1 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-??
2 o Major features [IPv6 support]:
3 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
5 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
8 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
9 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
12 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
13 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
18 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
19 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
20 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
22 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
23 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
24 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
28 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
29 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
30 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
34 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
35 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
38 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
39 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
40 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
41 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
44 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
45 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
46 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
47 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
48 be sent using an "early" cell.
51 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
52 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
53 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
54 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
55 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
56 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
57 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
60 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
61 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
62 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
63 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
64 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
65 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
66 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
67 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
68 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
69 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
70 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
71 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
72 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
73 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
74 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
75 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
78 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
79 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
80 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
81 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
82 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
83 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
84 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
85 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
86 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
88 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
89 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
90 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
91 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
92 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks. Spotted
95 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
96 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
97 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
98 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
101 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
102 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
106 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
108 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
109 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
110 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
111 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
112 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
113 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
114 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
115 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
116 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
117 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
118 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
119 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
120 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
121 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
122 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
123 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
124 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
125 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
126 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
127 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
128 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
129 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
130 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
133 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
134 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
136 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
137 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
138 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
139 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
140 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
141 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
142 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
144 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
145 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be
146 trying session resumption at this point, but apparently some
147 did, in ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on
148 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug found by Geoff Goodell.
151 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
152 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
153 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
154 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
155 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
156 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
159 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
160 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
161 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
164 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
165 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
166 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
167 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
168 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
169 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
170 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
171 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
172 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
173 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
174 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
175 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
176 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
177 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
180 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
181 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
182 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
184 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
185 fingerprints with or without space.
186 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
187 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
188 partway through and wants to catch up.
189 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
190 state to start out in.
193 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
194 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
195 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
196 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
197 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
200 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
201 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
202 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
203 some of the connection attempts fail.
204 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
205 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
206 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
207 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
208 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
209 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
211 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
212 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
213 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
216 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
217 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
218 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
219 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
220 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
221 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
222 and adds a variety of smaller features.
225 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
226 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
227 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
228 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
230 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
231 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
232 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
233 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
235 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
236 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
237 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
238 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
239 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
240 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
241 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
244 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
245 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
246 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
247 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
248 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
250 o Memory fixes and improvements:
251 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
252 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
253 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
254 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
255 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
256 on a typical directory cache.
257 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
258 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
259 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
260 and may reduce fragmentation.
261 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
262 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
263 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
265 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
266 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
267 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
269 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
270 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
274 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
275 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
276 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
277 done that for a long time.
278 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
279 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
280 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
281 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
284 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
285 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
286 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
287 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
288 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
289 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
291 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
292 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
293 output to messages of warning and error severity.
294 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
295 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
296 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
297 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
298 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
299 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
300 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
301 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
302 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
303 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
304 directory requests we should expect to see.
305 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
307 - Lots of new unit tests.
308 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
309 two parallel lists in lockstep.
312 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
313 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
314 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
317 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
318 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
319 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
320 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
321 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
322 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
323 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
326 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
327 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
328 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
332 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
333 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
334 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
337 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
338 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
339 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
341 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
342 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
344 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
345 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
346 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
347 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
348 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
349 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
350 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
352 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
353 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
354 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
355 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
356 - Fix compile on Windows.
359 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
360 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
361 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
362 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
363 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
364 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
365 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
368 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
369 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
372 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
373 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
374 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
375 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
377 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
378 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
379 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
382 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
383 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
384 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
385 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
389 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
390 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
391 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
392 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
394 o Major security fixes:
395 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
396 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
397 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
398 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
399 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
402 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
403 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
406 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
407 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
410 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
411 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
414 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
415 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
416 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
419 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
420 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
423 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
424 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
425 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
426 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
427 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
429 o New directory authorities:
430 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
431 it has been down for months.
432 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
436 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
437 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
439 o Minor features (security):
440 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
441 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
442 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
445 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
446 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
447 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
448 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
449 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
450 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
451 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
452 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
453 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
455 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
456 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
457 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
458 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
459 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
460 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
461 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
462 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
463 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
465 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
466 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
467 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
468 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
469 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
470 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
471 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
472 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
473 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
474 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
475 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
476 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
477 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
478 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
479 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
480 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
481 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
482 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
483 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
486 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
487 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
488 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
489 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
492 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
493 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
494 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
495 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
498 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
499 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
500 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
501 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
502 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
505 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
506 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
507 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
508 certain censored countries by default again.
511 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
512 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
513 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
514 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
515 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
516 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
517 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
518 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
520 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
521 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
522 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
523 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
524 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
525 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
526 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
527 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
528 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
529 a directory. Fix from lodger.
531 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
532 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
533 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
534 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
535 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
536 RelayBandwidth* values.
537 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
538 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
540 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
541 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
542 get_interface_address6().
543 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
544 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
545 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
547 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
548 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
549 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
550 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
551 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
552 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
553 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
554 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
555 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
556 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
559 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
560 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
561 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
564 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
565 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
566 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
567 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
568 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
571 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
572 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
573 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
574 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
575 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
576 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
577 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
578 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
579 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
582 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
583 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
584 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
585 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
588 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
589 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
590 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
591 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
592 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
593 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
594 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
597 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
598 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
599 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
600 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
601 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
602 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
603 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
605 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
606 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
607 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
608 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
609 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
612 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
613 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
615 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
616 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
617 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
618 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
619 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
620 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
621 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
622 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
623 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
624 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
625 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
626 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
627 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
628 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
629 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
630 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
631 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
632 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
633 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
634 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
635 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
636 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
637 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
639 o Minor features (performance):
640 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
642 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
643 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
644 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
645 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
646 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
647 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
648 non-system include paths.
649 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
650 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
653 o Minor features (other):
654 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
656 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
657 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
658 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
661 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
662 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
663 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
664 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
666 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
667 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
668 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
669 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
671 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
672 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
673 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
674 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
675 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
677 o Minor bugfixes (other):
678 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
679 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
680 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
681 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
682 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
683 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
684 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
685 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
686 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
687 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
688 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
689 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
690 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
691 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
692 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
693 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
694 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
695 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
696 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
697 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
698 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
699 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
700 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
701 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
704 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
705 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
706 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
710 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
711 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
712 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
713 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
714 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
717 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
718 Tor's x509 certificates.
721 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
722 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
723 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
724 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
725 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
726 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
728 o Minor features (security):
729 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
730 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
732 o Minor features (directory authority):
733 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
734 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
735 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
736 bandwidthburst values.
738 o Minor features (controller):
739 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
740 processes from running us out of memory.
742 o Minor features (misc):
743 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
744 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
745 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
746 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
748 o Deprecated features (controller):
749 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
750 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
751 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
754 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
755 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
757 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
758 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
759 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
760 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
761 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
762 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
763 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
764 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
766 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
767 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
768 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
769 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
770 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
771 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
772 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
773 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
775 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
776 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
777 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
778 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
779 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
780 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
781 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
782 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
783 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
784 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
785 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
786 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
788 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
789 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
791 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
792 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
793 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
794 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
795 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
796 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
799 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
800 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
801 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
802 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
803 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
805 o New directory authorities:
806 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
810 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
811 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
812 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
813 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
814 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
815 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
816 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
817 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
821 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
822 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
823 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
824 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
825 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
826 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
827 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
828 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
829 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
830 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
833 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
834 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
835 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
836 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
840 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
841 the request isn't encrypted.
842 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
843 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
844 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
845 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
846 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
849 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
850 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
853 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
856 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
857 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
858 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
860 o New directory authorities:
861 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
864 o Major performance improvements:
865 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
866 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
867 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
868 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
869 memory fragmentation.
872 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
873 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
874 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
875 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
876 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
877 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
878 bodies when they receive them.
879 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
880 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
881 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
883 o Minor performance improvements:
884 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
885 of them were actually distinct.
886 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
887 interested in a given message.
890 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
891 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
892 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
893 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
894 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
895 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
896 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
897 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
898 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
899 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
900 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
902 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
903 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
904 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
905 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
906 this country" and "1 person from this country".
907 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
908 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
909 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
910 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
911 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
913 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
914 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
915 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
917 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
918 but client versions are not.
919 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
920 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
922 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
923 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
924 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
925 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
926 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
928 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
929 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
930 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
933 o Minor features (controller):
934 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
935 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
936 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
937 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
939 o Minor features (directory authorities):
940 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
941 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
942 running a test network on a single host.
943 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
944 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
946 o Minor features (bridges):
947 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
948 unencrypted connections.
950 o Minor features (other):
951 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
952 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
953 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
954 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
957 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
958 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
959 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
960 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
963 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
964 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
965 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
966 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
970 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
971 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
972 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
973 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
974 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
975 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
976 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
977 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
978 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
979 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
980 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
981 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
984 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
985 rebuild our server descriptor.
986 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
987 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
988 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
989 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
990 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
991 nonstandard integer types.
992 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
993 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
994 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
995 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
996 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
998 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
999 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
1000 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
1001 when they receive them.
1002 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
1003 This includes some 64-bit systems.
1004 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
1005 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
1006 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
1007 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
1008 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1009 router_get_by_hexdigest().
1010 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1011 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1015 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
1016 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
1017 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1020 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
1021 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
1022 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
1023 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
1024 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
1025 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
1026 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
1027 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1030 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
1031 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
1032 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
1033 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
1035 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
1036 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
1039 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
1040 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
1043 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
1045 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
1046 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
1048 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
1049 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
1050 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
1051 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1052 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
1053 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
1054 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
1055 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1056 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
1057 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
1061 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
1062 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
1063 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
1066 - Make the unit tests build again.
1067 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
1068 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
1069 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
1070 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
1071 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
1072 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1073 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
1074 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
1075 the next one as a duplicate.
1078 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
1079 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
1080 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
1081 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
1084 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
1085 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
1086 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
1089 o New directory authorities:
1090 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
1094 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
1095 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
1096 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
1097 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
1098 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
1099 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1100 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
1102 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
1103 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
1105 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1106 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1107 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
1108 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
1109 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
1110 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
1112 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
1113 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
1114 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1115 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
1116 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
1117 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1120 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
1121 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
1122 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
1123 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
1124 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
1125 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
1126 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
1127 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
1128 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
1129 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
1130 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
1131 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
1132 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
1133 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
1134 where Tor is blocked.
1135 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
1136 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
1137 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
1138 to a file periodically.
1139 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
1140 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
1141 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
1145 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
1146 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
1147 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
1148 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
1149 in the relevant networkstatus document.
1150 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
1151 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
1152 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1153 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
1154 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
1155 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
1156 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
1158 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
1159 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
1160 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
1161 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
1162 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
1163 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1164 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
1165 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
1166 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
1167 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1168 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
1169 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
1170 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
1171 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1172 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1173 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
1174 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
1175 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1176 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1177 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1178 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1179 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
1180 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1181 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
1182 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
1183 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1184 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
1185 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1188 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
1189 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
1190 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
1191 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
1192 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
1193 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
1194 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
1195 even if your DirPort isn't on.
1196 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
1197 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
1198 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
1200 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
1201 multiple controller passwords.
1202 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
1203 router based on the router's purpose.
1204 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
1205 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
1206 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
1207 the approved-routers file.
1210 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
1211 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
1212 well as a few minor bugs.
1215 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
1216 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
1217 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
1219 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1220 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1221 rebuild our server descriptor.
1223 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1224 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
1225 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
1226 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
1227 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
1228 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
1229 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
1230 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
1231 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
1232 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
1234 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
1235 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
1236 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
1237 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
1238 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
1239 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
1240 then be flexible about families.
1243 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
1244 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
1245 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
1249 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
1250 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
1251 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
1252 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
1253 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
1256 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1257 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1258 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1259 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1260 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1263 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1264 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
1266 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
1267 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
1268 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
1269 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
1270 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
1271 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
1272 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1274 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
1275 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
1276 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
1277 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
1280 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
1281 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
1284 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
1285 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
1286 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1289 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
1290 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
1291 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
1292 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
1293 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
1294 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
1295 addresses many more minor issues.
1297 o New directory authorities:
1298 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
1301 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
1302 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
1303 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
1304 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
1306 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
1307 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
1308 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
1309 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
1310 and are reaching it.
1311 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
1312 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
1313 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
1314 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
1315 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
1316 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
1319 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
1320 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
1322 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
1323 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
1324 no longer work for clients.
1325 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1326 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
1328 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
1329 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
1330 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
1331 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
1332 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
1333 enough directory information to build a circuit.
1334 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
1335 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
1336 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
1337 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
1338 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
1339 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
1341 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
1342 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
1343 requests for all of them.
1344 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
1346 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
1347 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
1348 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
1351 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
1352 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
1356 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
1357 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
1358 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
1359 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
1360 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
1361 networkstatuses that we already have.
1362 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
1363 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
1364 we start knowing some directory caches.
1365 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
1366 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
1367 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
1368 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
1369 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
1370 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
1371 Good in combination with --hash-password.
1372 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
1373 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
1375 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
1376 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
1377 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
1379 o Minor features (bridges):
1380 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
1381 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
1382 back to trying the bridge directly.
1383 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
1384 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
1386 o Minor features (controller):
1387 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
1388 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
1389 report the value as a "minimum skew."
1392 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
1393 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
1397 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
1398 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
1399 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
1400 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
1401 reported by tup and ioerror.
1402 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
1403 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
1405 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1406 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1408 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1409 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
1410 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
1412 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
1413 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1414 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
1415 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1416 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
1417 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1418 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
1420 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
1421 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
1422 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1424 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
1425 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
1426 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
1427 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
1428 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
1431 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
1432 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
1433 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
1434 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
1435 lists for a few hours each day.
1437 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1438 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1439 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1440 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
1441 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
1442 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1443 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1444 rend_process_relay_cell().
1446 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1447 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1448 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1449 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1450 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1451 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1452 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
1453 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
1455 o Major bugfixes (other):
1456 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
1457 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
1458 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
1459 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1460 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1461 circuit cannibalization).
1462 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1463 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1464 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1465 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1466 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1467 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
1470 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1471 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
1473 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1474 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
1475 absent. Resolves bug 467.
1476 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
1477 a way to trigger this remotely.)
1478 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1479 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1480 were reporting the dir port.)
1481 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1482 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
1483 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1484 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1485 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1487 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1488 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1489 the onion key from getting rotated.
1490 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1491 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1492 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1493 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
1494 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1495 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1496 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1497 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1498 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1501 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
1502 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
1503 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
1504 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
1505 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
1506 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
1508 o Major features (directory system):
1509 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
1510 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
1511 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
1512 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
1513 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
1514 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
1515 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
1516 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
1517 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
1518 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
1519 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
1520 Partially implements proposal 122.
1521 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
1522 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
1525 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
1526 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
1527 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
1528 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
1530 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1531 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1532 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1533 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1534 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1535 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1536 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
1537 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
1538 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1540 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
1541 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
1543 - Allow certificates to include an address.
1544 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
1545 and download operations.
1546 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
1547 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
1548 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
1549 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
1550 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
1551 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
1553 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
1554 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
1557 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
1558 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
1559 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
1560 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
1562 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
1563 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
1564 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
1566 o Minor features (performance):
1567 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
1568 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
1569 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
1570 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
1571 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
1572 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
1573 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
1576 o Minor features (compilation):
1577 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
1578 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
1580 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1581 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
1582 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
1583 stick around indefinitely.
1584 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
1586 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
1587 v3 directory authority.
1588 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
1589 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
1591 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
1592 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
1593 "moria on moria:9031."
1594 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
1595 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
1596 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
1597 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
1598 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
1599 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
1600 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
1601 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1604 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
1605 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
1606 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
1607 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
1608 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
1609 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
1610 downloads than for other types.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
1613 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
1615 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
1616 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
1617 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1619 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1620 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1621 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1622 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
1623 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
1624 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
1625 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
1626 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
1628 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1629 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
1630 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
1631 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
1632 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1633 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
1634 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
1635 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1636 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
1637 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
1638 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
1640 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
1641 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
1644 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1645 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
1646 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
1647 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
1648 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
1649 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
1650 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
1651 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
1652 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
1653 so that they all take the same named flags.
1656 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
1657 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
1658 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
1661 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
1662 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
1663 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
1664 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
1665 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
1666 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
1668 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
1669 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
1670 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
1671 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
1672 annotations along with descriptors.
1673 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
1674 source, and its purpose.
1675 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
1677 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
1678 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
1679 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
1680 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
1683 o Major features (directory authorities):
1684 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
1686 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
1687 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
1688 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
1689 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
1690 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
1691 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
1693 o Major features (v3 directory system):
1694 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
1695 and download the descriptors listed in them.
1696 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
1697 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
1698 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
1700 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1701 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1702 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1703 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
1706 o Major bugfixes (performance):
1707 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
1708 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
1709 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
1710 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
1712 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
1713 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
1714 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
1715 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
1716 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
1717 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1719 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
1720 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
1722 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
1723 certificate is requested.
1724 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
1725 certificate requests.
1727 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
1728 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
1729 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
1730 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
1733 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1734 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1735 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1736 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1738 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
1739 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
1741 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
1742 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
1743 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1744 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
1745 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
1746 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
1747 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
1748 downloads more sensible.
1749 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
1750 another when serving certificates.
1752 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1753 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
1754 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
1755 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
1757 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
1758 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1759 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
1761 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1762 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1764 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1765 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1766 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1767 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
1768 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1770 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1771 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
1772 WARN-severity events.
1773 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1774 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
1775 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1777 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
1778 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
1779 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
1781 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1782 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1783 circuit cannibalization).
1785 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1786 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
1787 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
1788 new module, networkstatus.c.
1789 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
1790 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
1791 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
1792 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
1793 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
1794 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
1795 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
1796 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
1797 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
1799 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
1801 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
1802 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1805 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
1806 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
1807 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
1808 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
1810 o New directory authorities:
1811 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
1812 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
1814 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1815 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1816 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1818 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1819 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
1820 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
1821 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
1822 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1823 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
1824 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
1825 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
1826 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
1827 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
1828 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1830 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1831 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1832 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1833 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1834 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1835 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1836 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
1837 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
1838 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
1840 o Minor features (security):
1841 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
1842 address maps to an internal address space.
1843 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
1844 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
1846 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1847 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
1848 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
1849 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
1850 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
1852 o Minor features (speed):
1853 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
1854 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
1855 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
1856 on big-endian hosts.)
1858 o Minor features (controller):
1859 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
1860 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
1861 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
1862 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
1866 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
1867 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
1868 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
1869 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
1870 implementation of proposal 104.
1871 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
1872 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
1873 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
1874 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
1875 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
1876 patch from Karsten Loesing.
1877 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
1878 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
1881 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1882 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
1883 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1884 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
1885 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1886 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
1887 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1888 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1889 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
1890 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1891 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
1892 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
1893 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
1894 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1895 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
1896 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
1897 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
1898 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1899 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
1900 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
1902 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1903 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
1904 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
1906 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
1907 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
1908 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
1909 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
1912 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
1913 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
1914 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
1915 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1916 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
1919 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
1920 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
1923 o Major bugfixes (security):
1924 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
1925 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
1926 become more of a headache than it's worth.
1928 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1929 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1930 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1932 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1933 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1934 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1935 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1936 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1937 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1939 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1940 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1941 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1942 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
1943 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
1945 o Minor features (controller):
1946 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
1947 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
1948 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
1949 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
1951 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1952 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
1953 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
1954 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
1955 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
1956 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
1957 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
1958 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
1960 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1961 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
1962 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
1963 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
1964 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
1965 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
1966 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
1967 if we ran off the end of the list.
1968 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
1969 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
1970 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
1971 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
1972 every time we change any piece of our config.
1973 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
1974 encourage people using them to stop.
1975 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
1977 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
1978 servers to choose a circuit.
1979 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
1980 unparseable piece of it.
1983 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
1984 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
1985 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
1986 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1989 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
1990 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
1991 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
1992 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
1993 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
1995 o New directory authorities:
1996 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
1999 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
2000 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
2001 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
2002 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
2004 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
2005 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
2006 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
2008 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
2009 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
2010 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
2011 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
2012 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
2013 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
2015 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
2016 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
2017 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2020 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
2021 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
2022 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
2023 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
2027 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
2028 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
2029 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
2030 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
2032 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
2033 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
2035 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
2036 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
2037 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
2038 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
2039 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
2040 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
2041 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2042 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
2043 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2044 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
2047 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
2048 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
2049 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
2050 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
2051 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
2052 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
2055 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
2056 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
2057 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
2058 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
2061 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
2062 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
2063 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
2064 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
2065 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
2068 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
2069 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
2070 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
2071 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2072 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
2075 o Minor features (directory servers):
2076 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
2077 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
2079 o Minor features (directory voting):
2080 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
2083 o Minor features (security):
2084 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
2085 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
2086 encourage people using them to stop.
2088 o Minor features (controller):
2089 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2090 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2091 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2092 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
2093 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
2094 cookie authentication file, and config option
2095 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
2097 o Minor features (unit testing):
2098 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
2099 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
2100 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
2101 logging for the unit tests.
2103 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2104 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
2105 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
2106 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
2107 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
2108 every time we change any piece of our config.
2109 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2110 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2111 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2113 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2114 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2115 the onion key from getting rotated.
2116 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
2117 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
2118 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
2121 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2122 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
2123 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
2125 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
2126 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
2127 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
2128 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
2131 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
2132 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
2133 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
2134 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
2135 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
2136 TorK, etc. Or worse.
2138 o Major security fixes:
2139 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2140 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2143 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
2144 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
2145 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
2146 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2148 o Major security fixes:
2149 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2150 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2152 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2153 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
2156 o Minor features (performance):
2157 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
2158 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
2159 performance-intensive.
2160 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2161 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
2162 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
2163 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
2164 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2165 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
2169 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
2170 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
2171 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
2172 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
2176 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
2177 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
2178 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
2179 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
2180 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
2182 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
2183 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
2184 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
2185 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
2187 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
2188 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
2189 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
2190 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
2191 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
2193 o Major features (experimental):
2194 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
2195 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
2196 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
2197 handling before it's ready for use.
2200 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
2201 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
2202 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
2203 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2204 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
2205 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
2207 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
2208 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
2209 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
2210 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
2211 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
2213 o Major bugfixes (directory):
2214 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
2215 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2217 o Minor features (controller):
2218 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
2219 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2220 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
2222 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
2224 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
2225 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
2227 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
2228 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
2229 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
2230 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
2231 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2232 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
2233 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
2236 o Minor features (misc):
2237 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
2239 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
2240 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
2241 the authority identity key.
2242 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
2244 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
2245 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
2246 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
2249 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
2250 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2251 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2252 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
2253 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2254 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2255 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2256 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2258 o Performance improvements:
2259 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
2261 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
2262 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
2265 o Deprecated and removed features:
2266 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
2267 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
2268 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
2269 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
2271 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2272 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
2273 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2274 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
2275 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
2276 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2277 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
2278 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
2279 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
2282 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2283 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
2284 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2285 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
2286 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
2288 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
2289 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
2292 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2293 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
2294 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
2295 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
2296 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
2297 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
2298 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
2299 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
2300 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
2303 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
2304 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
2305 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
2306 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
2308 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2309 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
2311 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2312 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
2313 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
2314 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
2315 routerlist while inserting a new router.
2316 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
2317 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
2319 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
2320 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
2321 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
2323 o Major bugfixes (security):
2324 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
2326 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
2327 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
2328 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
2329 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
2330 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
2331 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
2332 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
2333 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
2334 guard list unless we need to.
2336 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
2337 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
2338 don't get overused as guards.
2340 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2341 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
2342 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
2343 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
2344 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
2346 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2347 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
2348 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
2351 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2352 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2353 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
2354 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
2355 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
2356 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
2357 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
2358 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
2361 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
2362 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
2363 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
2364 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
2366 o Minor features (directory):
2367 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
2368 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
2369 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
2370 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
2372 o Minor build issues:
2373 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
2374 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
2375 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
2376 in the tarball, not as "x".
2379 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
2380 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
2381 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
2382 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
2383 forward on a lot of fronts.
2385 o Major features, server usability:
2386 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
2387 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
2388 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
2389 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
2391 o Major features, client usability:
2392 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
2393 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
2394 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
2395 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
2396 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
2397 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
2398 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
2399 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
2401 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
2402 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
2403 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
2404 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
2405 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
2406 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
2408 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
2409 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
2410 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
2412 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
2413 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
2414 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
2415 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
2416 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
2418 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
2419 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
2420 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
2421 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
2423 o Major features, other:
2424 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
2425 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
2426 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
2427 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
2428 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
2431 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
2432 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
2433 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
2436 o Minor fixes (resource management):
2437 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
2438 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
2439 our allocated connection limit.
2440 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
2441 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
2442 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
2443 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
2444 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
2446 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
2447 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
2448 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
2450 o Minor features (build):
2451 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
2452 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
2453 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
2454 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
2456 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
2457 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
2458 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
2459 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
2460 Use this version consistently in log messages.
2462 o Minor features (logging):
2463 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
2464 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
2465 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
2466 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
2467 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
2470 o Minor features (directory system):
2471 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
2472 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
2473 not to serve V2 directory information.
2474 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
2475 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
2476 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
2478 o Minor features (controller):
2479 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
2480 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
2482 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
2483 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
2484 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
2485 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
2486 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
2487 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
2489 o Minor features (hidden services):
2490 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
2491 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
2492 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
2493 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
2495 o Minor features (other):
2497 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
2498 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
2499 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
2500 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
2501 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
2502 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
2503 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
2504 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
2505 longer a completely silly thing to do.
2506 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
2507 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
2508 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
2509 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
2512 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
2513 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
2514 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
2515 back an error and close the connection.
2516 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
2517 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
2520 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2521 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
2522 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
2523 makes the log messages nicer.
2524 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
2525 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2526 partial results on small file reads.
2528 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2529 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
2530 more often than they are allowed to appear.
2531 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
2532 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
2534 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2535 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
2536 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
2537 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
2539 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2540 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
2541 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
2542 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
2543 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
2544 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
2545 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
2546 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2547 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
2548 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
2549 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
2551 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
2552 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
2553 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
2555 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2556 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
2557 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
2558 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
2560 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2561 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
2562 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
2564 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
2565 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
2568 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2569 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
2570 implicit in other procedure arguments.
2571 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
2572 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
2573 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
2574 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
2575 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
2576 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
2577 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
2578 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
2579 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
2582 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
2583 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
2584 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
2585 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
2587 o Directory authority changes:
2588 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
2589 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
2590 or use hidden services.
2592 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2593 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
2594 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
2595 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
2596 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
2597 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
2598 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
2599 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
2600 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
2603 o Major bugfixes (security):
2604 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
2605 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
2606 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
2608 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
2609 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
2610 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
2611 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
2612 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
2613 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
2614 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
2615 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
2616 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
2617 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
2620 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
2622 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
2623 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
2625 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
2626 having a hard time downloading.
2627 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2628 partial results on small file reads.
2629 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
2630 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
2631 the gaps in the store get very large.
2634 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
2635 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
2637 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
2638 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
2641 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
2642 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
2643 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
2644 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
2645 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
2646 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
2648 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
2649 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
2650 free speech on the Internet.
2653 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
2654 get one we don't recognize.
2655 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2656 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
2659 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
2661 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
2662 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
2663 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
2664 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
2667 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
2668 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
2671 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
2672 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
2673 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
2674 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
2675 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
2676 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
2680 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
2681 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2682 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
2683 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
2684 on Win98 and friends again.
2686 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2687 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
2688 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
2691 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
2692 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2693 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
2694 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
2695 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
2696 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
2697 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
2698 and maybe also bug 397.)
2700 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2701 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
2702 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
2704 o Minor bugfixes (server):
2705 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
2708 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2709 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
2710 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
2711 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
2712 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
2714 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2715 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
2716 load on authorities.
2718 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2719 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
2720 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
2721 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
2723 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
2725 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
2726 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
2727 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
2728 the last of bug 326.)
2729 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
2730 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
2734 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
2735 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2736 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
2737 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
2738 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
2739 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
2740 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
2742 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
2743 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
2745 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2746 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
2747 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
2749 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
2750 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
2751 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
2753 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2754 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
2755 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
2756 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
2758 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
2759 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
2761 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
2762 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
2763 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
2766 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2767 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
2768 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
2769 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
2770 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
2771 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
2772 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
2773 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
2774 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
2775 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
2776 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
2777 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
2778 other than file-not-found.
2779 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
2780 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
2781 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
2782 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
2783 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
2784 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
2785 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
2786 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
2787 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
2788 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
2789 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
2790 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
2791 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
2792 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
2793 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
2795 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
2797 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
2798 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
2800 o Minor features (controller):
2801 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
2802 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
2803 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
2805 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
2806 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2807 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
2808 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
2809 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
2810 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
2811 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
2812 connected or resolved cell.
2814 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2815 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
2816 some profiles, but not others.)
2817 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
2818 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
2819 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
2822 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
2824 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
2825 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
2826 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
2827 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
2828 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
2829 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
2830 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
2831 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
2832 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
2833 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
2834 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
2835 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
2836 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
2837 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
2838 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
2840 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
2843 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
2844 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
2845 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
2846 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
2847 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
2848 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
2849 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
2851 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
2852 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
2853 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
2854 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
2855 buckets go absurdly negative.
2856 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
2857 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
2860 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
2861 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
2862 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
2863 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
2864 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
2865 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
2866 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
2867 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
2870 o Major bugfixes (other):
2871 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
2872 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
2873 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
2874 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
2876 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
2878 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
2879 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
2881 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
2882 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
2883 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
2884 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
2885 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
2888 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2889 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
2890 possible memory-stomping bugs.
2891 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
2892 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
2894 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
2895 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
2896 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
2897 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
2898 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
2899 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
2901 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2902 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
2903 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
2904 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
2906 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
2907 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
2908 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
2909 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
2910 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
2911 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
2912 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
2913 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
2914 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
2915 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
2916 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
2917 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
2918 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
2920 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
2921 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
2922 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
2923 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
2924 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
2925 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
2926 to the resulting address.
2929 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
2930 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
2931 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
2932 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
2935 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
2936 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
2938 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
2939 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
2940 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
2941 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
2942 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
2943 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
2944 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
2945 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
2946 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
2947 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
2948 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
2949 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
2950 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
2951 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
2952 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
2953 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
2954 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
2957 o Minor features (controller):
2958 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
2959 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
2960 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
2961 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
2962 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
2963 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
2964 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
2968 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
2970 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
2971 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
2972 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
2973 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
2974 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
2975 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
2978 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
2979 weren't planning to resolve.
2980 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
2981 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
2982 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
2983 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
2984 the controller from learning about current events.
2986 o Minor features (more controller status events):
2987 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
2988 learn when our address changes.
2989 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
2990 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
2991 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
2992 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
2994 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
2995 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
2996 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
2997 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
2998 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
2999 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
3000 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
3001 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
3002 are accepted by a directory.
3003 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
3004 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
3005 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
3006 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
3007 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
3009 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
3010 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
3011 about changes to DNS server status.
3013 o Minor features (directory):
3014 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
3015 too much load to the exit nodes.
3018 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
3020 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
3021 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
3022 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
3023 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
3024 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
3026 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
3027 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
3028 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
3030 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
3031 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
3032 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
3033 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
3034 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
3035 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
3036 config options if you like.
3038 o Minor features (config and docs):
3039 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
3040 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
3041 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
3042 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
3043 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
3045 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
3046 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
3047 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
3048 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
3049 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
3051 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
3052 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
3053 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
3054 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
3055 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
3056 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
3057 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
3058 documentation: "make check-docs".
3059 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
3060 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
3062 o Minor features (DNS):
3063 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
3064 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
3065 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
3066 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
3067 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
3068 our tests for DNS hijacking.
3070 o Minor features (directory):
3071 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
3072 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
3073 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
3074 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
3075 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
3076 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
3077 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
3078 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
3079 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
3080 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
3081 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
3082 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
3083 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
3084 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
3085 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
3086 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
3087 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
3088 for the thing we're trying to download.
3089 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
3090 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
3091 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
3093 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
3094 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
3095 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
3098 o Minor features (controller):
3099 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
3100 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
3102 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
3103 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
3104 entry guard status as it changes.
3106 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
3107 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
3108 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
3109 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
3111 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
3112 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
3113 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
3114 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
3117 o Major bugfixes (security):
3118 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3119 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3120 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3121 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3123 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
3124 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
3125 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
3126 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
3127 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
3129 o Major bugfixes (other):
3130 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
3131 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
3132 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
3133 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
3135 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
3136 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
3137 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
3138 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
3139 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
3140 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
3144 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3145 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3146 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
3147 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
3148 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
3150 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
3151 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
3153 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
3154 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
3155 family lists conveniently.
3156 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
3157 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
3158 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
3160 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
3161 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
3163 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
3164 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
3165 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
3166 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
3167 if their identity keys are as expected.
3168 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
3169 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
3170 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
3172 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3173 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
3174 reported by Mike Perry.
3175 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
3176 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
3177 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
3178 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
3181 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
3182 o Security bugfixes:
3183 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3184 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3185 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3186 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3190 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3191 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3192 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
3195 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
3197 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
3198 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
3199 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
3202 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
3203 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
3204 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
3205 watching for STREAM events.
3206 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
3207 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
3208 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
3209 operations, for profiling.
3212 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
3213 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
3214 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
3215 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
3216 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
3217 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
3219 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
3223 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3224 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3225 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
3226 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
3227 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
3229 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
3230 correctly in the Windows installer.
3231 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3232 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3233 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
3235 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
3236 when we're running as a client.
3239 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
3241 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
3242 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
3243 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
3244 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
3245 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3246 its circuits on demand.
3247 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
3248 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
3249 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
3250 connections more stable on average.
3251 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3252 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3253 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3255 o Security bugfixes:
3256 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3257 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3260 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3262 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
3263 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
3264 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3265 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3266 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3267 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3268 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3269 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3272 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
3274 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
3275 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
3276 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
3277 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
3278 routers for even longer.
3279 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
3280 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
3281 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
3282 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
3283 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
3284 caching HTTP proxies.
3285 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
3288 o Minor features, controller:
3289 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
3290 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
3291 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
3292 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
3294 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
3295 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
3296 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
3297 working much like those for circuit events.
3298 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
3299 about the current status of a router.
3300 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
3301 a router's status has changed.
3302 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
3303 can tell which events and features are supported.
3304 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
3305 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
3307 o Security bugfixes:
3308 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3309 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3312 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
3313 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
3314 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
3315 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
3316 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3317 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
3318 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
3319 long nicknames where appropriate.
3320 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
3321 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
3322 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
3323 chews through many circuits before giving up.
3324 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
3325 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
3326 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
3327 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
3328 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
3329 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
3331 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
3332 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
3333 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
3335 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
3336 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
3337 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
3338 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
3339 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
3340 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
3341 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
3342 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
3343 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
3344 (reported by fookoowa).
3345 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
3346 and reported by some Centos users.
3347 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
3348 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
3349 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
3350 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
3351 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
3352 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
3353 before we check for libevent.
3356 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
3358 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
3359 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
3360 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
3361 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
3362 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
3363 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
3364 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
3365 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
3366 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
3367 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
3368 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
3369 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
3370 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
3371 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
3372 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
3373 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
3374 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
3375 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
3376 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
3377 lets you turn it off.
3378 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
3379 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
3380 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
3381 us into the directory more quickly.
3383 o New/improved config options:
3384 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
3385 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
3386 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
3387 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
3388 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
3389 all the machines on the same subnet.
3390 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
3391 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
3392 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
3393 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
3394 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
3395 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
3396 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
3397 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
3398 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
3399 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
3401 o Minor features, controller:
3402 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
3403 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
3404 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
3405 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
3406 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
3407 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
3408 for more information.
3409 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
3410 best guess to the user.
3411 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
3412 descriptor has changed.
3413 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
3415 o Minor features, other:
3416 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
3417 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
3418 useful to the network.
3419 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
3420 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
3421 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
3422 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
3423 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
3424 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
3425 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
3426 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
3427 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
3428 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
3429 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
3430 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
3431 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
3432 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
3433 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
3435 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
3436 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
3437 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
3438 could return an unnamed server instead.
3439 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
3440 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
3441 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
3442 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
3443 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
3444 a more attractive target for compromise.)
3445 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
3446 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
3447 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
3449 o Major bugfixes, other:
3450 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
3451 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
3452 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
3453 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
3454 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3455 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3456 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
3457 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3458 its circuits on demand.
3459 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
3460 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3461 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3462 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3464 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
3465 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3466 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3468 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3470 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
3471 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
3472 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3473 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
3474 "extendcircuit" request.
3475 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3476 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3477 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
3479 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
3480 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
3481 instead of "X resolved to X".
3482 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
3483 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
3484 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
3485 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
3486 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
3487 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
3488 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
3489 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
3490 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
3492 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
3493 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
3494 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
3495 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
3496 result more than once.
3497 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
3498 non-versioning dirservers.
3499 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
3500 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
3502 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
3503 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
3504 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
3505 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
3506 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
3507 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
3508 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
3509 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
3510 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
3512 o Packaging, features:
3513 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
3514 now universal binaries.
3515 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
3516 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
3517 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
3519 o Packaging, bugfixes:
3520 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
3521 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
3522 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
3523 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
3525 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
3526 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
3527 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
3530 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
3531 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
3532 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
3536 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
3538 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3539 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3540 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
3541 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
3542 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
3543 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
3544 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
3545 it can't resolve its hostname.
3548 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3549 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
3550 "extendcircuit" request.
3551 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3552 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3553 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3554 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3556 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
3557 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
3558 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
3560 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
3561 methods: these are known to be buggy.
3562 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3563 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3567 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
3569 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
3570 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
3571 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
3572 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
3573 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
3574 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
3575 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
3576 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
3577 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
3578 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
3579 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
3580 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
3581 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
3582 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
3583 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
3584 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
3585 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
3586 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
3587 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
3588 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
3589 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
3590 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
3591 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
3592 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
3595 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
3596 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
3597 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
3598 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
3599 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
3600 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
3601 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
3602 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
3603 recommendation system saner.)
3604 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
3606 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
3607 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
3608 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
3609 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
3610 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
3611 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
3612 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
3613 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
3614 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
3615 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
3616 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
3617 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
3619 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
3620 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
3621 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
3622 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
3623 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
3624 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
3625 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
3626 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
3627 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
3628 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
3629 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
3630 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
3632 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
3633 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
3634 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
3635 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
3636 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
3637 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
3640 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
3641 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
3642 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
3643 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
3644 our DirPort now, etc.
3645 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3646 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
3647 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
3648 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
3649 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
3650 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3651 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3653 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
3654 whether the config options are bad or good.
3655 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
3656 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
3657 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
3658 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
3659 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
3660 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
3661 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
3662 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
3665 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
3666 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
3667 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
3668 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
3669 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
3670 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
3671 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
3672 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
3673 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
3674 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
3675 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
3676 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
3677 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
3678 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
3679 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
3680 of it), is not therefore "up".
3681 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
3682 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
3683 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
3684 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
3685 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
3686 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
3689 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
3691 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
3692 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
3693 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
3694 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
3695 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
3696 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
3697 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
3698 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
3699 test reachability, so you won't publish.
3702 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
3703 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
3704 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
3705 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
3706 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
3708 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
3709 own server descriptor yet.
3712 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
3714 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
3715 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
3716 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
3717 make sure to test via one of these.
3718 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
3719 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
3720 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
3721 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
3722 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
3724 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
3725 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
3726 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
3729 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
3730 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
3731 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
3732 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
3733 directory authority.
3734 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
3735 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
3736 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
3737 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
3740 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
3741 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
3742 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
3744 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
3745 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
3746 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
3747 current guards when picking a new guard.
3748 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
3749 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
3750 when we had more than one pending.
3751 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
3752 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
3753 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
3754 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
3755 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
3756 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
3757 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
3758 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
3759 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
3760 debug the reachability problems better.
3762 o Log / documentation fixes:
3763 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
3764 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
3765 about protocol violations by others.
3766 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
3767 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
3768 about what happened to our old torrc.
3771 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
3773 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
3775 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
3776 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
3777 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
3778 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
3781 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
3783 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
3784 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
3785 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
3786 old ORPort and receive connections.
3787 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
3789 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
3790 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
3791 and network-statuses.
3792 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
3793 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
3794 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
3795 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
3797 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
3800 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
3801 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
3802 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
3805 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
3807 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
3808 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
3809 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
3810 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
3811 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
3814 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
3815 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
3817 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
3818 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
3819 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
3820 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
3821 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
3822 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
3823 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
3824 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
3825 rather than not sending anything back at all.
3826 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
3827 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
3828 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
3829 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
3830 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
3831 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
3832 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
3833 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
3834 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
3835 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
3836 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
3837 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
3838 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
3839 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
3840 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
3841 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
3842 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
3843 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
3844 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
3845 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
3846 default ulimit -n is 1024.
3849 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
3850 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
3851 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
3852 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
3855 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
3857 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
3858 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
3859 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
3860 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
3861 entry guards running these flawed versions.
3862 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
3863 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
3864 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
3865 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
3866 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
3869 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
3870 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
3872 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
3873 and it is confusing some users.
3874 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
3875 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
3876 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
3877 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
3878 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
3881 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
3883 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
3884 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
3885 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
3886 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
3887 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
3888 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
3889 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
3890 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
3891 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
3892 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
3893 dirport is set for now.
3895 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
3896 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
3897 unattached before we fail it?
3898 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
3899 at least this many seconds ago.
3900 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
3901 at least this many seconds ago.
3904 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
3905 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
3906 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
3907 or resolve-wait stream.
3908 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
3909 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
3910 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
3911 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
3912 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
3913 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
3914 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
3915 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
3917 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
3918 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
3919 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
3920 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
3921 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
3922 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
3923 given as hex digests.
3924 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
3925 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
3926 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
3927 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
3928 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
3929 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
3930 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
3931 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
3934 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3935 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
3936 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
3937 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
3938 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
3939 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
3940 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
3941 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
3942 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
3943 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
3944 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
3947 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
3948 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
3949 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
3950 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
3951 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
3952 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
3953 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
3956 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
3957 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
3958 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
3959 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
3960 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
3961 misreading their logs.
3962 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
3963 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
3964 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
3965 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
3966 valid router descriptors.
3967 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
3968 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
3969 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
3970 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
3971 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
3972 silently resetting it to its default.
3973 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
3975 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
3978 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
3980 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
3981 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
3982 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
3983 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
3984 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
3986 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
3987 because older Tors do not understand it.
3988 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
3992 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
3993 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3994 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
3995 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
3996 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
3997 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
3998 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
3999 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
4000 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
4001 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
4002 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
4004 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
4005 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
4006 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
4007 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
4009 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
4010 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
4013 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
4014 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
4015 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4016 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4017 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4018 without getting overloaded.
4019 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
4021 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
4022 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
4023 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
4024 be forward-compatible.
4025 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
4026 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
4027 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
4028 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
4030 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
4031 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
4032 and OR conns to port 443.
4033 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
4034 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
4036 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
4037 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
4038 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
4039 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
4040 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
4041 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
4042 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
4045 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
4046 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4047 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
4048 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
4050 o Other important bugfixes:
4051 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4052 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4053 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4054 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4056 o Backported features:
4057 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4058 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4059 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4060 without getting overloaded.
4061 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
4062 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
4063 503's whenever they feel busy.
4064 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
4065 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
4066 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
4067 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
4068 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
4071 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
4072 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4073 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
4074 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
4075 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
4076 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
4077 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
4078 know if the crashes continue.
4079 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
4080 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
4081 seg faults in at least some cases.)
4082 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
4083 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
4084 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
4087 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
4088 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
4089 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
4090 try to be a bit more fair.
4091 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
4092 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
4093 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
4094 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
4095 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
4096 bug that let it go negative.
4097 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
4098 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
4099 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
4100 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
4101 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4102 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4103 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4104 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4105 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
4106 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
4107 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
4110 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
4112 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
4113 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
4114 service descriptors.
4117 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
4118 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
4119 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
4120 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
4122 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
4123 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
4124 versions *are* still recommended.
4125 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
4126 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
4127 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
4128 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
4129 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
4130 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
4131 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
4132 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
4134 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
4135 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
4136 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
4137 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
4138 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
4139 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
4140 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
4141 on it. Not used by clients yet.
4142 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
4143 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
4144 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
4145 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
4146 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
4147 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
4148 established a circuit.
4149 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
4150 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
4151 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
4152 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
4155 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
4156 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4157 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
4158 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
4159 quickly enough. Oops.
4160 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
4162 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4163 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
4166 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
4167 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4168 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
4169 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
4170 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
4171 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
4172 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
4173 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
4174 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
4175 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
4176 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
4177 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
4178 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
4179 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
4180 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
4181 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
4182 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
4185 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
4186 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
4187 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
4188 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
4189 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
4190 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
4191 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
4192 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
4193 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
4194 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
4195 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
4196 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
4197 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
4198 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
4199 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
4200 connections more reliable.
4203 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
4204 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
4205 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
4206 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
4207 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
4208 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
4209 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
4210 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
4211 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
4212 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
4213 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
4214 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
4215 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
4216 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
4220 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
4221 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
4222 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
4223 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
4224 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
4225 need to be uint64_t's.
4226 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
4227 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
4228 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
4230 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
4232 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
4233 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
4234 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
4235 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
4236 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
4237 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
4238 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
4240 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
4241 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
4242 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
4243 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
4244 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
4245 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
4246 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
4247 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
4248 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
4249 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
4250 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
4251 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
4252 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
4255 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
4256 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
4257 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
4258 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
4259 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
4260 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
4261 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
4263 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
4264 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
4265 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
4266 can answer v2 directory requests too.
4267 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
4268 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
4269 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
4270 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
4272 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
4273 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
4274 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
4275 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
4276 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
4277 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
4278 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
4279 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
4280 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
4281 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
4282 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
4283 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
4284 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
4285 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
4286 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
4288 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
4289 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
4292 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
4293 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4294 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4295 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4296 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4297 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
4298 too -- so detect and avoid this.
4299 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
4301 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
4302 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4303 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4304 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
4305 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
4306 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4307 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4308 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
4309 rendezvous circuits.
4310 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
4312 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4313 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
4314 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
4315 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
4316 advertising it because of hibernation.
4317 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
4318 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4319 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4320 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4321 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4322 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4323 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
4324 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
4325 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
4326 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
4327 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
4328 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
4329 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
4330 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
4333 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
4334 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4335 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4336 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4337 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4338 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
4339 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
4340 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4341 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4342 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4343 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4344 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4345 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4346 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4347 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
4348 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
4349 connections once a week.
4350 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4351 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4352 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
4353 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
4354 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
4355 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
4357 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
4358 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
4359 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
4361 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4362 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
4363 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
4364 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
4365 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
4366 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
4367 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
4368 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
4369 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
4370 firewall options forbid.
4371 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
4372 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
4373 can only proxy to certain destinations.
4374 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
4375 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
4376 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
4377 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
4378 aids some statistical attacks.
4379 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
4380 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
4381 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
4382 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
4384 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4385 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
4386 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
4387 server descriptor sometimes.
4388 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
4389 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
4390 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
4391 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
4392 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
4393 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
4394 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
4395 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
4397 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
4398 case the controller wants to change that too.
4399 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
4400 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
4401 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
4402 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
4404 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
4405 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
4406 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
4408 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
4409 descriptors that they know they will reject.
4411 o Features and updates:
4412 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
4413 significantly faster.
4414 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
4415 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
4416 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
4417 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
4418 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
4419 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
4420 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
4421 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
4422 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
4423 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
4424 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
4425 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
4426 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
4427 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
4428 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
4429 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
4430 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
4431 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
4432 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
4433 as authoritative dirserver.
4434 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
4435 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
4436 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
4439 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
4440 o Usability improvements:
4441 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
4442 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
4444 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
4445 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
4446 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
4448 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
4449 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
4450 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
4451 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
4452 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
4453 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
4454 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
4455 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
4456 memory leaks better.
4457 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
4458 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
4459 their operators to pay close attention.
4460 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
4461 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
4463 o Performance improvements:
4464 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
4465 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
4466 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
4467 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
4468 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
4469 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
4470 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
4471 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
4472 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
4473 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
4474 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
4475 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
4476 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
4477 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
4478 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
4479 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
4480 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
4482 o Security improvements:
4483 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
4484 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
4485 fingerprint of server.
4486 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
4487 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
4488 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
4490 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4491 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
4492 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
4493 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
4494 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
4495 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
4496 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
4497 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
4498 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
4499 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
4500 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
4501 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
4502 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
4503 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
4504 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
4505 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
4506 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
4507 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
4508 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
4509 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
4510 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
4512 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
4513 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
4514 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
4516 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
4517 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
4519 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
4520 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
4521 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
4522 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
4523 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
4524 of the controller protocol.
4525 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
4526 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
4527 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
4530 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
4531 o New features (major):
4532 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
4533 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
4534 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
4535 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
4536 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
4537 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
4538 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
4539 we're using a default DirPort.
4540 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
4542 o New features (minor):
4543 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
4544 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
4545 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
4546 mirrors still cache and serve it).
4547 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
4548 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
4549 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
4550 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
4551 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
4552 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
4553 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
4554 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
4555 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
4556 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
4557 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
4558 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
4559 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
4560 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
4561 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
4563 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
4564 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
4565 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
4566 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
4567 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
4568 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
4569 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
4570 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
4572 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
4573 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
4574 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
4575 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
4576 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
4577 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
4578 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
4579 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
4580 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
4581 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
4583 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
4584 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4585 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4586 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4587 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4590 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
4591 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
4593 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
4594 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
4596 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
4597 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
4598 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
4599 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
4600 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
4601 don't warn twice about the same name.
4602 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
4603 if we've not heard of the server.
4604 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
4605 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
4608 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
4609 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4610 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
4611 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4612 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4613 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4614 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4615 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
4616 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
4617 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4618 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4619 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
4620 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
4621 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
4622 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
4625 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
4626 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
4627 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
4628 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
4629 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
4631 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
4632 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
4633 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
4634 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
4635 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
4636 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
4640 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
4641 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
4642 nickname) is reachable by you.
4643 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
4647 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
4648 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
4649 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
4650 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
4651 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
4652 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
4653 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
4654 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
4655 we fail to connect).
4656 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
4657 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
4658 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
4659 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
4661 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
4662 it was self-testing that told us so.
4665 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
4666 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
4667 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4668 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4669 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
4670 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
4671 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
4672 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
4673 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
4674 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
4675 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
4676 exit policy using him for any exits.
4677 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
4680 o New controller features/fixes:
4681 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
4682 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
4683 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
4684 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
4685 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
4686 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
4687 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
4688 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
4689 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
4691 o Start on the new directory design:
4692 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
4693 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
4695 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
4696 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
4697 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
4698 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
4700 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
4701 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
4702 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
4703 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
4704 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
4705 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
4706 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
4707 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
4710 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
4711 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
4712 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
4713 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
4714 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
4715 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
4716 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
4717 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
4718 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
4719 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
4721 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
4722 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
4723 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
4724 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
4725 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
4726 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
4727 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
4728 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
4729 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
4731 o Config option changes:
4732 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
4733 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
4734 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
4735 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4736 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4737 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
4740 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
4741 people have started using them for spam too.
4742 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
4743 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
4744 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
4745 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
4746 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
4747 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
4748 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
4749 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
4750 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
4751 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
4752 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
4753 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
4754 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
4755 services faster on the service end.
4756 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
4757 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
4758 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
4759 it a fair shake next time we try.
4760 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
4761 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
4762 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
4763 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
4764 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
4765 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
4766 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
4767 able to discover them.
4768 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
4769 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
4770 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
4771 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
4772 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
4773 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
4774 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
4775 testing for reachability.
4776 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
4777 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
4779 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
4781 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
4782 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
4785 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
4786 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
4788 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4789 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
4790 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
4791 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
4794 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
4795 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4796 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
4798 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
4799 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
4802 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
4803 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
4806 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
4807 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
4808 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
4809 options, getinfo keys.
4812 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
4813 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4814 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
4815 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4816 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4817 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
4818 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
4820 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
4821 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
4825 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
4826 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4827 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
4829 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
4831 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
4832 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
4833 circuit events and we go offline.
4834 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
4835 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
4836 you don't have enough intro points already.
4838 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4839 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
4840 many bytes we've used in this time period.
4841 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
4842 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
4843 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
4844 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
4845 enabled by default yet.
4847 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
4848 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
4849 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
4850 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4851 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4854 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
4855 o New directory servers:
4856 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4858 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4859 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4860 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4862 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
4863 claims its dirport is 0.
4864 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
4865 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
4869 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
4870 o New directory servers:
4871 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4873 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
4874 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
4876 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
4877 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
4878 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
4879 ports that have changed.
4880 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4882 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
4883 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
4884 Windows-style errno back.
4885 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
4887 want to make it an NT service.
4888 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
4889 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
4890 name, give the full name in our response.
4891 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
4892 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
4893 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
4894 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4897 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4898 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
4902 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
4903 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
4904 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
4905 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
4906 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
4909 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
4910 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4911 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
4912 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
4913 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4914 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4915 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4916 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
4919 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
4921 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4922 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4923 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4924 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
4925 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
4926 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
4928 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
4929 temporarily unreachable.
4930 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
4934 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
4935 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
4936 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
4938 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
4942 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
4943 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
4944 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
4945 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
4946 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
4950 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
4951 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
4952 libevent before 1.1a.
4955 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
4957 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
4958 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
4959 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
4960 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
4961 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
4963 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
4964 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
4965 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
4966 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
4967 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
4968 of CPU time plus memory.
4969 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
4970 normal web requests.
4971 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
4972 tor_lookup_hostname().
4973 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
4974 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
4975 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
4976 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
4977 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
4978 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
4980 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
4981 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
4982 HttpProxyAuthenticator
4983 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
4984 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
4985 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
4987 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
4988 the user asks you to.
4989 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
4990 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
4991 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
4992 their descriptors are being rejected.
4993 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
4997 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
4999 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
5000 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
5001 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
5003 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
5005 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
5007 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
5008 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
5009 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
5010 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
5011 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
5012 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
5013 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
5014 keys) from the exit server's process.
5015 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
5016 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
5017 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
5018 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
5019 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
5020 point at your Tor server.
5021 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
5022 you're not sending a socks reply back.
5025 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
5026 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
5027 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
5028 to make it easier to write controllers.
5031 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
5033 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
5034 installing on Tiger.
5035 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
5036 complain during installation.
5037 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
5038 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
5039 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
5040 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
5041 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
5042 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
5044 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
5045 something more reasonable when first installing.
5046 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
5049 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
5051 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
5052 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
5054 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
5055 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
5056 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
5057 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
5058 when using the default exit policy.
5059 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
5060 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
5061 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
5062 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
5063 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
5064 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
5065 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
5066 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
5067 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
5068 we fetched a new directory.
5069 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
5070 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
5073 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
5074 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
5075 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
5076 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
5077 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
5078 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
5079 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
5080 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
5082 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
5083 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
5084 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
5085 save memory on systems that need to fork.
5086 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
5087 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
5088 is valid without actually launching Tor.
5089 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
5090 rather than just rejecting it.
5093 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
5095 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
5096 we didn't like its cert.
5098 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
5099 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
5100 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
5101 on patch from Adam Langley.
5102 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
5103 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
5104 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
5105 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
5107 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
5108 directory every time you regenerate it.
5109 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
5110 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
5113 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
5114 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5115 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5116 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
5117 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
5120 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
5122 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5123 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
5124 TLS errors better in other situations too.
5125 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
5126 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
5127 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
5128 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
5129 and don't log when you are.
5130 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
5131 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
5133 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
5134 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
5135 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
5136 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
5137 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
5140 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
5141 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5142 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
5143 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
5144 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
5145 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
5146 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
5147 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
5148 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
5149 nickname+key are allowed.
5150 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
5151 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
5152 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
5153 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
5154 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
5155 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
5156 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
5157 have quite wrong clocks).
5158 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
5159 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
5160 - Efficiency improvements:
5161 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
5162 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
5163 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
5164 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
5165 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
5166 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
5167 lowercase and be done with it.
5168 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
5169 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
5170 to abandon partially built circuits.
5171 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
5172 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
5174 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
5176 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
5177 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
5178 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
5179 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
5181 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
5182 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
5184 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5185 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
5186 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
5187 obeying the exit policy internally.
5188 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
5189 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
5191 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
5192 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
5193 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
5194 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
5196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
5197 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
5198 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
5199 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
5200 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
5202 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
5203 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
5204 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
5205 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
5206 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
5207 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
5208 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
5209 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
5210 descriptors we just dropped.
5211 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
5212 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
5213 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
5214 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
5215 artificially capped at 500kB.
5218 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
5219 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5220 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
5221 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
5222 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
5223 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
5224 busy for more than 100 seconds.
5227 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
5228 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
5229 - Fixes on reachability detection:
5230 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
5231 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
5232 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
5233 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
5234 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
5235 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
5236 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
5237 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
5238 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
5239 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
5240 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
5241 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
5242 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
5243 server not already connected to them.
5244 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
5245 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
5246 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
5248 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
5250 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
5251 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
5252 are in a different state than they actually are.
5253 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
5254 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
5255 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
5257 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
5258 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
5259 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
5261 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
5262 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
5263 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
5264 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
5265 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
5266 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
5267 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
5269 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
5270 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
5271 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
5272 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
5275 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
5276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5277 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
5278 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
5279 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
5280 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
5281 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
5282 creating actual system users.
5283 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
5284 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
5288 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
5290 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
5291 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
5292 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
5293 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
5294 hidden services better.
5295 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
5297 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
5298 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
5299 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
5300 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
5301 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
5302 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
5303 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
5304 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
5305 patch by Matt Edman).
5306 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
5307 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
5308 required exit node for certain sites.
5309 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
5310 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
5311 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
5312 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
5313 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
5314 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
5315 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
5316 rather than just "success" or "failure".
5317 - A more sane version numbering system. See
5318 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
5319 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
5320 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
5322 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
5323 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
5324 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
5325 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
5326 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
5327 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
5328 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
5330 o Robustness/stability fixes:
5331 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
5332 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
5333 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
5335 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
5336 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
5337 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
5339 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
5340 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
5341 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
5343 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
5344 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
5345 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
5346 that will want high uptime circuits.
5347 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
5348 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
5349 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
5350 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
5351 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
5352 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
5353 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
5354 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
5355 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
5356 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
5357 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
5358 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
5359 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
5360 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
5361 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
5362 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
5363 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
5364 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
5365 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
5366 when we try to launch one.
5367 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
5368 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
5369 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
5370 "ShutdownWaitLength".
5371 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
5372 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
5373 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
5374 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
5375 and to take errno into account where possible.
5378 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
5379 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
5380 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
5381 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
5382 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
5383 file more reasonable.
5384 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
5385 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
5386 addresses -- it won't.
5387 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
5388 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
5389 for google.com" problem.
5390 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
5391 so it's not just "unknown platform".
5392 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
5393 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
5394 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
5395 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
5397 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
5398 they could use instead.
5399 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
5400 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
5401 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
5402 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
5403 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
5404 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
5405 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
5406 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
5407 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
5409 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
5413 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
5414 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
5416 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
5417 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
5418 private-IP addresses.
5419 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
5420 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
5422 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
5423 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
5424 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
5425 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
5426 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
5427 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
5428 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
5430 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
5431 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
5432 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
5433 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
5434 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
5435 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
5436 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
5437 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
5439 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
5441 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
5442 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
5443 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
5444 whether the server is hibernating.
5447 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
5448 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
5449 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
5450 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
5451 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
5452 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
5453 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
5454 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
5455 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
5456 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
5457 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
5458 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
5459 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
5460 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
5461 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
5463 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
5464 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
5465 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
5466 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
5467 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
5468 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
5469 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
5470 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
5471 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
5472 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
5473 existing torrc files.
5474 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
5477 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
5478 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5479 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
5480 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
5481 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
5482 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
5483 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
5484 the win32 SYSTEM account.
5485 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
5486 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
5487 file descriptors available.
5488 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
5489 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
5490 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
5493 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
5494 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5495 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
5496 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
5498 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
5499 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
5500 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
5501 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
5502 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
5504 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
5505 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
5506 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
5507 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
5508 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
5509 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
5510 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
5511 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
5512 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
5513 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
5514 800kB/s of capacity.
5515 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
5518 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
5519 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5520 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
5521 need as much processor time.
5522 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
5523 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
5524 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
5525 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
5526 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
5527 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
5528 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
5529 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
5530 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
5531 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
5532 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
5533 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
5535 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
5536 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
5537 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
5538 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
5539 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
5540 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
5541 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
5544 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
5545 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
5546 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
5548 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
5549 style address, then we'd crash.
5550 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
5551 a dirserver is broken.
5552 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
5554 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
5555 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
5556 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
5558 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
5559 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
5560 name out of the warning/assert messages.
5561 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
5562 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
5563 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
5565 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
5566 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
5567 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
5569 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
5571 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
5572 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
5573 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
5574 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
5575 values at once couldn't work.
5576 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
5577 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
5578 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
5579 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
5580 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
5581 they can handle any number of routers.
5582 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
5583 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
5584 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
5585 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
5586 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
5587 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
5588 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
5589 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
5590 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
5593 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
5594 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5595 - Make hibernation actually work.
5596 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
5597 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
5598 don't use the stream status code.
5601 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
5603 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
5604 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
5606 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
5609 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
5610 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
5611 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
5612 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
5613 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
5614 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
5615 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
5616 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
5617 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
5618 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
5620 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5621 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
5622 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
5623 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
5624 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
5625 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
5626 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
5627 - Make unit tests work on win32.
5630 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
5631 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5632 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
5634 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
5635 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
5636 than just chopping them off.
5637 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
5639 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5640 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
5641 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
5642 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
5643 right after sending the begin cell.
5644 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
5645 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
5646 exit nodes too. Oops.
5649 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
5650 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
5651 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
5652 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
5653 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
5654 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
5655 the user knows which one it's talking about.
5656 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
5657 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
5658 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
5661 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
5662 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5663 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
5664 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
5666 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
5668 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5669 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
5670 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
5672 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
5673 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
5674 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
5675 Clip rather than rejecting.
5676 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
5677 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
5680 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
5681 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
5682 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
5683 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
5685 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
5688 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
5689 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5690 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
5691 win32 socket errors better.
5693 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5694 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
5697 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
5698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5699 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
5700 so we don't see those messages days later.
5702 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5703 - Make tor-resolve work again.
5704 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
5705 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
5708 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
5709 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5710 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
5711 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
5713 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
5714 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
5715 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
5718 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
5719 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5720 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
5721 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
5722 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
5723 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
5724 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
5725 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
5726 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
5728 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
5729 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
5730 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
5731 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
5733 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
5734 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
5737 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
5738 hibernation properties by
5739 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
5740 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
5741 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
5742 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
5743 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
5744 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
5745 get back to normal.)
5746 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
5748 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
5749 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
5750 to fill the last cell completely.
5751 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
5754 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
5755 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5756 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
5757 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
5758 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
5759 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
5760 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
5761 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
5762 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
5763 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
5764 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
5766 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
5767 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
5768 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
5769 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
5770 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
5771 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
5772 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
5773 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
5775 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
5776 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
5777 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
5778 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
5779 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
5780 have it on start-up.
5783 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
5784 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
5785 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
5786 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
5787 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
5788 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
5789 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
5790 configuration to torrc.
5791 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
5792 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
5793 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
5794 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
5795 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
5797 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
5798 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
5799 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
5800 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
5801 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
5802 log more informatively.
5803 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
5804 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
5805 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
5806 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
5807 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
5808 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
5809 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
5810 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
5811 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
5812 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
5813 from each other, to hinder linkability.
5816 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
5817 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
5818 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
5819 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
5820 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
5821 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
5822 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
5824 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
5825 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
5826 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
5827 they ran out of file descriptors.
5828 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
5829 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
5830 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
5831 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
5832 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
5833 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
5834 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
5836 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
5839 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
5840 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
5841 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
5842 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
5843 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
5844 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
5845 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
5846 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
5847 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
5848 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
5849 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
5850 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
5851 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
5852 with the control port.
5853 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
5854 use in authenticating to the control interface.
5855 - New log format in config:
5856 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
5857 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
5860 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
5861 from their dirserver.
5862 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
5864 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
5865 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
5866 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
5867 them act more like real nodes.
5868 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
5869 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
5871 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
5872 nickname to its identity key.
5873 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
5874 not on the command line.
5875 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
5876 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
5877 1024) file descriptors.
5879 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
5880 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
5882 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
5883 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
5884 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
5887 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
5888 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
5889 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
5890 exit policy, not reject *:*.
5891 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
5892 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
5893 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
5894 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
5895 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
5896 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
5897 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
5900 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
5901 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
5902 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
5903 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
5904 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
5905 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
5906 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
5909 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
5910 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5911 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
5912 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
5913 the ones we find in directories.)
5914 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
5916 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
5917 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
5919 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
5920 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
5921 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
5923 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
5924 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
5925 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
5926 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
5928 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
5929 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
5930 any more exit policy lines.
5933 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
5934 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
5935 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
5936 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
5937 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
5938 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
5939 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
5940 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
5941 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
5942 will be able to get a directory.
5943 - Http proxy support
5944 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
5945 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
5946 be routed through this host.
5947 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
5948 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
5949 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
5950 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
5953 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
5955 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
5956 clients/servers with an open dirport.
5957 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
5958 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
5959 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5960 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5961 intermittent connections.
5962 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
5963 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
5965 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
5966 in reporting stats locally.
5967 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
5968 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
5969 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
5972 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
5974 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
5975 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
5978 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
5980 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
5981 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
5982 if you don't want it open.
5983 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
5984 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
5985 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
5986 intermittent connections.
5987 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
5989 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
5990 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
5991 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
5992 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
5993 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
5994 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
5995 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
5996 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
5997 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
5998 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
5999 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
6000 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
6001 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
6002 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
6003 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
6004 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
6007 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
6008 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
6009 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
6010 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
6011 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
6013 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
6015 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
6016 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
6017 specified in HTTP 1.0.
6018 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
6019 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
6020 than once per minute.
6021 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
6022 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
6025 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
6026 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
6029 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
6030 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
6031 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
6032 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
6035 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
6036 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
6038 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
6039 don't put it into the client dns cache.
6040 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
6041 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
6042 until we get our next directory.
6044 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
6045 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
6046 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
6047 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
6048 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
6049 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
6050 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
6051 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
6052 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
6053 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
6054 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
6056 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
6058 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
6059 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
6061 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
6062 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
6063 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
6065 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
6067 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
6068 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
6069 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
6070 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
6071 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
6072 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
6073 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
6074 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
6077 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
6078 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
6079 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
6080 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
6083 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
6084 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
6085 ask them to resolve the host "".
6088 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
6089 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6090 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
6091 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
6092 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
6093 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
6094 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
6095 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
6096 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
6097 clients don't use this yet.)
6098 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
6099 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
6100 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
6101 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
6102 for pointing out this bug.)
6103 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
6104 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
6105 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
6106 kazaa, gnutella ports.
6107 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
6109 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
6110 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
6111 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
6112 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
6113 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
6114 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
6115 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
6116 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
6117 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
6119 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
6120 that's still handshaking.
6121 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
6122 you'll choose it for your path.
6123 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
6124 end relay cell, etc.
6125 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
6126 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
6127 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
6130 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
6131 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6133 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
6134 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
6135 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
6136 list to decide who's running or verified.
6137 - Bugfixes and features:
6138 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
6139 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
6140 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
6141 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
6142 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
6143 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
6145 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
6146 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
6147 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
6148 know you might want to get it verified.
6149 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
6152 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
6154 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
6155 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
6156 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
6157 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
6160 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
6161 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
6162 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
6163 hadn't heard of before.
6166 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
6167 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
6168 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
6169 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
6170 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
6171 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
6172 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
6173 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
6174 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
6175 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
6176 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
6177 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
6178 - Directory caching.
6179 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
6180 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
6181 directory they've pulled down.
6182 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
6183 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
6184 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
6185 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
6186 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
6187 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
6188 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
6190 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
6191 This isn't used yet.
6192 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
6193 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
6194 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
6195 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
6196 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
6197 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
6198 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
6199 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
6200 - File and name management:
6201 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
6202 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
6204 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
6205 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
6206 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
6207 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
6208 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
6209 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
6210 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
6212 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
6213 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
6214 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
6215 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
6216 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
6218 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
6219 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
6220 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
6221 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
6222 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
6223 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
6224 - New docs in the tarball:
6226 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
6229 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
6230 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
6231 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
6234 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
6235 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
6236 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
6239 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
6240 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
6243 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
6244 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
6245 - Make it build on Win32 again.
6246 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
6247 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
6251 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
6253 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
6254 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
6255 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
6256 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
6257 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
6258 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
6259 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
6260 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
6261 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
6262 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
6265 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
6268 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
6269 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
6270 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
6271 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
6273 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
6274 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
6275 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
6277 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
6278 hidden service per 15-minute period.
6279 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
6280 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
6281 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
6282 o Fixes for security bugs:
6283 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
6284 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
6285 a trusted dirserver.
6287 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
6288 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
6289 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
6290 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
6291 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
6292 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
6293 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
6294 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
6295 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
6296 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
6298 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
6299 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
6300 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
6301 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
6303 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
6304 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
6305 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
6306 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
6307 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
6308 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
6309 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
6310 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
6311 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
6312 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
6313 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
6314 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
6315 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
6318 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
6319 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
6320 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
6321 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6324 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
6325 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
6326 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
6327 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
6328 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
6329 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6330 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
6334 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
6338 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
6339 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
6340 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
6341 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
6342 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
6344 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
6347 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
6348 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
6349 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
6350 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
6351 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
6352 o Better debugging for tls errors
6353 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
6354 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
6355 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
6356 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
6357 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
6358 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
6359 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
6360 o win32's close can't close a socket.
6363 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
6364 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
6365 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
6366 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
6367 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
6368 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
6369 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
6370 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
6371 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
6372 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
6373 just close the circ.
6374 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
6375 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
6376 (this was quite rare).
6379 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
6380 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
6381 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
6382 if you decrypted them correctly.
6383 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
6384 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
6385 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
6388 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
6389 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
6390 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
6391 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
6392 a second one and it works.
6393 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
6394 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
6395 alice would just have to wait to time out.
6396 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
6397 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
6398 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
6399 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
6400 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
6401 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
6402 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
6403 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
6404 i'd still like to find the bug though.
6405 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
6407 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
6411 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
6412 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
6413 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
6414 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
6415 he retries a couple of times
6416 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
6417 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
6418 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
6419 too long (they were sticking around forever).
6420 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
6424 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
6425 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
6426 - make hup work again
6427 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
6428 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
6429 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
6430 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
6431 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
6432 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
6434 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
6435 o changes from 0.0.5:
6436 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
6437 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
6438 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
6439 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
6440 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
6442 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
6443 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
6444 in-memory directories too
6447 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
6448 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
6451 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
6453 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
6454 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
6455 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
6456 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
6459 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
6463 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
6464 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
6466 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
6467 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
6468 but that aren't warnings
6471 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
6472 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
6473 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
6474 the dns farm to do it.
6475 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
6476 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
6478 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
6479 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
6480 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
6483 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
6484 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
6485 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
6486 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
6487 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
6488 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
6489 expect it to have a nickname.
6490 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
6491 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
6494 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
6495 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
6499 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
6500 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
6501 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
6502 - include missing header fcntl.h
6503 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
6504 - deal with hardware word alignment
6505 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
6506 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
6507 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
6508 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
6509 by kill -USR1 currently.
6510 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
6511 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
6512 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
6515 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
6516 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
6517 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
6520 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
6522 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
6523 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
6524 - And fix a few endian issues.
6527 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
6529 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
6530 try that circuit again: try a new one.
6531 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
6532 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
6533 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
6534 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
6535 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
6536 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
6538 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
6539 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
6540 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
6542 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
6544 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
6545 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
6546 side isn't reading right then.
6547 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
6549 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
6550 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
6551 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
6554 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
6556 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
6557 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
6560 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
6564 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
6566 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
6567 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
6568 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
6569 connection is finished.
6570 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
6571 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
6572 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
6573 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
6574 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
6575 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
6576 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
6577 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
6578 rather than warn and continue.
6579 - Make --version work
6580 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
6583 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
6585 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
6587 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
6588 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
6590 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
6591 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
6592 so you can collect coredumps there.
6594 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
6595 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
6596 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
6597 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
6598 dns cache actually gets populated.
6599 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
6600 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
6601 end cell down it first.
6602 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
6603 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
6606 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
6608 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
6609 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
6611 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
6612 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
6613 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
6614 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
6615 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
6616 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
6618 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
6620 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
6621 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
6622 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
6623 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
6624 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
6625 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
6627 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
6628 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
6631 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
6633 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
6634 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
6635 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
6636 tor. It even has a man page.
6637 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
6638 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
6639 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
6640 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
6642 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
6644 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
6647 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
6649 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
6651 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
6652 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
6653 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
6654 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
6655 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
6656 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
6657 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
6658 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
6659 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
6660 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
6661 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
6663 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
6664 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
6667 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
6669 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
6670 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
6673 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
6675 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
6676 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
6677 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
6678 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
6679 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
6680 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
6681 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
6682 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
6683 logfile so you know it's working.
6684 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
6685 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
6688 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
6690 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
6691 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
6692 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
6695 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
6697 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
6698 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
6699 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
6702 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
6703 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
6704 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
6706 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
6707 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
6709 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
6710 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
6711 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
6713 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
6714 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
6718 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
6720 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
6721 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
6722 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
6725 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
6726 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
6727 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
6728 - Add port ranges to exit policies
6729 - Add a conservative default exit policy
6730 - Warn if you're running tor as root
6731 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
6732 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
6733 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
6734 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
6736 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
6739 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
6740 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6741 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
6742 really screw things up.
6743 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
6745 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
6746 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
6748 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
6749 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
6750 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
6751 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
6752 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
6753 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
6756 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
6759 - Change default loglevel to warn.
6760 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
6761 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
6763 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
6766 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
6767 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6768 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
6769 - to get ownership/permissions right
6770 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
6771 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
6772 pull down a directory again
6773 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
6774 causing server crashes
6775 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
6776 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
6777 - exit if bind() fails
6778 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
6779 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
6780 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
6781 - fix minor bias in PRNG
6782 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
6785 - Wrote the design document (woo)
6787 o Circuit building and exit policies:
6788 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
6790 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
6791 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
6792 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
6793 exists, rather than failing
6794 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
6795 which AP connections are standing by
6796 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
6797 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
6798 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
6800 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
6801 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
6804 - APPort is now called SocksPort
6805 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
6807 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
6808 hardcoded (for dirservers)
6809 - Reloads config on HUP
6810 - Usage info on -h or --help
6811 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
6814 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
6815 o General stability:
6816 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
6817 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
6818 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
6819 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
6820 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
6821 to take down the network when I approve a new router
6822 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
6825 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
6826 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
6828 o Autoconf improvements:
6829 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
6830 - Make install now works
6831 - create var/lib/tor on make install
6832 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
6833 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
6835 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
6836 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
6837 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
6838 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup