27061 none of which are very big.
27064 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
27066 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
27067 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27068 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
27069 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
27070 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27071 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
27072 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
27073 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27076 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27077 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
27078 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
27079 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
27080 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
27083 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
27084 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27087 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
27088 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
27091 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
27092 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
27093 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27096 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
27097 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
27098 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
27099 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
27100 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
27101 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
27104 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
27105 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
27106 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
27107 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
27108 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
27109 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
27110 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
27111 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
27112 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
27113 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
27114 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
27115 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
27116 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
27117 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
27118 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
27119 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
27120 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
27121 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
27124 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
27125 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
27129 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
27130 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
27131 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27132 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
27133 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
27134 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
27135 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27136 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
27137 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
27138 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
27139 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27140 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27141 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27142 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27143 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27144 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27145 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27146 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27147 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27148 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27149 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27151 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27152 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27153 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
27154 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27155 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27156 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27158 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
27159 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
27160 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
27163 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27164 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27165 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27166 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27167 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27168 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
27171 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
27172 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
27173 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
27174 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
27175 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
27178 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
27179 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
27180 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
27183 o New directory authorities:
27184 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
27188 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
27189 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
27190 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
27191 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
27192 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
27195 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
27196 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
27197 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
27198 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
27199 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
27202 o New options for gathering stats safely:
27203 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
27204 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
27205 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
27206 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
27207 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
27208 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
27209 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
27210 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27211 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
27213 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
27214 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
27215 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27216 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
27218 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
27219 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
27220 their extra-info documents.
27223 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
27224 source files Tor was built with.
27225 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
27226 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
27227 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
27228 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
27229 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
27230 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
27232 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
27233 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
27234 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
27235 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
27236 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
27238 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
27239 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
27242 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
27243 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
27244 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
27245 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
27246 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27248 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
27249 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
27251 o Deprecated and removed features:
27252 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
27253 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
27254 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
27255 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
27256 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
27257 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
27258 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
27259 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
27261 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
27262 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
27263 via application-level web tricks.
27265 o Packaging changes:
27266 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
27267 installer bundles. See
27268 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
27269 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
27270 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
27271 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
27272 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
27273 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
27274 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27275 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
27276 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27277 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
27278 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
27279 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
27282 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
27283 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
27284 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
27287 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
27288 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
27289 part of patch provided by "optimist".
27292 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
27293 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
27294 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
27295 and confuse fewer users.
27298 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
27299 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
27300 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
27301 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
27302 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
27303 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
27304 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
27307 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
27308 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
27309 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
27310 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
27311 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
27312 other features and bug fixes.
27315 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
27318 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
27319 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
27320 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
27321 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
27322 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
27325 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
27326 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
27327 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
27328 failure message (oops).
27331 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
27332 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
27333 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
27334 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
27338 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
27339 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
27340 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
27341 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
27342 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
27343 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
27344 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27345 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
27346 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
27347 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
27348 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
27349 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
27350 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
27351 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
27352 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27355 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
27356 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27357 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
27358 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
27359 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
27360 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
27361 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
27362 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
27363 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
27364 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
27365 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
27366 Workaround for bug 1024.
27367 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
27371 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
27372 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
27373 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
27376 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
27378 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27379 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27380 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27381 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27382 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27385 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27386 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27387 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27388 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27389 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27390 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27391 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27392 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27393 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27394 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27397 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27398 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27399 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
27400 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27401 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27402 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27403 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27404 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27407 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
27408 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
27409 a bunch of minor bugs.
27412 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27413 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27414 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27416 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
27417 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
27418 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
27419 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
27421 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
27425 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27426 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
27427 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
27429 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27430 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
27432 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
27433 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
27435 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
27436 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
27437 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
27438 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27439 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27440 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27441 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27442 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27444 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27445 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
27446 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
27448 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
27449 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
27450 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
27451 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
27452 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
27456 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
27457 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27458 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
27459 of more minor bugs.
27461 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27462 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27463 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27464 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27466 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27467 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
27468 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
27469 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27470 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
27471 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
27472 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
27473 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
27474 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
27475 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
27476 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
27477 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27478 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
27479 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
27480 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
27481 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
27482 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
27484 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
27485 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
27486 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
27487 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27489 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27490 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
27491 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27494 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
27495 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27496 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
27497 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
27498 addresses to fall out of the directory.
27501 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
27502 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
27503 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
27504 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
27506 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
27507 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27508 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27509 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27510 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27511 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27512 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27513 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27514 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
27515 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
27516 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
27517 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
27518 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
27519 patch by Sebastian.
27520 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27521 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27524 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
27525 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
27526 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
27527 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
27528 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
27529 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
27531 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
27532 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
27533 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
27534 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
27535 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
27537 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27540 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
27541 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
27543 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
27544 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
27545 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27546 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27547 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27548 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27550 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
27551 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27552 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
27553 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
27554 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
27555 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27556 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
27557 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
27558 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
27559 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
27560 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
27561 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
27565 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
27566 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
27567 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
27570 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
27571 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
27572 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27574 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
27575 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
27576 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
27577 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
27578 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
27579 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
27580 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
27581 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
27582 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
27583 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
27584 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
27585 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27586 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
27587 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
27588 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
27589 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
27590 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
27591 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
27592 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
27593 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
27594 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
27595 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
27596 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
27597 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
27598 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
27599 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
27601 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
27602 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
27603 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
27604 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
27605 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
27606 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
27607 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
27608 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
27609 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
27610 of 0. Suggested by lark.
27612 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27613 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
27614 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
27615 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
27616 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27619 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
27621 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
27622 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
27623 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
27624 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
27627 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
27628 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
27629 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
27630 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27631 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
27633 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
27634 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
27635 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
27636 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27639 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27640 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27641 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27642 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27643 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27644 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
27645 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
27646 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
27649 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
27650 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27651 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27652 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27655 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
27656 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
27657 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
27658 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27659 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
27660 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
27663 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27664 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27665 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27666 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27667 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27668 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27671 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
27672 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
27673 reported by Matt Edman.
27674 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
27676 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
27677 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
27678 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
27679 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
27681 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
27682 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27683 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
27684 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27685 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27686 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27687 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
27688 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
27689 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
27690 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
27691 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
27692 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
27693 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
27694 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
27695 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
27696 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27697 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
27698 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
27699 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27702 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
27703 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27704 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
27705 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
27708 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
27709 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
27710 the letter of C99's alias rules.
27713 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
27714 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
27715 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
27716 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
27718 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
27719 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
27720 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
27723 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
27724 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
27727 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
27728 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
27729 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
27730 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
27731 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
27732 reported by "wood".
27733 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
27734 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
27735 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
27736 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
27737 identify a connection.
27738 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
27739 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
27740 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
27741 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
27742 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
27743 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
27744 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27745 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
27746 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
27747 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
27749 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
27750 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
27751 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
27752 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
27753 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
27754 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
27755 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
27758 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
27759 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
27761 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
27762 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
27763 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
27764 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
27765 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
27766 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
27767 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27768 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
27770 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27771 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
27772 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
27773 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
27774 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
27775 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
27776 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
27777 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
27778 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
27779 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
27780 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
27781 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
27782 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
27783 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
27784 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27785 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
27786 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
27787 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27788 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
27789 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
27790 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
27791 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
27792 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
27793 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
27794 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
27795 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
27796 840. Patch from rovv.
27797 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
27798 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
27799 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
27801 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
27802 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
27803 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
27804 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
27805 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
27806 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
27807 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
27809 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27810 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
27811 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
27814 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
27815 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
27817 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
27818 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
27819 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
27820 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
27821 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
27822 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
27823 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
27824 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
27825 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
27827 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
27829 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
27830 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
27834 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
27835 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
27836 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
27837 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
27838 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
27839 have had some time to upgrade.)
27842 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
27843 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
27846 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
27847 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
27848 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
27849 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
27850 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
27853 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
27854 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
27856 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
27857 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27858 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
27859 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
27860 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
27861 entirely. Patch from coderman.
27864 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
27865 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
27866 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
27867 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
27868 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
27869 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27870 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
27874 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
27875 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
27876 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
27877 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
27878 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
27879 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
27880 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
27883 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
27884 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
27885 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
27886 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
27887 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
27889 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
27890 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
27891 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
27892 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
27893 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
27894 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
27895 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27896 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
27897 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
27898 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
27902 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
27903 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
27904 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
27906 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
27907 without support for deprecated functions.
27908 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
27910 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27911 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
27912 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
27913 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
27914 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27915 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
27916 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
27917 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
27918 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
27919 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
27920 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
27921 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
27922 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
27923 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
27924 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
27925 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
27926 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
27927 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
27928 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
27929 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
27930 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
27931 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
27932 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
27934 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27935 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
27936 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
27937 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
27938 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
27939 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
27941 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
27942 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
27943 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
27944 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
27945 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
27947 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
27948 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
27949 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
27951 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
27952 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
27955 o Deprecated and removed features:
27956 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
27957 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
27958 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
27961 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27962 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
27963 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
27964 with log.h on Android.
27965 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
27966 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
27969 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
27970 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
27972 o New directory authorities:
27973 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
27977 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
27978 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
27979 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
27980 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
27981 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
27982 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27985 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
27986 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
27987 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
27988 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
27989 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
27990 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
27991 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
27992 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
27993 reported by "wood".
27994 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27995 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
27996 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
27997 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
28000 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
28001 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
28003 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
28004 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
28005 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
28006 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
28007 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
28008 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
28009 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
28010 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
28011 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
28012 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28013 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
28014 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28015 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
28016 Implements proposal 148.
28017 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
28018 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
28019 system to do it for us.
28020 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
28021 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
28022 this fix will be slightly helpful.
28023 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
28024 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
28025 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
28026 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
28027 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
28028 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
28029 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
28030 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
28031 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
28034 o Minor features (controller):
28035 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
28036 been fetched and validated.
28037 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
28038 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
28039 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
28040 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
28041 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
28042 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
28045 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
28046 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28047 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
28048 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
28049 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
28051 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
28052 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
28053 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28054 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
28055 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
28056 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28057 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
28058 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
28059 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
28061 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28062 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
28063 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
28064 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
28065 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
28066 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
28067 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
28068 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
28070 o Deprecated and removed features:
28071 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
28073 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
28074 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
28075 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
28077 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28078 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
28079 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
28081 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
28082 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
28083 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
28084 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
28085 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
28086 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
28089 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
28090 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
28091 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
28092 fixes a variety of other issues.
28095 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
28096 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
28097 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
28098 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
28101 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
28102 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
28103 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
28104 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28107 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28108 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28109 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
28113 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
28115 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
28116 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
28117 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28118 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
28119 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
28120 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
28121 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28123 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
28124 rest, and don't automatically fail.
28125 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
28126 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28127 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
28128 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
28130 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
28131 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
28132 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
28133 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
28134 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
28135 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
28136 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
28137 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
28138 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
28139 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
28141 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
28145 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
28146 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
28147 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
28149 o Minor features (controller):
28150 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
28154 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
28155 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28156 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28157 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28158 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28159 variety of other issues.
28162 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28163 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28164 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28165 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28166 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28167 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28168 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
28169 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28170 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28171 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28172 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28173 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28176 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28177 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28179 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28180 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28181 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28182 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28183 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28184 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28185 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28186 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28187 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28188 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
28189 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
28190 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
28191 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
28192 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
28193 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28197 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
28198 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28199 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28200 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28201 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28202 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28203 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28204 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28205 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28206 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28207 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28208 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28209 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28210 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28211 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
28212 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28213 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28214 list. It has been gone for many months.
28215 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28216 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
28217 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28220 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28221 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
28222 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
28225 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
28226 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28227 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28228 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28229 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
28230 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28231 variety of other issues.
28234 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28235 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28236 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28237 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28238 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28239 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28240 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28241 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28242 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28243 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28244 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28245 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
28246 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
28247 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
28250 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
28251 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
28252 Suggested by Lucky Green.
28253 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
28254 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
28255 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
28256 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
28257 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
28258 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
28260 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
28261 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
28263 o Hidden service performance improvements:
28264 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
28265 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
28266 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
28267 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
28268 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
28269 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
28270 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
28271 faster after restart.
28274 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
28275 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
28276 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
28277 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
28278 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
28279 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
28280 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
28281 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
28282 840. Patch from rovv.
28283 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
28284 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
28285 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
28286 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
28287 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
28288 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
28289 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
28290 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
28291 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
28293 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
28294 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
28295 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
28296 have already been marked for close.
28297 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
28298 introduction points.
28299 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
28300 memory performance during directory parsing.
28301 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
28302 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
28303 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
28304 because of a pending download.
28307 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
28308 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
28309 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
28310 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28313 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
28314 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
28315 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
28316 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
28317 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
28318 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
28319 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
28320 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
28321 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
28322 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
28323 lookups more reliable.
28324 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
28325 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
28326 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
28327 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
28328 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
28329 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
28330 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28333 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
28334 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
28335 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28336 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28337 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28338 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
28339 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
28340 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
28341 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
28342 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
28343 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28345 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28346 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28347 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28348 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28349 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28350 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28351 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
28352 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
28353 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28356 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
28357 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
28358 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
28359 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
28360 locked down these days.
28361 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
28362 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
28363 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
28364 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
28365 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
28367 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
28368 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
28369 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
28370 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
28371 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
28372 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
28373 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
28374 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
28375 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
28376 people find host:port too confusing.
28377 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
28378 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28379 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
28382 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28384 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
28385 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
28386 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28387 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28388 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
28390 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
28391 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
28392 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28393 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28394 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28395 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28396 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28397 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28398 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28399 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28400 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
28401 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
28403 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28404 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28405 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28406 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
28407 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28408 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
28409 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28410 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
28411 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
28413 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
28414 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
28415 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
28416 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
28417 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
28418 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28419 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
28420 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
28421 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
28422 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
28423 bug 820, reported by seeess.
28424 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28425 list. It has been gone for many months.
28427 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28428 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
28429 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
28430 actual mistakes we're making here.
28431 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
28432 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
28433 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
28434 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
28437 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
28438 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
28439 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
28440 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28443 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28444 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28445 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28446 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28447 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28448 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28450 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28451 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28452 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28453 pointed out by rovv.
28456 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28457 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28458 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28459 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28460 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
28461 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
28462 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28463 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28464 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28465 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28466 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28467 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
28468 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
28469 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28470 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28471 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28472 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28473 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28474 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
28475 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
28476 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28479 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
28480 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
28481 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
28482 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
28483 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
28484 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
28485 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28488 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
28490 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
28491 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
28492 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
28493 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
28494 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
28495 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
28496 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
28498 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
28499 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
28500 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
28501 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
28502 known descriptor before building circuits.
28504 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
28505 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
28506 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
28507 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
28508 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
28509 identify a connection.
28510 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28511 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28512 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28514 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28515 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28516 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28517 pointed out by rovv.
28520 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28521 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28522 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28523 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
28524 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
28525 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28526 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28527 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28528 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
28529 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
28530 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
28531 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28532 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28533 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28534 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28537 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
28538 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
28539 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
28540 answer sections match.
28541 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
28542 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
28545 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
28546 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28549 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
28550 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
28551 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
28553 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
28554 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
28555 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28558 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
28559 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
28560 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
28561 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
28564 o Removed features:
28565 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
28566 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
28569 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
28570 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
28571 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
28572 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
28573 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
28574 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
28576 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
28577 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
28578 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
28581 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
28582 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
28583 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
28584 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
28585 be sent using an "early" cell.
28588 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28589 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28590 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28591 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28592 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28593 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28594 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28597 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
28598 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
28599 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
28600 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
28601 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
28602 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
28603 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
28604 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
28605 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
28606 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
28607 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
28608 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
28609 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
28610 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
28611 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
28612 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
28615 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
28616 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
28617 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
28618 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28619 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28620 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28621 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
28622 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
28623 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
28625 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
28626 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
28627 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
28628 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
28629 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
28632 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28633 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
28634 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
28635 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28637 o Removed features:
28638 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
28639 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
28643 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
28645 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28646 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28647 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28650 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
28651 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
28652 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28655 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
28656 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
28657 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28658 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28659 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28660 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
28661 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
28662 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
28663 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28664 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28665 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
28666 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
28667 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
28668 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28669 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
28670 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
28671 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
28672 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
28673 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
28674 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
28675 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
28676 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
28677 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
28680 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
28681 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
28683 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
28684 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
28685 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
28686 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
28687 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
28688 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
28689 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
28691 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
28692 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
28693 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
28694 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
28695 found by Geoff Goodell.
28698 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
28699 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
28700 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
28701 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
28702 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
28703 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
28706 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
28707 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
28708 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
28711 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28712 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
28713 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28714 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28715 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28716 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28717 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
28718 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
28719 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28720 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
28721 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
28722 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
28723 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
28724 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
28727 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
28728 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
28729 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
28731 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
28732 fingerprints with or without space.
28733 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
28734 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
28735 partway through and wants to catch up.
28736 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
28737 state to start out in.
28740 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
28741 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
28742 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28743 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
28744 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
28747 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
28748 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
28749 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
28750 some of the connection attempts fail.
28751 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
28752 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
28753 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
28754 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
28755 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
28756 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
28758 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
28759 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
28760 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
28763 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
28764 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
28765 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
28766 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
28767 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
28768 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
28769 and adds a variety of smaller features.
28772 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
28773 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
28774 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
28775 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
28777 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
28778 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
28779 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
28780 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
28782 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
28783 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
28784 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
28785 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
28786 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
28787 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
28788 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
28791 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
28792 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
28793 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
28794 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
28795 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
28797 o Memory fixes and improvements:
28798 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
28799 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
28800 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
28801 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
28802 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
28803 on a typical directory cache.
28804 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
28805 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
28806 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
28807 and may reduce fragmentation.
28808 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
28809 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
28810 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
28812 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
28813 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
28814 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
28816 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
28817 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
28821 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
28822 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
28823 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
28824 done that for a long time.
28825 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
28826 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
28827 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
28828 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
28831 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
28832 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
28833 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
28834 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
28835 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
28836 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
28838 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
28839 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
28840 output to messages of warning and error severity.
28841 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
28842 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
28843 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
28844 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
28845 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
28846 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
28847 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
28848 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
28849 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
28850 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
28851 directory requests we should expect to see.
28852 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
28854 - Lots of new unit tests.
28855 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
28856 two parallel lists in lockstep.
28859 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
28860 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
28861 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28864 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
28865 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
28866 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
28867 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
28868 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
28869 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
28870 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
28873 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
28874 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
28875 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
28879 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
28880 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
28881 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
28884 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
28885 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
28886 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
28888 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
28889 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
28891 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
28892 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
28893 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
28894 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
28895 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28896 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
28897 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
28899 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
28900 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
28901 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
28902 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
28903 - Fix compile on Windows.
28906 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
28907 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
28908 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
28909 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
28910 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
28911 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
28912 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
28915 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
28916 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
28919 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
28920 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
28921 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
28922 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
28924 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
28925 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
28926 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
28929 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
28930 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
28931 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
28932 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
28936 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
28937 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
28938 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
28939 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
28941 o Major security fixes:
28942 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
28943 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
28944 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
28945 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
28946 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
28949 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
28950 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28953 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
28954 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
28957 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
28958 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
28961 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
28962 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
28963 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
28966 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
28967 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28970 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
28971 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
28972 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
28973 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
28974 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
28976 o New directory authorities:
28977 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
28978 it has been down for months.
28979 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
28983 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
28984 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
28986 o Minor features (security):
28987 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
28988 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
28989 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
28992 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
28993 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
28994 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
28995 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
28996 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
28997 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
28998 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
28999 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
29000 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29002 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
29003 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
29004 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29005 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
29006 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29007 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
29008 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29009 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
29010 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
29012 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
29013 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
29014 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
29015 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
29016 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
29017 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
29018 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
29019 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
29020 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
29021 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
29022 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29023 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
29024 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
29025 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
29026 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
29027 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
29028 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
29029 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
29030 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
29033 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
29034 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29035 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
29036 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
29039 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
29040 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
29041 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
29042 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
29045 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
29046 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29047 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
29048 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
29049 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
29052 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
29053 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
29054 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
29055 certain censored countries by default again.
29058 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
29059 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29060 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
29061 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
29062 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29063 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
29064 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
29065 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
29067 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29068 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
29069 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
29070 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
29071 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
29072 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
29073 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
29074 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
29075 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
29076 a directory. Fix from lodger.
29078 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29079 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
29080 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
29081 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
29082 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
29083 RelayBandwidth* values.
29084 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
29085 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
29086 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
29087 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
29088 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
29089 get_interface_address6().
29090 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
29091 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
29092 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
29094 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
29095 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
29096 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
29097 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29098 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
29099 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
29100 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29101 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
29102 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
29103 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29106 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
29107 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
29108 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
29111 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
29112 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29113 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
29114 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
29115 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
29118 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
29119 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
29120 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
29121 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
29122 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
29123 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
29124 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
29125 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
29126 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
29129 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
29130 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
29131 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
29132 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29135 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
29136 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29137 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
29138 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
29139 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
29140 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
29141 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
29144 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
29145 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
29146 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
29147 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
29148 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
29149 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
29150 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
29152 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
29153 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
29154 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
29155 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
29156 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
29159 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
29160 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
29161 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29162 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
29163 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
29164 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
29165 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29166 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
29167 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
29168 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
29169 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
29170 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
29171 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
29172 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
29173 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
29174 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29175 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
29176 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29177 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29178 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
29179 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
29180 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
29181 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
29182 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
29183 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
29184 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
29186 o Minor features (performance):
29187 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
29189 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
29190 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
29191 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
29192 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
29193 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
29194 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
29195 non-system include paths.
29196 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
29197 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
29200 o Minor features (other):
29201 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
29203 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
29204 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
29205 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
29208 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
29209 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
29210 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
29211 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
29213 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
29214 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
29215 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
29216 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
29217 Should fix bug 537.
29218 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
29219 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
29220 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29221 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
29222 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29224 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29225 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
29226 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
29227 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
29228 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
29229 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
29230 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
29231 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
29232 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
29233 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
29234 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
29235 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
29236 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
29237 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
29238 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
29239 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29240 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
29241 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
29242 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
29243 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
29244 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
29245 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
29246 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
29247 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
29248 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
29251 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29252 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
29253 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
29257 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
29258 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
29259 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
29260 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
29261 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
29264 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
29265 Tor's x509 certificates.
29268 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
29269 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
29270 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29271 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
29272 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
29273 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29275 o Minor features (security):
29276 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
29277 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
29279 o Minor features (directory authority):
29280 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
29281 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
29282 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
29283 bandwidthburst values.
29285 o Minor features (controller):
29286 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
29287 processes from running us out of memory.
29289 o Minor features (misc):
29290 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
29291 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
29292 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
29293 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
29295 o Deprecated features (controller):
29296 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
29297 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
29298 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
29301 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
29302 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
29304 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
29305 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
29306 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29307 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
29308 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
29309 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29310 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
29311 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
29313 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
29314 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29315 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
29316 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29317 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
29318 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
29319 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
29320 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
29322 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
29323 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
29324 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
29325 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
29326 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29327 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
29328 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29329 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
29330 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29331 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
29332 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
29333 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29335 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29336 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
29338 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
29339 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
29340 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
29341 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
29342 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
29343 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
29346 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
29347 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
29348 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
29349 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
29350 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
29352 o New directory authorities:
29353 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
29357 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
29358 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
29359 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
29360 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
29361 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
29362 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
29363 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
29364 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
29368 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
29369 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
29370 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
29371 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
29372 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
29373 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
29374 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
29375 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
29376 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
29377 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
29380 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
29381 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
29382 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
29383 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
29387 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
29388 the request isn't encrypted.
29389 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
29390 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
29391 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
29392 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
29393 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
29396 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
29397 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
29400 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
29403 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
29404 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
29405 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
29407 o New directory authorities:
29408 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
29411 o Major performance improvements:
29412 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
29413 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
29414 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
29415 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
29416 memory fragmentation.
29419 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
29420 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
29421 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
29422 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29423 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
29424 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
29425 bodies when they receive them.
29426 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
29427 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
29428 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
29430 o Minor performance improvements:
29431 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
29432 of them were actually distinct.
29433 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
29434 interested in a given message.
29437 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
29438 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
29439 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
29440 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
29441 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
29442 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
29443 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
29444 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
29445 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
29446 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
29447 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
29449 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
29450 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
29451 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
29452 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
29453 this country" and "1 person from this country".
29454 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29455 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
29456 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29457 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
29458 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
29460 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29461 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29462 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
29464 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
29465 but client versions are not.
29466 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29467 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29469 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
29470 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
29471 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29472 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
29473 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
29475 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
29476 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
29477 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
29480 o Minor features (controller):
29481 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
29482 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
29483 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
29484 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
29486 o Minor features (directory authorities):
29487 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
29488 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
29489 running a test network on a single host.
29490 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
29491 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
29493 o Minor features (bridges):
29494 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
29495 unencrypted connections.
29497 o Minor features (other):
29498 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
29499 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
29500 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
29501 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
29504 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
29505 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
29506 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
29507 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
29510 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29511 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29512 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29513 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29514 on network address.
29517 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
29518 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
29519 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29520 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
29521 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29522 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
29523 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29524 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29525 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
29526 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
29527 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
29528 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
29531 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29532 rebuild our server descriptor.
29533 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29534 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
29535 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
29536 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29537 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29538 nonstandard integer types.
29539 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
29540 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
29541 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
29542 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
29543 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
29545 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29546 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
29547 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
29548 when they receive them.
29549 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
29550 This includes some 64-bit systems.
29551 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
29552 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
29553 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
29554 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
29555 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29556 router_get_by_hexdigest().
29557 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29558 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29562 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
29563 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
29564 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29567 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
29568 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
29569 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
29570 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
29571 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
29572 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
29573 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
29574 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29577 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
29578 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
29579 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
29580 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
29582 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
29583 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
29586 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
29587 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
29590 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
29592 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
29593 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
29595 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
29596 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
29597 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
29598 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29599 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
29600 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
29601 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
29602 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29603 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
29604 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
29608 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
29609 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
29610 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
29613 - Make the unit tests build again.
29614 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
29615 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
29616 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
29617 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
29618 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
29619 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29620 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
29621 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
29622 the next one as a duplicate.
29625 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
29626 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
29627 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
29628 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
29631 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
29632 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
29633 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
29636 o New directory authorities:
29637 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
29641 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
29642 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
29643 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
29644 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
29645 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
29646 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29647 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
29649 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
29650 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
29652 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29653 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29654 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
29655 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
29656 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
29657 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
29659 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
29660 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
29661 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29662 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
29663 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
29664 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29667 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
29668 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
29669 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
29670 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
29671 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
29672 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
29673 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
29674 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
29675 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
29676 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
29677 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
29678 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
29679 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
29680 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
29681 where Tor is blocked.
29682 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
29683 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
29684 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
29685 to a file periodically.
29686 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
29687 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
29688 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
29692 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
29693 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
29694 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
29695 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
29696 in the relevant networkstatus document.
29697 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
29698 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
29699 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29700 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
29701 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
29702 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
29703 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
29704 by Karsten Loesing.
29705 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
29706 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
29707 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
29708 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
29709 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
29710 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29711 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
29712 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
29713 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
29714 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29715 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
29716 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
29717 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
29718 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29719 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29720 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
29721 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
29722 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29723 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29724 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29725 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29726 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
29727 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29728 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
29729 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
29730 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29731 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
29732 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29735 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
29736 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
29737 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
29738 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
29739 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
29740 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
29741 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
29742 even if your DirPort isn't on.
29743 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
29744 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
29745 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
29747 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
29748 multiple controller passwords.
29749 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
29750 router based on the router's purpose.
29751 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
29752 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
29753 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
29754 the approved-routers file.
29757 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
29758 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
29759 well as a few minor bugs.
29762 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
29763 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
29764 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
29766 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29767 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29768 rebuild our server descriptor.
29770 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29771 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
29772 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
29773 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
29774 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
29775 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
29776 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
29777 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
29778 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
29779 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
29781 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
29782 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
29783 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
29784 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
29785 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
29786 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
29787 then be flexible about families.
29790 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
29791 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
29792 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
29796 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
29797 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
29798 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
29799 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
29800 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
29803 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29804 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29805 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29806 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29807 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29810 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29811 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
29813 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
29814 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
29815 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
29816 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
29817 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
29818 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
29819 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29821 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
29822 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
29823 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
29824 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
29827 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
29828 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
29831 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
29832 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
29833 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29836 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
29837 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
29838 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
29839 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
29840 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
29841 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
29842 addresses many more minor issues.
29844 o New directory authorities:
29845 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
29848 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
29849 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
29850 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
29851 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
29853 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
29854 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
29855 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
29856 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
29857 and are reaching it.
29858 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
29859 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
29860 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
29861 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
29862 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
29863 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
29866 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
29867 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
29869 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
29870 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
29871 no longer work for clients.
29872 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
29873 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
29875 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
29876 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
29877 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
29878 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
29879 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
29880 enough directory information to build a circuit.
29881 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
29882 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
29883 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
29884 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
29885 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
29886 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
29888 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
29889 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
29890 requests for all of them.
29891 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
29893 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
29894 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
29895 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
29897 o New requirements:
29898 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
29899 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
29903 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
29904 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
29905 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
29906 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
29907 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
29908 networkstatuses that we already have.
29909 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
29910 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
29911 we start knowing some directory caches.
29912 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
29913 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
29914 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
29915 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
29916 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
29917 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
29918 Good in combination with --hash-password.
29919 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
29920 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
29922 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
29923 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
29924 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
29926 o Minor features (bridges):
29927 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
29928 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
29929 back to trying the bridge directly.
29930 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
29931 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
29933 o Minor features (controller):
29934 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
29935 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
29936 report the value as a "minimum skew."
29939 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
29940 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
29944 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
29945 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
29946 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
29947 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
29948 reported by tup and ioerror.
29949 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
29950 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
29952 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
29953 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
29955 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
29956 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
29957 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
29959 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
29960 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29961 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
29962 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29963 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
29964 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29965 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
29967 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
29968 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
29969 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29971 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
29972 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
29973 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
29974 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
29975 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
29978 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
29979 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
29980 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
29981 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
29982 lists for a few hours each day.
29984 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29985 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
29986 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
29987 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
29988 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
29989 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
29990 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
29991 rend_process_relay_cell().
29993 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
29994 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
29995 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
29996 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
29997 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
29998 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
29999 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
30000 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
30002 o Major bugfixes (other):
30003 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
30004 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
30005 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
30006 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30007 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30008 circuit cannibalization).
30009 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30010 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30011 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30012 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30013 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30014 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
30017 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30018 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
30020 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30021 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
30022 absent. Resolves bug 467.
30023 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
30024 a way to trigger this remotely.)
30025 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30026 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30027 were reporting the dir port.)
30028 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30029 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
30030 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30031 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30032 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30034 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30035 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30036 the onion key from getting rotated.
30037 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30038 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30039 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30040 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
30041 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30042 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30043 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30044 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
30045 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
30048 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
30049 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
30050 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
30051 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
30052 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
30053 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
30055 o Major features (directory system):
30056 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
30057 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
30058 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
30059 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
30060 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
30061 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
30062 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
30063 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
30064 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
30065 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
30066 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
30067 Partially implements proposal 122.
30068 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
30069 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
30072 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
30073 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
30074 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
30075 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
30077 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30078 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30079 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30080 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30081 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30082 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30083 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
30084 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
30085 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30087 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
30088 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
30090 - Allow certificates to include an address.
30091 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
30092 and download operations.
30093 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
30094 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
30095 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
30096 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
30097 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
30098 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
30100 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
30101 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
30104 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
30105 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
30106 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
30107 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
30109 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
30110 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
30111 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
30113 o Minor features (performance):
30114 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
30115 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
30116 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
30117 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
30118 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
30119 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
30120 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
30123 o Minor features (compilation):
30124 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
30125 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
30127 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30128 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
30129 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
30130 stick around indefinitely.
30131 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
30133 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
30134 v3 directory authority.
30135 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
30136 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
30138 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
30139 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
30140 "moria on moria:9031."
30141 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
30142 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
30143 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
30144 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
30145 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
30146 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
30147 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
30148 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
30150 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30151 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
30152 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
30153 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
30154 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
30155 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
30156 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
30157 downloads than for other types.
30159 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
30160 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
30162 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
30163 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
30164 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30166 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30167 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30168 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30169 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
30170 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
30171 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
30172 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
30173 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
30175 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30176 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
30177 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
30178 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
30179 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30180 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
30181 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
30182 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30183 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
30184 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
30185 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
30187 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
30188 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
30191 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30192 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
30193 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
30194 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
30195 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
30196 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
30197 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
30198 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
30199 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
30200 so that they all take the same named flags.
30203 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
30204 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
30205 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
30208 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
30209 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
30210 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
30211 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
30212 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
30213 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
30215 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
30216 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
30217 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
30218 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
30219 annotations along with descriptors.
30220 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
30221 source, and its purpose.
30222 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
30224 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
30225 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
30226 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
30227 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
30230 o Major features (directory authorities):
30231 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
30233 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
30234 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
30235 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
30236 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
30237 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
30238 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
30240 o Major features (v3 directory system):
30241 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
30242 and download the descriptors listed in them.
30243 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
30244 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
30245 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
30247 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30248 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
30249 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
30250 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
30253 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30254 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
30255 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
30256 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
30257 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
30259 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
30260 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
30261 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
30262 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
30263 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
30264 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
30266 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
30267 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
30269 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
30270 certificate is requested.
30271 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
30272 certificate requests.
30274 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
30275 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
30276 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
30277 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
30280 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30281 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30282 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30283 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30285 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
30286 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
30288 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
30289 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
30290 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30291 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
30292 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
30293 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
30294 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
30295 downloads more sensible.
30296 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
30297 another when serving certificates.
30299 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30300 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
30301 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
30302 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
30304 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
30305 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30306 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
30308 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30309 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30311 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
30312 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30313 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30314 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
30315 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30317 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
30318 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
30319 WARN-severity events.
30320 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30321 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
30322 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30324 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
30325 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
30326 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
30328 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30329 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30330 circuit cannibalization).
30332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30333 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
30334 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
30335 new module, networkstatus.c.
30336 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
30337 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
30338 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
30339 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
30340 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
30341 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
30342 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
30343 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
30344 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
30346 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
30348 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
30349 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30352 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
30353 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
30354 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
30355 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
30357 o New directory authorities:
30358 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
30359 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
30361 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30362 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30363 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30365 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
30366 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
30367 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
30368 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
30369 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30370 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
30371 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
30372 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
30373 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
30374 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
30375 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30377 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30378 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
30379 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
30380 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
30381 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
30382 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
30383 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
30384 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
30385 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
30387 o Minor features (security):
30388 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
30389 address maps to an internal address space.
30390 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
30391 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
30393 o Minor features (guard nodes):
30394 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
30395 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
30396 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
30397 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
30399 o Minor features (speed):
30400 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
30401 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
30402 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
30403 on big-endian hosts.)
30405 o Minor features (controller):
30406 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
30407 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
30408 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
30409 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
30412 o Removed features:
30413 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
30414 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
30415 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
30416 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
30417 implementation of proposal 104.
30418 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
30419 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
30420 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
30421 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
30422 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
30423 patch from Karsten Loesing.
30424 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
30425 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
30428 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30429 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
30430 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30431 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
30432 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30433 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
30434 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30435 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30436 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
30437 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30438 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
30439 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
30440 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
30441 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30442 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
30443 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
30444 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
30445 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30446 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
30447 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
30449 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30450 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
30451 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
30453 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
30454 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
30455 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
30456 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
30459 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
30460 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
30461 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
30462 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30463 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
30466 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
30467 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
30470 o Major bugfixes (security):
30471 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
30472 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
30473 become more of a headache than it's worth.
30475 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30476 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30477 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30479 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30480 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30481 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30482 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30483 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30484 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30486 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30487 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30488 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30489 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30490 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
30492 o Minor features (controller):
30493 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30494 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30495 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30496 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30498 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30499 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
30500 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
30501 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30502 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
30503 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
30504 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
30505 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30507 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30508 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30509 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30510 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
30511 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30512 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30513 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30514 if we ran off the end of the list.
30515 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30516 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30517 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30518 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30519 every time we change any piece of our config.
30520 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30521 encourage people using them to stop.
30522 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
30524 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30525 servers to choose a circuit.
30526 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30527 unparseable piece of it.
30530 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
30531 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
30532 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
30533 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30536 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
30537 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
30538 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
30539 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
30540 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
30542 o New directory authorities:
30543 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
30546 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
30547 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
30548 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
30549 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
30551 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30552 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30553 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30555 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30556 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30557 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30558 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30559 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30560 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30562 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
30563 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
30564 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30567 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
30568 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
30569 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
30570 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
30574 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
30575 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
30576 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
30577 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
30579 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
30580 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
30582 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
30583 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
30584 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
30585 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
30586 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
30587 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30588 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30589 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30590 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30591 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
30594 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
30595 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
30596 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
30597 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
30598 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
30599 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
30601 o Removed features:
30602 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
30603 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
30604 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
30605 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
30608 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
30609 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
30610 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
30611 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
30612 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
30615 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30616 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30617 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30618 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30619 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
30620 reported by lodger.
30622 o Minor features (directory servers):
30623 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
30624 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
30626 o Minor features (directory voting):
30627 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
30630 o Minor features (security):
30631 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
30632 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30633 encourage people using them to stop.
30635 o Minor features (controller):
30636 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30637 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30638 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30639 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30640 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
30641 cookie authentication file, and config option
30642 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
30644 o Minor features (unit testing):
30645 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
30646 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
30647 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
30648 logging for the unit tests.
30650 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
30651 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30652 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30653 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30654 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30655 every time we change any piece of our config.
30656 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30657 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30658 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30660 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30661 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30662 the onion key from getting rotated.
30663 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
30664 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
30665 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
30668 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30669 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
30670 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
30672 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
30673 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
30674 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
30675 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
30678 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
30679 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
30680 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
30681 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
30682 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
30683 TorK, etc. Or worse.
30685 o Major security fixes:
30686 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30687 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30690 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
30691 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
30692 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
30693 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
30695 o Major security fixes:
30696 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30697 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30699 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
30700 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
30703 o Minor features (performance):
30704 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
30705 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
30706 performance-intensive.
30707 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30708 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
30709 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
30710 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
30711 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30712 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
30716 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
30717 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
30718 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
30719 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
30723 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
30724 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
30725 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
30726 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
30727 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
30729 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
30730 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
30731 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
30732 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
30734 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
30735 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
30736 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
30737 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
30738 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
30740 o Major features (experimental):
30741 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
30742 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
30743 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
30744 handling before it's ready for use.
30747 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
30748 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
30749 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
30750 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30751 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
30752 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
30754 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
30755 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
30756 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
30757 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
30758 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
30760 o Major bugfixes (directory):
30761 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
30762 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30764 o Minor features (controller):
30765 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
30766 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30767 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
30768 from Robert Hogan.)
30769 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
30770 from Robert Hogan.)
30771 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
30772 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
30774 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
30775 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
30776 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
30777 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
30778 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30779 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
30780 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
30783 o Minor features (misc):
30784 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
30786 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
30787 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
30788 the authority identity key.
30789 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
30791 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
30792 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
30793 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
30796 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
30797 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30798 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30799 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
30800 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30801 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30802 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30803 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30805 o Performance improvements:
30806 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
30808 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
30809 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
30812 o Deprecated and removed features:
30813 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
30814 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
30815 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
30816 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
30818 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30819 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
30820 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30821 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
30822 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
30823 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30824 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
30825 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
30826 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
30829 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
30830 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
30831 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30832 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
30833 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
30835 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
30836 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
30839 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30840 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
30841 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
30842 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
30843 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
30844 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
30845 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
30846 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
30847 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
30850 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
30851 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
30852 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
30853 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
30855 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
30856 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
30858 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30859 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
30860 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
30861 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
30862 routerlist while inserting a new router.
30863 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
30864 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
30866 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
30867 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
30868 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
30870 o Major bugfixes (security):
30871 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
30873 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
30874 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
30875 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
30876 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
30877 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
30878 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
30879 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
30880 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
30881 guard list unless we need to.
30883 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
30884 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
30885 don't get overused as guards.
30887 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30888 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
30889 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
30890 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
30891 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
30893 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30894 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
30895 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
30898 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30899 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
30900 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
30901 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
30902 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
30903 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
30904 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
30905 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
30908 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
30909 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
30910 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
30911 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
30913 o Minor features (directory):
30914 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
30915 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
30916 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
30917 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
30919 o Minor build issues:
30920 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
30921 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
30922 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
30923 in the tarball, not as "x".
30926 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
30927 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
30928 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
30929 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
30930 forward on a lot of fronts.
30932 o Major features, server usability:
30933 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
30934 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
30935 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
30936 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
30938 o Major features, client usability:
30939 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
30940 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
30941 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
30942 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
30943 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
30944 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
30945 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
30946 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
30948 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
30949 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
30950 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
30951 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
30952 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
30953 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
30955 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
30956 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
30957 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
30959 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
30960 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
30961 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
30962 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
30963 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
30965 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
30966 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
30967 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
30968 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
30970 o Major features, other:
30971 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
30972 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
30973 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
30974 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
30975 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
30978 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
30979 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
30980 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
30983 o Minor fixes (resource management):
30984 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
30985 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
30986 our allocated connection limit.
30987 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
30988 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
30989 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
30990 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
30991 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
30993 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
30994 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
30995 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
30997 o Minor features (build):
30998 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
30999 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
31000 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
31001 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
31003 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
31004 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
31005 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
31006 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
31007 Use this version consistently in log messages.
31009 o Minor features (logging):
31010 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
31011 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
31012 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
31013 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
31014 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
31017 o Minor features (directory system):
31018 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
31019 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
31020 not to serve V2 directory information.
31021 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
31022 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
31023 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
31025 o Minor features (controller):
31026 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
31027 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
31029 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
31030 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
31031 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
31032 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
31033 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
31034 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
31036 o Minor features (hidden services):
31037 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
31038 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
31039 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
31040 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
31042 o Minor features (other):
31044 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
31045 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
31046 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
31047 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
31048 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
31049 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
31050 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
31051 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
31052 longer a completely silly thing to do.
31053 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
31054 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
31055 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
31056 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
31058 o Removed features:
31059 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
31060 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
31061 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
31062 back an error and close the connection.
31063 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
31064 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
31067 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
31068 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
31069 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
31070 makes the log messages nicer.
31071 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
31072 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31073 partial results on small file reads.
31075 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31076 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
31077 more often than they are allowed to appear.
31078 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
31079 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
31081 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
31082 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
31083 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
31084 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
31086 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31087 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
31088 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
31089 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
31090 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
31091 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
31092 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
31093 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
31094 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
31095 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
31096 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
31098 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
31099 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
31100 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
31102 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31103 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
31104 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
31105 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
31107 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31108 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
31109 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
31111 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
31112 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
31115 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31116 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
31117 implicit in other procedure arguments.
31118 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
31119 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
31120 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
31121 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
31122 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
31123 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
31124 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
31125 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
31126 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
31129 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
31130 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
31131 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
31132 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
31134 o Directory authority changes:
31135 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
31136 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
31137 or use hidden services.
31139 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31140 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
31141 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
31142 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
31143 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
31144 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
31145 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
31146 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
31147 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
31150 o Major bugfixes (security):
31151 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
31152 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
31153 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
31155 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
31156 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
31157 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
31158 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
31159 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
31160 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
31161 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
31162 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
31163 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
31164 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
31167 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
31168 purpose=controller.
31169 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
31170 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
31172 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
31173 having a hard time downloading.
31174 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31175 partial results on small file reads.
31176 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
31177 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
31178 the gaps in the store get very large.
31181 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
31182 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
31184 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
31185 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
31188 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
31189 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
31190 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
31191 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
31192 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
31193 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
31195 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
31196 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
31197 free speech on the Internet.
31200 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
31201 get one we don't recognize.
31202 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31203 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
31206 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
31208 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
31209 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
31210 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
31211 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
31214 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
31215 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
31218 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
31219 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
31220 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
31221 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
31222 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
31223 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
31224 ask for GUARDS too.
31227 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
31228 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31229 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
31230 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
31231 on Win98 and friends again.
31233 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31234 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
31235 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
31238 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
31239 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31240 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
31241 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
31242 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
31243 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
31244 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
31245 and maybe also bug 397.)
31247 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31248 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
31249 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
31251 o Minor bugfixes (server):
31252 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
31255 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
31256 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
31257 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
31258 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
31259 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
31261 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31262 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
31263 load on authorities.
31265 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31266 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
31267 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
31268 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
31270 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
31272 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
31273 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
31274 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
31275 the last of bug 326.)
31276 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
31277 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
31281 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
31282 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31283 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
31284 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
31285 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
31286 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
31287 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
31289 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
31290 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
31292 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31293 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
31294 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
31296 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
31297 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
31298 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
31300 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31301 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
31302 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
31303 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
31305 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
31306 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
31308 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
31309 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
31310 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
31313 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31314 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
31315 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
31316 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
31317 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
31318 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
31319 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
31320 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
31321 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
31322 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
31323 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
31324 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
31325 other than file-not-found.
31326 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
31327 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
31328 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
31329 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
31330 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
31331 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
31332 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
31333 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
31334 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
31335 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
31336 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
31337 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
31338 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
31339 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
31340 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
31342 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
31344 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
31345 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
31347 o Minor features (controller):
31348 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
31349 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
31350 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
31352 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
31353 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31354 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
31355 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
31356 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
31357 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
31358 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
31359 connected or resolved cell.
31361 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31362 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
31363 some profiles, but not others.)
31364 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
31365 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
31366 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
31369 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
31371 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
31372 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
31373 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
31374 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
31375 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
31376 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
31377 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
31378 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
31379 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
31380 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
31381 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
31382 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
31383 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
31384 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
31385 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
31387 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
31390 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
31391 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
31392 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
31393 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
31394 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
31395 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
31396 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
31398 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
31399 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
31400 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
31401 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
31402 buckets go absurdly negative.
31403 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
31404 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
31407 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
31408 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
31409 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
31410 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
31411 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
31412 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
31413 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
31414 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
31417 o Major bugfixes (other):
31418 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
31419 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
31420 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
31421 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
31423 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
31425 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
31426 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
31428 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
31429 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
31430 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
31431 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
31432 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
31433 to wait for 0.2.0.)
31435 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
31436 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
31437 possible memory-stomping bugs.
31438 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
31439 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
31441 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
31442 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
31443 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
31444 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
31445 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
31446 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
31448 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31449 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
31450 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
31451 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
31453 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
31454 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
31455 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
31456 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
31457 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
31458 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
31459 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
31460 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
31461 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
31462 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
31463 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
31464 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
31465 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
31467 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
31468 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
31469 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
31470 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
31471 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
31472 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
31473 to the resulting address.
31476 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
31477 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
31478 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
31479 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
31482 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
31483 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
31485 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
31486 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
31487 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
31488 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
31489 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
31490 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
31491 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
31492 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
31493 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
31494 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
31495 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
31496 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
31497 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
31498 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
31499 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
31500 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
31501 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
31504 o Minor features (controller):
31505 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
31506 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
31507 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
31508 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
31509 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
31510 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
31511 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
31515 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
31517 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
31518 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
31519 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
31520 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
31521 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
31522 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
31525 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
31526 weren't planning to resolve.
31527 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
31528 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
31529 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
31530 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
31531 the controller from learning about current events.
31533 o Minor features (more controller status events):
31534 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
31535 learn when our address changes.
31536 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
31537 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
31538 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
31539 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
31541 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
31542 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
31543 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
31544 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
31545 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
31546 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
31547 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
31548 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
31549 are accepted by a directory.
31550 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
31551 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
31552 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
31553 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
31554 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
31556 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
31557 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
31558 about changes to DNS server status.
31560 o Minor features (directory):
31561 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
31562 too much load to the exit nodes.
31565 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
31567 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
31568 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
31569 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
31570 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
31571 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
31573 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
31574 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
31575 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
31577 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
31578 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
31579 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
31580 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
31581 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
31582 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
31583 config options if you like.
31585 o Minor features (config and docs):
31586 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
31587 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
31588 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
31589 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
31590 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
31592 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
31593 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
31594 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
31595 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
31596 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
31598 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
31599 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
31600 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
31601 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
31602 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
31603 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
31604 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
31605 documentation: "make check-docs".
31606 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
31607 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
31609 o Minor features (DNS):
31610 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
31611 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
31612 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
31613 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
31614 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
31615 our tests for DNS hijacking.
31617 o Minor features (directory):
31618 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
31619 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
31620 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
31621 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
31622 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
31623 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
31624 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
31625 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
31626 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
31627 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
31628 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
31629 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
31630 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
31631 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
31632 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
31633 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
31634 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
31635 for the thing we're trying to download.
31636 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
31637 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
31638 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
31640 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
31641 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
31642 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
31645 o Minor features (controller):
31646 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
31647 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
31649 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
31650 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
31651 entry guard status as it changes.
31653 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
31654 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
31655 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
31656 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
31657 to set log options.
31658 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
31659 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
31660 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
31661 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
31664 o Major bugfixes (security):
31665 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31666 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31667 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31668 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31670 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
31671 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
31672 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
31673 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
31674 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
31676 o Major bugfixes (other):
31677 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
31678 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
31679 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
31680 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
31682 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
31683 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
31684 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
31685 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
31686 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
31687 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
31691 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31692 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31693 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
31694 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
31695 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
31697 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
31698 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
31700 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
31701 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
31702 family lists conveniently.
31703 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
31704 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
31705 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
31707 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
31708 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
31710 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
31711 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
31712 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
31713 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
31714 if their identity keys are as expected.
31715 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
31716 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
31717 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
31719 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31720 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
31721 reported by Mike Perry.
31722 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
31723 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
31724 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
31725 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
31728 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
31729 o Security bugfixes:
31730 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31731 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31732 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31733 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31737 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31738 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31739 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
31742 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
31744 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
31745 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
31746 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
31749 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
31750 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
31751 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
31752 watching for STREAM events.
31753 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
31754 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
31755 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
31756 operations, for profiling.
31759 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
31760 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
31761 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
31762 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
31763 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
31764 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
31766 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
31770 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31771 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31772 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
31773 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
31774 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
31776 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
31777 correctly in the Windows installer.
31778 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31779 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31780 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
31781 MIPSpro C compiler.
31782 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
31783 when we're running as a client.
31786 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
31788 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
31789 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
31790 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
31791 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
31792 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
31793 its circuits on demand.
31794 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
31795 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
31796 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
31797 connections more stable on average.
31798 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
31799 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
31800 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
31802 o Security bugfixes:
31803 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
31804 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
31807 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
31809 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
31810 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
31811 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
31812 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
31813 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31814 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31815 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31816 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31819 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
31821 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
31822 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
31823 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
31824 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
31825 routers for even longer.
31826 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
31827 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
31828 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
31829 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
31830 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
31831 caching HTTP proxies.
31832 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
31835 o Minor features, controller:
31836 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
31837 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
31838 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
31839 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
31841 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
31842 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
31843 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
31844 working much like those for circuit events.
31845 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
31846 about the current status of a router.
31847 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
31848 a router's status has changed.
31849 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
31850 can tell which events and features are supported.
31851 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
31852 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
31854 o Security bugfixes:
31855 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
31856 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
31859 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
31860 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
31861 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
31862 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
31863 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
31864 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
31865 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
31866 long nicknames where appropriate.
31867 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
31868 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
31869 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
31870 chews through many circuits before giving up.
31871 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
31872 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
31873 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
31874 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
31875 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
31876 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
31878 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
31879 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
31880 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
31882 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
31883 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
31884 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
31885 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
31886 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
31887 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
31888 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
31889 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
31890 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
31891 (reported by fookoowa).
31892 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
31893 and reported by some Centos users.
31894 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
31895 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
31896 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
31897 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
31898 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
31899 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
31900 before we check for libevent.
31903 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
31905 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
31906 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
31907 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
31908 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
31909 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
31910 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
31911 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
31912 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
31913 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
31914 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
31915 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
31916 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
31917 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
31918 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
31919 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
31920 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
31921 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
31922 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
31923 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
31924 lets you turn it off.
31925 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
31926 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
31927 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
31928 us into the directory more quickly.
31930 o New/improved config options:
31931 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
31932 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
31933 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
31934 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
31935 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
31936 all the machines on the same subnet.
31937 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
31938 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
31939 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
31940 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
31941 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
31942 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
31943 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
31944 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
31945 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
31946 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
31948 o Minor features, controller:
31949 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
31950 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
31951 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
31952 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
31953 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
31954 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
31955 for more information.
31956 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
31957 best guess to the user.
31958 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
31959 descriptor has changed.
31960 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
31962 o Minor features, other:
31963 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
31964 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
31965 useful to the network.
31966 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
31967 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
31968 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
31969 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
31970 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
31971 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
31972 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
31973 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
31974 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
31975 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
31976 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
31977 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
31978 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
31979 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
31980 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
31982 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
31983 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
31984 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
31985 could return an unnamed server instead.
31986 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
31987 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
31988 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
31989 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
31990 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
31991 a more attractive target for compromise.)
31992 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
31993 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
31994 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
31996 o Major bugfixes, other:
31997 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
31998 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
31999 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
32000 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
32001 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32002 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32003 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
32004 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
32005 its circuits on demand.
32006 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
32007 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
32008 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
32009 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
32011 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
32012 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32013 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32014 we don't recognize.
32015 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
32017 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
32018 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
32019 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
32020 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
32021 "extendcircuit" request.
32022 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32023 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32024 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
32026 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
32027 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
32028 instead of "X resolved to X".
32029 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
32030 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
32031 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
32032 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
32033 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
32034 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
32035 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
32036 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
32037 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
32039 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
32040 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
32041 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
32042 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
32043 result more than once.
32044 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
32045 non-versioning dirservers.
32046 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
32047 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
32049 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
32050 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
32051 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
32052 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
32053 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
32054 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
32055 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
32056 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
32057 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
32059 o Packaging, features:
32060 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
32061 now universal binaries.
32062 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
32063 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
32064 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
32066 o Packaging, bugfixes:
32067 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
32068 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
32069 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
32070 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
32072 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
32073 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
32074 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
32077 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
32078 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
32079 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
32083 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
32085 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32086 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32087 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
32088 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
32089 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
32090 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
32091 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
32092 it can't resolve its hostname.
32095 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32096 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
32097 "extendcircuit" request.
32098 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32099 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32100 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32101 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32103 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
32104 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
32105 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
32107 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
32108 methods: these are known to be buggy.
32109 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32110 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32111 we don't recognize.
32114 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
32116 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
32117 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
32118 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
32119 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
32120 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
32121 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
32122 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
32123 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
32124 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
32125 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
32126 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
32127 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
32128 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
32129 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
32130 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
32131 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
32132 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
32133 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
32134 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
32135 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
32136 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
32137 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
32138 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
32139 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
32142 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
32143 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
32144 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
32145 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
32146 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
32147 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
32148 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
32149 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
32150 recommendation system saner.)
32151 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
32153 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
32154 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
32155 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
32156 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
32157 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
32158 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
32159 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
32160 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
32161 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
32162 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
32163 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
32164 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
32165 your ORPort is set.
32166 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
32167 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
32168 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
32169 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
32170 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
32171 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
32172 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
32173 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
32174 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
32175 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
32176 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
32177 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
32179 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
32180 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
32181 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
32182 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
32183 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
32184 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
32187 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
32188 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
32189 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
32190 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
32191 our DirPort now, etc.
32192 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32193 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
32194 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
32195 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
32196 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
32197 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32198 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32200 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
32201 whether the config options are bad or good.
32202 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
32203 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
32204 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
32205 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
32206 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
32207 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
32208 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
32209 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
32212 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
32213 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
32214 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
32215 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
32216 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
32217 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
32218 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
32219 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
32220 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
32221 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
32222 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
32223 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
32224 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
32225 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
32226 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
32227 of it), is not therefore "up".
32228 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
32229 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
32230 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
32231 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
32232 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
32233 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
32236 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
32238 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
32239 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
32240 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
32241 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
32242 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
32243 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
32244 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
32245 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
32246 test reachability, so you won't publish.
32249 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
32250 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
32251 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
32252 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
32253 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
32255 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
32256 own server descriptor yet.
32259 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
32261 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
32262 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
32263 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
32264 make sure to test via one of these.
32265 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
32266 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
32267 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
32268 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
32269 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
32271 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
32272 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
32273 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
32276 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
32277 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
32278 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
32279 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
32280 directory authority.
32281 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
32282 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
32283 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
32284 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
32287 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
32288 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
32289 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
32291 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
32292 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
32293 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
32294 current guards when picking a new guard.
32295 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
32296 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
32297 when we had more than one pending.
32298 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
32299 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
32300 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
32301 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
32302 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
32303 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
32304 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
32305 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
32306 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
32307 debug the reachability problems better.
32309 o Log / documentation fixes:
32310 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
32311 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
32312 about protocol violations by others.
32313 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
32314 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
32315 about what happened to our old torrc.
32318 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
32320 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
32322 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
32323 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
32324 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
32325 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
32328 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
32330 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
32331 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
32332 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
32333 old ORPort and receive connections.
32334 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
32336 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
32337 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
32338 and network-statuses.
32339 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
32340 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
32341 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
32342 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
32344 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
32347 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
32348 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
32349 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
32352 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
32354 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
32355 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
32356 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
32357 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
32358 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
32361 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
32362 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
32364 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
32365 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
32366 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
32367 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
32368 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
32369 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
32370 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
32371 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
32372 rather than not sending anything back at all.
32373 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
32374 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
32375 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
32376 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
32377 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
32378 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
32379 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
32380 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
32381 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
32382 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
32383 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
32384 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
32385 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
32386 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
32387 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
32388 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
32389 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
32390 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
32391 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
32392 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
32393 default ulimit -n is 1024.
32396 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
32397 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
32398 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
32399 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
32402 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
32404 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
32405 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
32406 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
32407 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
32408 entry guards running these flawed versions.
32409 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
32410 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
32411 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
32412 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
32413 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
32416 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
32417 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
32419 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
32420 and it is confusing some users.
32421 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
32422 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
32423 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
32424 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
32425 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
32428 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
32430 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
32431 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
32432 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
32433 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
32434 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
32435 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
32436 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
32437 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
32438 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
32439 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
32440 dirport is set for now.
32442 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
32443 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
32444 unattached before we fail it?
32445 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
32446 at least this many seconds ago.
32447 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
32448 at least this many seconds ago.
32451 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
32452 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
32453 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
32454 or resolve-wait stream.
32455 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
32456 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
32457 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
32458 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
32459 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
32460 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
32461 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
32462 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
32464 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
32465 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
32466 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
32467 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
32468 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
32469 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
32470 given as hex digests.
32471 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
32472 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
32473 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
32474 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
32475 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
32476 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
32477 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
32478 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
32481 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32482 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
32483 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
32484 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
32485 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
32486 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
32487 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
32488 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
32489 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
32490 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
32491 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
32494 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
32495 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
32496 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
32497 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
32498 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
32499 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
32500 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
32503 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
32504 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
32505 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
32506 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
32507 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
32508 misreading their logs.
32509 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
32510 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
32511 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
32512 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
32513 valid router descriptors.
32514 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
32515 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
32516 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
32517 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
32518 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
32519 silently resetting it to its default.
32520 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
32522 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
32525 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
32526 use clean circuits.
32527 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
32528 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
32529 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
32530 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
32531 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
32533 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
32534 because older Tors do not understand it.
32535 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
32539 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
32540 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32541 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
32542 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
32543 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
32544 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
32545 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
32546 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
32547 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
32548 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
32549 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
32551 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
32552 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
32553 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
32554 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
32556 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
32557 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
32560 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
32561 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
32562 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32563 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32564 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32565 without getting overloaded.
32566 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
32568 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
32569 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
32570 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
32571 be forward-compatible.
32572 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
32573 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
32574 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
32575 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
32577 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
32578 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
32579 and OR conns to port 443.
32580 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
32581 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
32583 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
32584 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
32585 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
32586 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
32587 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
32588 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
32589 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
32592 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
32593 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32594 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
32595 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
32597 o Other important bugfixes:
32598 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32599 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32600 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32601 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32603 o Backported features:
32604 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32605 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32606 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32607 without getting overloaded.
32608 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
32609 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
32610 503's whenever they feel busy.
32611 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
32612 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
32613 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
32614 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
32615 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
32618 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
32619 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32620 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
32621 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
32622 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
32623 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
32624 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
32625 know if the crashes continue.
32626 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
32627 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
32628 seg faults in at least some cases.)
32629 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
32630 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
32631 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
32634 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
32635 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
32636 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
32637 try to be a bit more fair.
32638 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
32639 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
32640 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
32641 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
32642 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
32643 bug that let it go negative.
32644 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
32645 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
32646 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
32647 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
32648 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32649 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32650 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32651 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32652 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
32653 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
32654 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
32657 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
32659 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
32660 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
32661 service descriptors.
32664 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
32665 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
32666 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
32667 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
32669 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
32670 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
32671 versions *are* still recommended.
32672 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
32673 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
32674 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
32675 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
32676 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
32677 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
32678 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
32679 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
32681 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
32682 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
32683 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
32684 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
32685 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
32686 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
32687 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
32688 on it. Not used by clients yet.
32689 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
32690 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
32691 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
32692 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
32693 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
32694 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
32695 established a circuit.
32696 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
32697 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
32698 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
32699 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
32702 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
32703 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32704 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
32705 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
32706 quickly enough. Oops.
32707 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
32709 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32710 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
32713 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
32714 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32715 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
32716 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
32717 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
32718 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
32719 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
32720 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
32721 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
32722 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
32723 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
32724 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
32725 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
32726 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
32727 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
32728 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
32729 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
32732 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
32733 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
32734 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
32735 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
32736 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
32737 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
32738 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
32739 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
32740 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
32741 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
32742 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
32743 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
32744 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
32745 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
32746 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
32747 connections more reliable.
32750 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
32751 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
32752 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
32753 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
32754 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
32755 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
32756 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
32757 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
32758 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
32759 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
32760 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
32761 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
32762 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
32763 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
32767 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
32768 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
32769 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
32770 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
32771 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
32772 need to be uint64_t's.
32773 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
32774 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
32775 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
32777 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
32779 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
32780 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
32781 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
32782 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
32783 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
32784 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
32785 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
32787 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
32788 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
32789 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
32790 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
32791 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
32792 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
32793 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
32794 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
32795 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
32796 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
32797 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
32798 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
32799 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
32802 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
32803 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
32804 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
32805 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
32806 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
32807 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
32808 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
32810 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
32811 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
32812 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
32813 can answer v2 directory requests too.
32814 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
32815 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
32816 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
32817 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
32819 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
32820 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
32821 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
32822 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
32823 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
32824 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
32825 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
32826 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
32827 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
32828 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
32829 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
32830 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
32831 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
32832 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
32833 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
32835 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
32836 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
32839 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
32840 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32841 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
32842 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
32843 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
32844 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
32845 too -- so detect and avoid this.
32846 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
32848 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
32849 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
32850 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
32851 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
32852 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
32853 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
32854 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
32855 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
32856 rendezvous circuits.
32857 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
32859 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32860 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
32861 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
32862 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
32863 advertising it because of hibernation.
32864 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
32865 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
32866 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
32867 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
32868 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
32869 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
32870 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
32871 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
32872 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
32873 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
32874 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
32875 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
32876 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
32877 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
32880 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
32881 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32882 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
32883 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
32884 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
32885 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
32886 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
32887 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
32888 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
32889 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
32890 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
32891 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
32892 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
32893 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
32894 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
32895 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
32896 connections once a week.
32897 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
32898 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
32899 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
32900 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
32901 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
32902 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
32904 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
32905 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
32906 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
32908 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32909 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
32910 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
32911 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
32912 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
32913 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
32914 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
32915 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
32916 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
32917 firewall options forbid.
32918 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
32919 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
32920 can only proxy to certain destinations.
32921 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
32922 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
32923 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
32924 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
32925 aids some statistical attacks.
32926 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
32927 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
32928 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
32929 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
32931 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32932 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
32933 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
32934 server descriptor sometimes.
32935 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
32936 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
32937 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
32938 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
32939 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
32940 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
32941 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
32942 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
32944 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
32945 case the controller wants to change that too.
32946 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
32947 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
32948 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
32949 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
32951 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
32952 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
32953 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
32955 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
32956 descriptors that they know they will reject.
32958 o Features and updates:
32959 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
32960 significantly faster.
32961 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
32962 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
32963 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
32964 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
32965 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
32966 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
32967 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
32968 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
32969 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
32970 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
32971 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
32972 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
32973 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
32974 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
32975 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
32976 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
32977 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
32978 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
32979 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
32980 as authoritative dirserver.
32981 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
32982 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
32983 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
32986 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
32987 o Usability improvements:
32988 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
32989 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
32991 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
32992 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
32993 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
32995 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
32996 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
32997 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
32998 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
32999 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
33000 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
33001 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
33002 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
33003 memory leaks better.
33004 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
33005 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
33006 their operators to pay close attention.
33007 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
33008 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
33010 o Performance improvements:
33011 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
33012 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
33013 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
33014 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
33015 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
33016 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
33017 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
33018 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
33019 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
33020 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
33021 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
33022 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
33023 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
33024 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
33025 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
33026 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
33027 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
33029 o Security improvements:
33030 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
33031 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
33032 fingerprint of server.
33033 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
33034 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
33035 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
33037 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33038 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
33039 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
33040 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
33041 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
33042 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
33043 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
33044 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
33045 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
33046 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
33047 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
33048 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
33049 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
33050 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
33051 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
33052 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
33053 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
33054 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
33055 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
33056 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
33057 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
33059 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
33060 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
33061 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
33063 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
33064 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
33066 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
33067 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
33068 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
33069 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
33070 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
33071 of the controller protocol.
33072 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
33073 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
33074 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
33077 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
33078 o New features (major):
33079 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
33080 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
33081 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
33082 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
33083 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
33084 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
33085 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
33086 we're using a default DirPort.
33087 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
33089 o New features (minor):
33090 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
33091 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
33092 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
33093 mirrors still cache and serve it).
33094 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
33095 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
33096 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
33097 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
33098 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
33099 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
33100 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
33101 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
33102 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
33103 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
33104 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
33105 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
33106 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
33107 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
33108 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
33110 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
33111 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
33112 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
33113 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
33114 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
33115 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
33116 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
33117 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
33119 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
33120 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
33121 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
33122 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
33123 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
33124 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
33125 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
33126 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
33127 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
33128 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
33130 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
33131 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33132 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33133 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33134 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33136 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33137 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
33138 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
33140 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
33141 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
33143 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
33144 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
33145 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
33146 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
33147 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
33148 don't warn twice about the same name.
33149 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
33150 if we've not heard of the server.
33151 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
33152 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
33155 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
33156 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33157 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
33158 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33159 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33160 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33161 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33162 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
33163 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
33164 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33165 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33166 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
33167 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
33168 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
33169 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
33172 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
33173 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
33174 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
33175 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
33176 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
33178 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
33179 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
33180 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
33181 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
33182 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
33183 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
33187 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
33188 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
33189 nickname) is reachable by you.
33190 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
33193 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33194 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
33195 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
33196 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
33197 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
33198 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
33199 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
33200 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
33201 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
33202 we fail to connect).
33203 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
33204 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
33205 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
33206 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
33208 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
33209 it was self-testing that told us so.
33212 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
33213 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
33214 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33215 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33216 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
33217 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
33218 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
33219 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
33220 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
33221 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
33222 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
33223 exit policy using him for any exits.
33224 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
33227 o New controller features/fixes:
33228 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
33229 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
33230 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
33231 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
33232 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
33233 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
33234 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
33235 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
33236 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
33238 o Start on the new directory design:
33239 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
33240 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
33242 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
33243 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
33244 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
33245 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
33247 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
33248 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
33249 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
33250 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
33251 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
33252 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
33253 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
33254 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
33257 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
33258 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
33259 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
33260 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
33261 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
33262 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
33263 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
33264 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
33265 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
33266 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
33268 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
33269 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
33270 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
33271 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
33272 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
33273 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
33274 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
33275 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
33276 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
33278 o Config option changes:
33279 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
33280 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
33281 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
33282 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33283 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33284 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
33286 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33287 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
33288 people have started using them for spam too.
33289 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
33290 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
33291 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
33292 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
33293 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
33294 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
33295 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
33296 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
33297 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
33298 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
33299 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
33300 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
33301 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
33302 services faster on the service end.
33303 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
33304 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
33305 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
33306 it a fair shake next time we try.
33307 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
33308 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
33309 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
33310 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
33311 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
33312 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
33313 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
33314 able to discover them.
33315 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
33316 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
33317 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
33318 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
33319 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
33320 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
33321 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
33322 testing for reachability.
33323 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
33324 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
33326 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
33328 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
33329 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
33332 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
33333 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
33335 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33336 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
33337 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
33338 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
33341 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
33342 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33343 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
33345 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
33346 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
33349 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
33350 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
33353 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
33354 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
33355 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
33356 options, getinfo keys.
33359 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
33360 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33361 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
33362 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33363 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33364 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
33365 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
33367 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
33368 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
33372 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
33373 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33374 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
33376 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
33378 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
33379 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
33380 circuit events and we go offline.
33381 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
33382 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
33383 you don't have enough intro points already.
33385 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33386 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
33387 many bytes we've used in this time period.
33388 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
33389 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
33390 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
33391 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
33392 enabled by default yet.
33394 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
33395 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
33396 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
33397 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33398 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33401 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
33402 o New directory servers:
33403 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33405 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33406 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33407 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33408 pthreads libraries.
33409 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
33410 claims its dirport is 0.
33411 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
33412 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
33416 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
33417 o New directory servers:
33418 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33420 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
33421 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
33423 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
33424 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
33425 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
33426 ports that have changed.
33427 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33429 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
33430 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
33431 Windows-style errno back.
33432 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
33434 want to make it an NT service.
33435 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
33436 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
33437 name, give the full name in our response.
33438 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
33439 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
33440 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
33441 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33442 pthreads libraries.
33444 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33445 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
33449 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
33450 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
33451 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
33452 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
33453 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
33456 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
33457 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33458 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
33459 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
33460 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33461 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33462 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33463 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
33466 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
33468 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33469 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33470 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33471 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
33472 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
33473 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
33475 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
33476 temporarily unreachable.
33477 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
33481 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
33482 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
33483 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
33484 our protocol works.
33485 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
33489 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
33490 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
33491 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
33492 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
33493 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
33497 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
33498 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
33499 libevent before 1.1a.
33502 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
33504 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
33505 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
33506 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
33507 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
33508 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
33510 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
33511 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
33512 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
33513 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
33514 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
33515 of CPU time plus memory.
33516 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
33517 normal web requests.
33518 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
33519 tor_lookup_hostname().
33520 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
33521 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
33522 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
33523 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
33524 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
33525 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
33527 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
33528 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
33529 HttpProxyAuthenticator
33530 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
33531 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
33532 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
33534 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
33535 the user asks you to.
33536 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
33537 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
33538 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
33539 their descriptors are being rejected.
33540 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
33544 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
33546 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
33547 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
33548 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
33550 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
33552 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
33554 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
33555 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
33556 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
33557 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
33558 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
33559 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
33560 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
33561 keys) from the exit server's process.
33562 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
33563 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
33564 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
33565 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
33566 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
33567 point at your Tor server.
33568 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
33569 you're not sending a socks reply back.
33572 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
33573 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
33574 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
33575 to make it easier to write controllers.
33578 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
33580 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
33581 installing on Tiger.
33582 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
33583 complain during installation.
33584 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
33585 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
33586 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
33587 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
33588 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
33589 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
33591 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
33592 something more reasonable when first installing.
33593 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
33596 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
33598 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
33599 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
33601 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
33602 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
33603 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
33604 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
33605 when using the default exit policy.
33606 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
33607 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
33608 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
33609 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
33610 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
33611 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
33612 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
33613 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
33614 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
33615 we fetched a new directory.
33616 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
33617 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
33620 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
33621 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
33622 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
33623 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
33624 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
33625 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
33626 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
33627 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
33629 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
33630 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
33631 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
33632 save memory on systems that need to fork.
33633 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
33634 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
33635 is valid without actually launching Tor.
33636 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
33637 rather than just rejecting it.
33640 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
33642 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
33643 we didn't like its cert.
33645 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
33646 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
33647 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
33648 on patch from Adam Langley.
33649 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
33650 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
33651 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
33652 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
33654 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
33655 directory every time you regenerate it.
33656 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
33657 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
33660 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
33661 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33662 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33663 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
33664 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
33667 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
33669 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33670 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
33671 TLS errors better in other situations too.
33672 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
33673 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
33674 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
33675 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
33676 and don't log when you are.
33677 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
33678 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
33680 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
33681 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
33682 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
33683 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
33684 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
33687 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
33688 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33689 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
33690 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
33691 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
33692 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
33693 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
33694 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
33695 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
33696 nickname+key are allowed.
33697 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
33698 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
33699 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
33700 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
33701 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
33702 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
33703 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
33704 have quite wrong clocks).
33705 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
33706 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
33707 - Efficiency improvements:
33708 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
33709 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
33710 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
33711 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
33712 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
33713 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
33714 lowercase and be done with it.
33715 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
33716 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
33717 to abandon partially built circuits.
33718 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
33719 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
33721 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
33723 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
33724 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
33725 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
33726 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
33728 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
33729 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
33731 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33732 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
33733 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
33734 obeying the exit policy internally.
33735 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
33736 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
33738 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
33739 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
33740 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
33741 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
33743 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
33744 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
33745 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
33746 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
33747 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
33749 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
33750 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
33751 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
33752 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
33753 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
33754 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
33755 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
33756 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
33757 descriptors we just dropped.
33758 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
33759 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
33760 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
33761 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
33762 artificially capped at 500kB.
33765 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
33766 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33767 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
33768 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
33769 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
33770 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
33771 busy for more than 100 seconds.
33774 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
33775 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
33776 - Fixes on reachability detection:
33777 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
33778 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
33779 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
33780 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
33781 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
33782 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
33783 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
33784 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
33785 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
33786 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
33787 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
33788 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
33789 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
33790 server not already connected to them.
33791 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
33792 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
33793 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
33795 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
33797 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
33798 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
33799 are in a different state than they actually are.
33800 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
33801 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
33802 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
33804 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
33805 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
33806 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
33808 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
33809 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
33810 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
33811 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
33812 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
33813 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
33814 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
33816 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
33817 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
33818 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
33819 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
33822 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
33823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33824 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
33825 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
33826 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
33827 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
33828 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
33829 creating actual system users.
33830 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
33831 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
33835 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
33837 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
33838 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
33839 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
33840 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
33841 hidden services better.
33842 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
33844 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
33845 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
33846 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
33847 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
33848 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
33849 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
33850 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
33851 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
33852 patch by Matt Edman).
33853 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
33854 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
33855 required exit node for certain sites.
33856 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
33857 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
33858 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
33859 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
33860 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
33861 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
33862 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
33863 rather than just "success" or "failure".
33864 - A more sane version numbering system. See
33865 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
33866 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
33867 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
33869 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
33870 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
33871 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
33872 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
33873 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
33874 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
33875 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
33877 o Robustness/stability fixes:
33878 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
33879 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
33880 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
33882 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
33883 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
33884 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
33886 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
33887 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
33888 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
33890 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
33891 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
33892 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
33893 that will want high uptime circuits.
33894 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
33895 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
33896 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
33897 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
33898 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
33899 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
33900 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
33901 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
33902 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
33903 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
33904 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
33905 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
33906 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
33907 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
33908 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
33909 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
33910 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
33911 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
33912 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
33913 when we try to launch one.
33914 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
33915 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
33916 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
33917 "ShutdownWaitLength".
33918 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
33919 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
33920 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
33921 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
33922 and to take errno into account where possible.
33925 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
33926 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
33927 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
33928 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
33929 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
33930 file more reasonable.
33931 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
33932 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
33933 addresses -- it won't.
33934 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
33935 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
33936 for google.com" problem.
33937 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
33938 so it's not just "unknown platform".
33939 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
33940 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
33941 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
33942 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
33944 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
33945 they could use instead.
33946 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
33947 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
33948 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
33949 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
33950 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
33951 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
33952 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
33953 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
33954 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
33956 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
33960 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
33961 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
33963 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
33964 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
33965 private-IP addresses.
33966 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
33967 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
33969 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
33970 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
33971 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
33972 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
33973 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
33974 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
33975 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
33977 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
33978 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
33979 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
33980 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
33981 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
33982 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
33983 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
33984 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
33986 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
33988 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
33989 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
33990 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
33991 whether the server is hibernating.
33994 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
33995 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
33996 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
33997 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
33998 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
33999 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
34000 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
34001 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
34002 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
34003 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
34004 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
34005 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
34006 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
34007 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
34008 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
34010 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
34011 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
34012 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
34013 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
34014 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
34015 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
34016 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
34017 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
34018 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
34019 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
34020 existing torrc files.
34021 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
34024 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
34025 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34026 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
34027 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
34028 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
34029 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
34030 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
34031 the win32 SYSTEM account.
34032 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
34033 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
34034 file descriptors available.
34035 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
34036 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
34037 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
34040 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
34041 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34042 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
34043 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
34045 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
34046 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
34047 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
34048 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
34049 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
34051 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
34052 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
34053 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
34054 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
34055 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
34056 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
34057 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
34058 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
34059 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
34060 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
34061 800kB/s of capacity.
34062 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
34065 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
34066 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34067 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
34068 need as much processor time.
34069 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
34070 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
34071 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
34072 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
34073 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
34074 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
34075 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
34076 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
34077 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
34078 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
34079 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
34080 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
34082 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
34083 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
34084 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
34085 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
34086 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
34087 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
34088 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
34091 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
34092 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
34093 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
34095 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
34096 style address, then we'd crash.
34097 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
34098 a dirserver is broken.
34099 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
34101 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
34102 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
34103 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
34105 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
34106 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
34107 name out of the warning/assert messages.
34108 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
34109 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
34110 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
34112 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
34113 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
34114 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
34116 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
34118 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
34119 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
34120 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
34121 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
34122 values at once couldn't work.
34123 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
34124 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
34125 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
34126 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
34127 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
34128 they can handle any number of routers.
34129 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
34130 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
34131 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
34132 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
34133 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
34134 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
34135 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
34136 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
34137 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
34140 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
34141 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34142 - Make hibernation actually work.
34143 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
34144 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
34145 don't use the stream status code.
34148 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
34150 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
34151 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
34153 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
34156 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
34157 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
34158 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
34159 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
34160 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
34161 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
34162 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
34163 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
34164 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
34165 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
34167 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34168 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
34169 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
34170 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
34171 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
34172 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
34173 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
34174 - Make unit tests work on win32.
34177 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
34178 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34179 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
34181 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
34182 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
34183 than just chopping them off.
34184 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
34186 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34187 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
34188 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
34189 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
34190 right after sending the begin cell.
34191 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
34192 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
34193 exit nodes too. Oops.
34196 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
34197 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
34198 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
34199 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
34200 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
34201 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
34202 the user knows which one it's talking about.
34203 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
34204 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
34205 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
34208 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
34209 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34210 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
34211 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
34213 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
34215 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34216 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
34217 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
34219 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
34220 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
34221 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
34222 Clip rather than rejecting.
34223 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
34224 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
34227 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
34228 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
34229 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
34230 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
34232 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
34235 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
34236 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34237 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
34238 win32 socket errors better.
34240 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34241 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
34244 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
34245 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34246 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
34247 so we don't see those messages days later.
34249 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34250 - Make tor-resolve work again.
34251 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
34252 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
34255 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
34256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34257 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
34258 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
34260 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
34261 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
34262 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
34265 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
34266 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34267 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
34268 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
34269 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
34270 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
34271 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
34272 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
34273 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
34275 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
34276 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
34277 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
34278 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
34280 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
34281 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
34284 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
34285 hibernation properties by
34286 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
34287 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
34288 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
34289 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
34290 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
34291 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
34292 get back to normal.)
34293 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
34295 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
34296 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
34297 to fill the last cell completely.
34298 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
34301 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
34302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34303 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
34304 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
34305 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
34306 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
34307 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
34308 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
34309 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
34310 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
34311 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
34313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
34314 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
34315 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
34316 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
34317 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
34318 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
34319 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
34320 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
34322 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
34323 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
34324 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
34325 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
34326 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
34327 have it on start-up.
34330 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
34331 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
34332 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
34333 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
34334 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
34335 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
34336 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
34337 configuration to torrc.
34338 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
34339 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
34340 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
34341 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
34342 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
34344 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
34345 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
34346 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
34347 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
34348 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
34349 log more informatively.
34350 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
34351 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
34352 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
34353 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
34354 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
34355 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
34356 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
34357 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
34358 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
34359 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
34360 from each other, to hinder linkability.
34363 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
34364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
34365 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
34366 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
34367 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
34368 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
34369 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
34371 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
34372 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
34373 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
34374 they ran out of file descriptors.
34375 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
34376 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
34377 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
34378 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
34379 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
34380 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
34381 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
34383 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
34386 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
34387 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
34388 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
34389 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
34390 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
34391 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
34392 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
34393 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
34394 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
34395 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
34396 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
34397 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
34398 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
34399 with the control port.
34400 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
34401 use in authenticating to the control interface.
34402 - New log format in config:
34403 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
34404 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
34407 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
34408 from their dirserver.
34409 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
34411 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
34412 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
34413 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
34414 them act more like real nodes.
34415 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
34416 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
34418 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
34419 nickname to its identity key.
34420 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
34421 not on the command line.
34422 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
34423 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
34424 1024) file descriptors.
34426 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
34427 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
34429 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
34430 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
34431 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
34434 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
34435 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
34436 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
34437 exit policy, not reject *:*.
34438 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
34439 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
34440 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
34441 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
34442 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
34443 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
34444 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
34447 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
34448 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
34449 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
34450 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
34451 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
34452 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
34453 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
34456 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
34457 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34458 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
34459 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
34460 the ones we find in directories.)
34461 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
34463 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
34464 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
34466 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
34467 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
34468 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
34470 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
34471 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
34472 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
34473 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
34475 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
34476 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
34477 any more exit policy lines.
34480 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
34481 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
34482 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
34483 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
34484 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
34485 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
34486 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
34487 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
34488 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
34489 will be able to get a directory.
34490 - Http proxy support
34491 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
34492 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
34493 be routed through this host.
34494 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
34495 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
34496 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
34497 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
34500 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
34502 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
34503 clients/servers with an open dirport.
34504 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34505 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34506 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34507 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34508 intermittent connections.
34509 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
34510 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
34512 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
34513 in reporting stats locally.
34514 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
34515 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
34516 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
34519 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
34521 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
34522 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
34525 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
34527 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
34528 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
34529 if you don't want it open.
34530 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34531 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
34532 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34533 intermittent connections.
34534 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
34536 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
34537 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
34538 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
34539 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
34540 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
34541 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
34542 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
34543 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
34544 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
34545 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
34546 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
34547 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
34548 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
34549 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
34550 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34551 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34554 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
34555 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
34556 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
34557 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
34558 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
34560 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
34562 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
34563 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
34564 specified in HTTP 1.0.
34565 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
34566 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
34567 than once per minute.
34568 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
34569 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
34572 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
34573 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
34576 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
34577 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
34578 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
34579 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
34582 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
34583 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
34585 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
34586 don't put it into the client dns cache.
34587 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
34588 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
34589 until we get our next directory.
34591 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
34592 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
34593 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
34594 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
34595 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
34596 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
34597 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
34598 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
34599 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
34600 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
34601 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
34603 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
34605 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
34606 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
34608 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
34609 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
34610 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
34612 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
34614 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
34615 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
34616 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
34617 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
34618 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
34619 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
34620 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
34621 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
34624 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
34625 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
34626 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
34627 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
34630 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
34631 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
34632 ask them to resolve the host "".
34635 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
34636 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34637 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
34638 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
34639 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
34640 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
34641 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
34642 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
34643 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
34644 clients don't use this yet.)
34645 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
34646 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
34647 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
34648 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
34649 for pointing out this bug.)
34650 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
34651 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
34652 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
34653 kazaa, gnutella ports.
34654 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
34656 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
34657 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
34658 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
34659 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
34660 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
34661 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
34662 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
34663 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
34664 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
34665 wolf unpredictably.
34666 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
34667 that's still handshaking.
34668 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
34669 you'll choose it for your path.
34670 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
34671 end relay cell, etc.
34672 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
34673 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
34674 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
34677 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
34678 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34680 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
34681 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
34682 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
34683 list to decide who's running or verified.
34684 - Bugfixes and features:
34685 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
34686 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
34687 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
34688 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
34689 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
34690 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
34692 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
34693 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
34694 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
34695 know you might want to get it verified.
34696 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
34699 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
34701 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
34702 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
34703 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
34704 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
34706 o Protocol changes:
34707 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
34708 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
34709 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
34710 hadn't heard of before.
34713 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
34714 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
34715 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
34716 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
34717 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
34718 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
34719 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
34720 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
34721 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
34722 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
34723 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
34724 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
34725 - Directory caching.
34726 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
34727 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
34728 directory they've pulled down.
34729 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
34730 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
34731 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
34732 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
34733 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
34734 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
34735 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
34737 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
34738 This isn't used yet.
34739 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
34740 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
34741 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
34742 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
34743 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
34744 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
34745 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
34746 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
34747 - File and name management:
34748 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
34749 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
34751 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
34752 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
34753 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
34754 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
34755 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
34756 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
34757 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
34759 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
34760 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
34761 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
34762 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
34763 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
34765 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
34766 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
34767 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
34768 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
34769 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
34770 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
34771 - New docs in the tarball:
34773 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
34776 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
34777 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
34778 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
34781 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
34782 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
34783 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
34786 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
34787 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
34790 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
34791 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
34792 - Make it build on Win32 again.
34793 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
34794 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
34798 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
34800 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
34801 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
34802 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
34803 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
34804 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
34805 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
34806 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
34807 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
34808 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
34809 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
34812 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
34815 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
34816 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
34817 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
34818 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
34820 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
34821 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
34822 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
34824 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
34825 hidden service per 15-minute period.
34826 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
34827 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
34828 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
34829 o Fixes for security bugs:
34830 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
34831 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
34832 a trusted dirserver.
34834 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
34835 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
34836 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
34837 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
34838 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
34839 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
34840 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
34841 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
34842 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
34843 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
34845 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
34846 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
34847 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
34848 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
34850 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
34851 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
34852 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
34853 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
34854 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
34855 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
34856 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
34857 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
34858 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
34859 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
34860 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
34861 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
34862 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
34865 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
34866 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
34867 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
34868 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
34871 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
34872 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
34873 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
34874 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
34875 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
34876 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
34877 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
34881 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
34882 [version bump only]
34885 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
34886 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
34887 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
34888 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
34889 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
34891 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
34894 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
34895 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
34896 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
34897 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
34898 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
34899 o Better debugging for tls errors
34900 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
34901 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
34902 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
34903 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
34904 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
34905 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
34906 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
34907 o win32's close can't close a socket.
34910 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
34911 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
34912 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
34913 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
34914 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
34915 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
34916 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
34917 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
34918 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
34919 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
34920 just close the circ.
34921 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
34922 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
34923 (this was quite rare).
34926 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
34927 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
34928 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
34929 if you decrypted them correctly.
34930 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
34931 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
34932 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
34935 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
34936 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
34937 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
34938 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
34939 a second one and it works.
34940 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
34941 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
34942 alice would just have to wait to time out.
34943 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
34944 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
34945 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
34946 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
34947 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
34948 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
34949 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
34950 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
34951 i'd still like to find the bug though.
34952 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
34954 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
34958 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
34959 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
34960 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
34961 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
34962 he retries a couple of times
34963 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
34964 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
34965 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
34966 too long (they were sticking around forever).
34967 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
34971 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
34972 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
34973 - make hup work again
34974 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
34975 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
34976 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
34977 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
34978 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
34979 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
34981 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
34982 o changes from 0.0.5:
34983 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
34984 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
34985 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
34986 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
34987 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
34989 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
34990 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
34991 in-memory directories too
34994 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
34995 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
34998 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
35000 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
35001 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
35002 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
35003 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
35006 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
35007 [version bump only]
35010 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
35011 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
35013 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
35014 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
35015 but that aren't warnings
35018 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
35019 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
35020 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
35021 the dns farm to do it.
35022 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
35023 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
35025 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
35026 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
35027 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
35030 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
35031 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
35032 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
35033 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
35034 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
35035 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
35036 expect it to have a nickname.
35037 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
35038 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
35041 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
35042 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
35046 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
35047 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
35048 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
35049 - include missing header fcntl.h
35050 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
35051 - deal with hardware word alignment
35052 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
35053 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
35054 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
35055 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
35056 by kill -USR1 currently.
35057 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
35058 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
35059 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
35062 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
35063 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
35064 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
35067 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
35069 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
35070 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
35071 - And fix a few endian issues.
35074 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
35076 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
35077 try that circuit again: try a new one.
35078 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
35079 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
35080 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
35081 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
35082 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
35083 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
35085 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
35086 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
35087 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
35089 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
35091 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
35092 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
35093 side isn't reading right then.
35094 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
35095 RecommendedVersions
35096 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
35097 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
35098 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
35101 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
35103 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
35104 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
35107 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
35111 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
35113 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
35114 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
35115 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
35116 connection is finished.
35117 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
35118 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
35119 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
35120 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
35121 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
35122 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
35123 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
35124 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
35125 rather than warn and continue.
35126 - Make --version work
35127 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
35130 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
35132 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
35133 knows it's working.
35134 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
35135 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
35137 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
35138 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
35139 so you can collect coredumps there.
35141 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
35142 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
35143 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
35144 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
35145 dns cache actually gets populated.
35146 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
35147 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
35148 end cell down it first.
35149 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
35150 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
35153 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
35155 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
35156 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
35158 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
35159 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
35160 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
35161 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
35162 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
35163 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
35165 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
35167 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
35168 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
35169 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
35170 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
35171 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
35172 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
35174 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
35175 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
35178 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
35180 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
35181 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
35182 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
35183 tor. It even has a man page.
35184 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
35185 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
35186 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
35187 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
35189 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
35191 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
35194 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
35196 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
35197 it, apt-getters. :)
35198 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
35199 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
35200 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
35201 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
35202 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
35203 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
35204 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
35205 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
35206 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
35207 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
35208 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
35210 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
35211 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
35214 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
35216 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
35217 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
35220 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
35222 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
35223 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
35224 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
35225 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
35226 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
35227 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
35228 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
35229 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
35230 logfile so you know it's working.
35231 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
35232 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
35235 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
35237 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
35238 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
35239 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
35242 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
35244 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
35245 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
35246 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
35249 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
35250 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
35251 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
35253 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
35254 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
35256 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
35257 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
35258 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
35260 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
35261 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
35265 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
35267 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
35268 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
35269 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
35272 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
35273 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
35274 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
35275 - Add port ranges to exit policies
35276 - Add a conservative default exit policy
35277 - Warn if you're running tor as root
35278 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
35279 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
35280 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
35281 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
35283 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
35286 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
35287 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35288 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
35289 really screw things up.
35290 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
35292 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
35293 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
35295 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
35296 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
35297 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
35298 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
35299 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
35300 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
35303 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
35306 - Change default loglevel to warn.
35307 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
35308 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
35310 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
35313 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
35314 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35315 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
35316 - to get ownership/permissions right
35317 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
35318 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
35319 pull down a directory again
35320 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
35321 causing server crashes
35322 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
35323 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
35324 - exit if bind() fails
35325 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
35326 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
35327 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
35328 - fix minor bias in PRNG
35329 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
35332 - Wrote the design document (woo)
35334 o Circuit building and exit policies:
35335 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
35337 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
35338 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
35339 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
35340 exists, rather than failing
35341 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
35342 which AP connections are standing by
35343 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
35344 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
35345 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
35347 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
35348 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
35351 - APPort is now called SocksPort
35352 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
35354 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
35355 hardcoded (for dirservers)
35356 - Reloads config on HUP
35357 - Usage info on -h or --help
35358 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
35361 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
35362 o General stability:
35363 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
35364 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
35365 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
35366 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
35367 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
35368 to take down the network when I approve a new router
35369 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
35372 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
35373 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
35375 o Autoconf improvements:
35376 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
35377 - Make install now works
35378 - create var/lib/tor on make install
35379 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
35380 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
35382 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
35383 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
35384 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
35385 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup