1 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
2 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
3 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
4 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
5 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
7 o Major features (security, Linux):
8 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
9 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
10 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
11 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
12 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
14 o Major features (directory system):
15 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
17 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
18 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
19 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
21 "mikeperry" and "teor".
22 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
23 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
24 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
25 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by "teor".
26 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
27 "gsathya", and "karsten".
28 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
29 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
30 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
31 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
32 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
36 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
37 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
40 o Minor features (security, clock):
41 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
42 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
43 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
44 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
46 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
47 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
48 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
49 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
50 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
51 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
53 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
54 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
55 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
56 Implements ticket 17026.
57 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
58 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
59 Implements feature 17986.
60 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
61 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
62 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
63 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
64 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
65 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
68 o Minor features (security, RNG):
69 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
70 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
71 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
72 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
73 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
74 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
75 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
76 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
77 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
78 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
81 o Minor features (accounting):
82 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
83 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
84 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
85 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
87 o Minor features (build):
88 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
89 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
90 patch from "cypherpunks."
91 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
92 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
93 17549, 17921, and 17984.
95 o Minor features (controller):
96 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
97 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
98 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
99 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
100 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
101 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
102 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
103 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
106 o Minor features (crypto):
107 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
109 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
110 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
111 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
112 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
113 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
114 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
115 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
116 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
118 o Minor features (directory downloads):
119 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
120 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
121 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
122 17864; patch by "teor".
123 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
124 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
125 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
127 o Minor features (geoip):
128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
131 o Minor features (IPv6):
132 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
133 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
134 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
135 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
136 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
137 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
138 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
139 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
140 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
141 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
142 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
144 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
145 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
146 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
147 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
149 o Minor features (logging):
150 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
151 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
152 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
153 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
156 o Minor features (portability):
157 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
158 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
160 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
161 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
162 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
163 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
164 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
166 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
167 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
168 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
169 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
170 Resolves ticket 17951.
172 o Minor features (replay cache):
173 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
174 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
176 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
177 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
178 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
179 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
180 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
181 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
182 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
183 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
184 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
185 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
186 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
187 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
188 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
189 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
191 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
192 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
193 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
196 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
197 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
198 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
199 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
200 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
201 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
202 on tor-0.1.1.1-alpha.
203 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
207 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
208 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
209 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
210 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
211 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
212 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
213 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
214 on tor-0.2.5.2-alpha.
215 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
216 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
217 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
218 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
219 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
220 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
221 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on tor-0.2.7.3-rc.
222 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
224 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
225 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
227 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
228 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
229 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
231 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
232 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
233 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
234 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
236 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
237 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
238 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
240 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
241 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
242 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-alpha.
244 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
245 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
246 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
247 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
248 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
250 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
251 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
253 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
254 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
255 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
258 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
259 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
260 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
261 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
262 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
263 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
265 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
266 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
267 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
268 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
269 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
271 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
272 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
273 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
276 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
277 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
278 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
279 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
280 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
281 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
282 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
283 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
286 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
287 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
288 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
289 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
290 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
291 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
292 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
293 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
294 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
295 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
297 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
298 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
300 o Code simplification and refactoring:
301 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
302 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
303 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
304 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
305 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
306 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
307 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
308 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
309 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
311 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
312 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
313 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
314 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
316 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
317 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
318 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
319 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
320 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
322 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
323 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
326 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
327 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
328 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
329 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
330 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
331 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
332 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
336 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
337 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
338 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
339 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
340 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
343 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
344 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
345 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
346 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
347 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
348 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
349 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
350 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
351 portion of ticket 16831.
352 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
353 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
354 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
356 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
357 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
360 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
361 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
362 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
364 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
365 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
366 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
367 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
368 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
369 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
372 o Minor features (geoip):
373 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
376 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
377 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
378 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
379 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
380 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
381 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
383 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
384 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
385 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
386 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
387 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
388 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
389 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
390 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
391 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
392 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
395 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
396 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
397 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
398 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
399 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
400 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
401 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
402 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
403 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
404 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
405 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
406 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
407 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
408 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
409 that would make him proud.
411 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
413 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
414 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
415 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
416 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
417 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
418 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
419 of Tor invoke which others.
421 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
424 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
425 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
426 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
427 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
428 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
429 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
430 release will the the official stable release.
432 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
433 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
434 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
435 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
436 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
439 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
440 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
441 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
443 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
444 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
445 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
446 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
447 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
448 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
449 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
451 o Minor features (geoIP):
452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
455 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
456 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
457 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
458 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
459 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
460 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
461 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
463 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
464 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
465 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
468 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
469 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
470 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
471 bugfix on tor-0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
473 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
474 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
475 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
476 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
477 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
478 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
479 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
480 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
481 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
482 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
483 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
487 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
488 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
492 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
493 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
494 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
495 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
496 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
498 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
499 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
500 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
501 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
503 o Major features (security, hidden services):
504 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
505 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
506 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
507 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
508 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
509 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
510 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
512 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
513 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
514 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
515 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
516 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
517 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
520 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
521 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
522 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
523 available. Implements ticket 16535.
524 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
525 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
528 o Major features (performance testing):
529 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
530 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
531 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
533 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
534 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
535 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
536 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
538 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
539 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
540 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
541 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
542 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
543 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
545 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
546 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
548 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
549 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
550 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
551 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
552 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
554 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
555 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
556 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
557 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
558 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
559 own. Implements feature 15482.
560 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
561 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
563 o Minor features (compilation):
564 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
565 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
566 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
567 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
568 which started requiring ECC.
570 o Minor features (geoip):
571 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
574 o Minor features (hidden services):
575 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
576 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
577 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
578 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
579 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
580 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
581 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
582 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
584 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
585 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
586 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
589 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
590 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
591 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
592 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
594 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
595 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
596 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
597 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
598 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
600 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
601 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
602 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
603 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
604 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
605 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
606 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
607 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
608 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
609 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
610 Related to ticket 16069.
611 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
612 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
613 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
614 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
615 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
616 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
618 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
619 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
620 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
621 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
622 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
624 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
625 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
626 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
628 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
629 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
630 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
631 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
633 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
634 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
635 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
636 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
637 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
639 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
640 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
641 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
642 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
643 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
644 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
645 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
646 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
647 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
648 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
649 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
652 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
653 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
654 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
656 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
657 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
658 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
659 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
660 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
662 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
663 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
664 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
665 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
667 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
668 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
669 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
671 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
672 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
673 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
674 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
675 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
676 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
677 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
678 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
680 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
681 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
682 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
683 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
684 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
686 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
687 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
690 o Code simplification and refactoring:
691 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
692 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
693 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
694 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
695 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
696 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
697 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
698 function. Closes ticket 16763.
699 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
700 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
701 suite of other microdesc functions.
702 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
703 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
704 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
705 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
706 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
707 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
708 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
709 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
710 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
711 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
713 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
714 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
716 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
719 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
720 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
721 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
722 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
726 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
727 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
728 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
729 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
730 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
732 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
733 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
734 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
735 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
736 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
737 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
740 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
741 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
742 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
743 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
744 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
745 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
746 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
748 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
749 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
750 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
751 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
752 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
753 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
754 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
755 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
756 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
757 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
758 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
759 network before we begin.
760 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
761 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
762 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
763 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
764 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
765 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
766 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
767 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
770 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
771 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
772 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
773 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
774 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
775 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
777 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
778 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
779 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
781 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
782 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
783 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
784 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
785 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
786 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
787 Implements part of ticket 12498.
788 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
789 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
790 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
791 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
792 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
793 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
794 part of ticket 12498.
795 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
796 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
797 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
798 key). Closes ticket 13642.
800 o Major features (Hidden services):
801 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
802 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
803 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
804 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
805 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
807 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
808 introduction points, which used to change the number of
809 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
810 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
812 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
813 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
814 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
815 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
816 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
817 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
819 o Major features (performance):
820 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
821 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
822 Implements ticket 16467.
823 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
824 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
825 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
826 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
828 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
829 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
830 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
831 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
832 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
833 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
835 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
836 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
837 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
838 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
839 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
840 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
841 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
842 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
845 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
846 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
847 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
848 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
849 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
850 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
851 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
854 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
855 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
856 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
857 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
858 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
859 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
861 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
862 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
863 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
864 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
865 by "cypherpunks_backup".
866 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
867 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
868 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
871 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
872 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
873 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
874 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
875 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
876 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
877 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
879 o Minor features (client):
880 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
881 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
882 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
884 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
885 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
886 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
887 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
888 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
889 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
890 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
893 o Minor features (control protocol):
894 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
895 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
897 o Minor features (directory authorities):
898 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
899 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
900 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
901 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
902 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
904 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
905 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
906 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
908 o Minor features (hidden services):
909 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
910 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
911 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
912 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
915 o Minor features (portability):
916 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
917 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
918 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
921 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
922 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
923 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
925 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
926 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
927 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
928 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
930 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
931 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
932 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
933 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
934 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
935 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
938 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
939 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
940 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
941 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
942 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
943 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
945 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
946 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
947 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
949 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
950 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
951 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
952 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
954 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
955 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
956 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
957 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
959 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
960 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
963 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
964 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
965 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
968 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
969 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
970 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
971 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
972 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
973 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
975 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
976 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
977 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
979 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
980 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
981 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
983 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
984 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
985 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
986 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
987 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
988 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
989 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
990 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
991 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
993 o Code simplification and refactoring:
994 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
995 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
996 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
997 haven't supported that in ages.
998 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
999 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
1000 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
1001 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
1004 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
1005 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
1006 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
1007 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
1008 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
1009 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
1012 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
1013 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
1014 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
1015 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
1016 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
1017 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
1018 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
1019 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
1020 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
1021 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
1022 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
1023 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
1024 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
1025 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
1026 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
1027 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
1028 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
1031 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
1032 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
1033 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
1034 Closes ticket 15817.
1035 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
1036 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
1038 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
1039 default as a part of "make check".
1040 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
1041 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
1042 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
1043 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
1047 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
1048 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
1049 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
1050 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
1051 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
1052 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
1054 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
1055 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
1056 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
1057 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
1058 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
1059 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
1060 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
1061 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
1064 o Major bugfixes (stability):
1065 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
1066 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
1067 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
1068 by "cypherpunks_backup".
1069 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
1070 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
1071 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
1074 o Minor features (geoip):
1075 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1076 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1078 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
1079 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
1080 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
1081 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
1082 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
1083 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
1085 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1086 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
1087 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
1088 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
1091 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
1092 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
1093 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
1094 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
1095 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
1097 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
1098 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
1099 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
1100 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
1101 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
1104 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
1105 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
1106 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
1107 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
1108 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
1109 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
1110 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1113 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
1114 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
1115 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
1117 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1118 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
1119 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
1120 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
1121 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
1122 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
1125 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1126 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
1127 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1130 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
1131 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
1132 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
1133 authorities should upgrade.
1135 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
1136 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
1137 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
1138 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
1139 on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
1141 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
1142 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
1143 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
1146 o Minor features (geoip):
1147 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1148 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1152 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
1153 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
1154 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
1155 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
1156 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
1157 the hidden services subsystem.
1159 o New system requirements:
1160 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
1161 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
1164 o Major features (controller):
1165 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
1166 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
1168 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
1169 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
1170 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
1171 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
1172 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
1173 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
1174 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
1176 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1177 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
1178 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
1179 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
1180 on tor-0.2.6.3-alpha.
1182 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
1183 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
1184 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
1185 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
1186 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
1188 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1189 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
1190 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1191 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
1192 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
1194 o Minor features (controller):
1195 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
1196 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
1197 present. Implements ticket 14840.
1198 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
1199 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
1200 Closes ticket 14845.
1201 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
1202 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
1203 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
1205 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
1206 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
1207 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
1208 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
1210 o Minor features (geoip):
1211 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1212 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1215 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
1216 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
1217 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
1218 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
1219 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
1220 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
1221 Closes ticket 15745.
1223 o Minor features (logging):
1224 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
1225 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
1228 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1229 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
1230 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
1231 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
1233 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
1234 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
1235 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
1236 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
1237 Resolves ticket 15435.
1239 o Minor features (testing):
1240 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
1241 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
1242 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
1243 files. Closes ticket 15180.
1244 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
1245 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
1246 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
1247 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
1248 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
1249 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
1250 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
1251 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
1252 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
1253 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
1254 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
1255 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
1257 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1258 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
1259 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
1262 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
1263 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
1264 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
1266 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
1269 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
1270 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
1271 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
1272 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
1273 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
1274 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
1275 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
1276 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1278 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1279 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
1280 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
1282 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
1283 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
1284 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
1287 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
1288 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
1289 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
1291 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
1292 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1294 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
1295 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
1296 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
1297 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
1300 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
1301 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
1302 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
1303 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
1304 recent enough Clang.
1306 o Minor bugfixes (network):
1307 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
1308 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
1309 unsuitable for public communications.
1311 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1312 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
1313 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
1314 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
1315 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
1316 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
1319 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
1320 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
1321 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
1322 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
1323 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
1324 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
1325 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1328 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
1329 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
1331 - Set the severity correctly when testing
1332 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
1333 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
1334 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
1335 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
1337 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1338 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
1339 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
1341 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
1342 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
1343 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
1344 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
1345 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
1348 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
1349 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
1351 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
1352 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1353 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
1354 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
1355 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
1358 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
1359 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
1360 has been part of tor since tor-0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
1361 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
1362 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
1363 Closes ticket 14922.
1366 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
1367 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
1368 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
1369 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
1370 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
1371 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
1372 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
1373 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
1374 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
1375 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
1376 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
1379 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
1380 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
1381 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
1382 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
1383 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1385 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
1386 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1388 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1389 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1390 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1391 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1392 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1393 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1394 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1396 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1397 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1398 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1399 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1400 Resolves ticket 15515.
1403 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
1404 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
1405 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
1406 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
1407 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1409 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
1410 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1412 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1413 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1414 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1415 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1416 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1417 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1418 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1420 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1421 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1422 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1423 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1424 Resolves ticket 15515.
1427 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
1428 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
1429 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
1430 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
1431 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1433 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
1434 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1436 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1437 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1438 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1439 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1440 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1441 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1442 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1444 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1445 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1446 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1447 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1448 Resolves ticket 15515.
1449 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
1450 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
1451 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
1455 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
1456 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
1458 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
1459 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
1460 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
1461 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
1462 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
1463 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
1464 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
1465 bugs should be addressed.
1467 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1468 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
1469 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
1470 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1472 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
1473 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
1474 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
1476 o Major bugfixes (client):
1477 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
1478 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
1481 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1482 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
1483 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
1484 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
1485 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
1486 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1488 o Major bugfixes (portability):
1489 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
1490 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
1493 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1494 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
1495 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
1496 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
1497 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
1499 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1500 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
1501 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
1504 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
1505 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1507 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
1508 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
1509 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
1511 o Directory authority changes:
1512 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1513 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1514 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1515 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1516 closes ticket 14487.
1518 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
1519 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
1520 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
1523 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
1524 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1525 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
1526 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1527 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
1528 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1529 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1530 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1532 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
1533 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1534 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1535 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1537 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1538 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
1539 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
1540 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
1542 o Minor features (controller):
1543 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
1544 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
1545 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
1547 o Minor features (geoip):
1548 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1549 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1552 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
1553 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
1554 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
1555 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1556 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
1557 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1560 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
1561 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
1562 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
1564 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1565 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
1566 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
1567 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
1568 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1569 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
1570 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
1571 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1574 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
1575 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1577 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
1578 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
1579 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
1580 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
1581 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
1585 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
1586 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
1587 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
1590 o Directory authority changes:
1591 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1592 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1593 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1594 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1595 closes ticket 14487.
1597 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
1598 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1599 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1600 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1602 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
1603 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1604 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
1605 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1606 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
1607 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1608 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1609 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1611 o Minor features (geoip):
1612 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1613 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1616 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
1617 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
1618 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
1619 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
1620 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
1622 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
1623 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
1624 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
1627 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
1628 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1629 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
1630 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1631 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1632 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1633 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1634 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1636 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
1637 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
1638 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
1641 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1642 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
1643 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
1645 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
1646 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1647 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
1648 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
1649 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
1651 o Minor features (controller):
1652 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
1653 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
1654 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
1656 o Minor features (geoip):
1657 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1658 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1661 o Minor features (logs):
1662 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
1665 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
1666 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
1667 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
1668 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1669 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
1670 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
1671 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
1672 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
1673 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1676 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
1678 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
1681 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1682 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
1683 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
1685 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
1686 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
1687 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
1688 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
1690 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
1691 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
1694 o Directory authority IP change:
1695 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1696 closes ticket 14487.
1699 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
1700 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
1701 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
1705 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
1706 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
1707 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
1708 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
1709 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
1710 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
1712 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
1713 the next version will be a release candidate.
1715 o Deprecated versions:
1716 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
1717 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
1719 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
1720 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
1721 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
1722 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
1723 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
1724 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
1726 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
1727 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
1728 Implements ticket 11485.
1730 o Major features (changed defaults):
1731 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
1732 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
1733 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
1734 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
1735 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
1736 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
1738 o Major features (directory system):
1739 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
1740 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
1741 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
1742 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
1743 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
1744 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
1745 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
1746 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
1747 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
1748 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
1749 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
1750 227. Closes ticket 10395.
1752 o Major features (guards):
1753 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
1754 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
1755 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
1756 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
1757 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
1759 o Major features (performance):
1760 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
1761 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
1762 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
1763 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
1764 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
1765 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
1766 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
1767 Implements ticket 9682.
1769 o Major features (relay):
1770 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
1771 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
1772 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
1774 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
1775 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1776 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1777 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1779 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
1780 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
1781 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
1782 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
1783 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
1784 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
1785 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
1787 o Minor features (build):
1788 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
1789 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
1790 Resolves ticket 13037.
1792 o Minor features (controller):
1793 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
1794 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
1796 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
1797 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
1798 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
1799 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
1800 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
1801 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
1803 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
1804 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
1805 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
1806 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
1807 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
1808 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
1809 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
1810 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
1811 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
1812 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
1814 o Minor features (geoip):
1815 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
1816 GeoLite2 Country database.
1818 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1819 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
1820 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
1821 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
1823 o Minor features (hidden service):
1824 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
1825 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
1826 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
1827 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
1828 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
1829 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
1830 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
1831 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
1833 o Minor features (interface):
1834 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
1835 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
1836 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
1838 o Minor features (logging):
1839 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
1840 Resolves ticket 6852.
1841 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
1842 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
1843 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
1845 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
1846 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
1848 o Minor features (stability):
1849 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
1850 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
1853 o Minor features (systemd):
1854 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
1855 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
1857 o Minor features (testing networks):
1858 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
1859 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
1860 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
1861 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
1862 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
1863 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
1865 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
1866 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
1867 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
1868 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
1869 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
1871 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
1872 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
1873 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
1874 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
1875 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
1877 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
1878 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
1879 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
1880 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
1881 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
1882 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
1883 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
1884 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1886 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
1887 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
1888 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
1889 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1890 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
1891 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1892 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
1893 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
1895 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
1896 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
1897 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
1900 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
1901 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
1902 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
1903 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
1904 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
1906 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
1907 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
1908 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
1909 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
1910 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1912 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1913 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
1914 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
1915 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
1916 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
1917 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
1918 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
1919 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
1920 Addresses ticket 14188.
1921 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
1922 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
1923 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
1924 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
1925 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
1926 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
1927 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
1928 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
1929 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1931 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1932 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
1933 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
1934 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1935 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
1936 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1937 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
1938 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1940 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1941 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
1942 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
1943 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
1944 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1945 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
1946 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
1947 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1948 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
1949 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1950 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
1951 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
1952 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1954 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
1955 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
1956 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
1957 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
1958 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
1959 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1960 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
1961 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
1962 state, and key files.
1963 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
1964 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
1967 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1968 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
1969 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
1970 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
1971 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1972 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
1973 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
1974 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1975 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
1976 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
1977 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1979 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1980 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
1981 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1982 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
1984 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
1985 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1987 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
1988 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
1989 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
1990 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
1991 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
1992 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1994 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
1995 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
1996 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
1997 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1998 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
1999 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
2000 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2001 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
2002 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
2003 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2005 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2006 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
2007 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
2009 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
2010 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
2012 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
2013 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
2014 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
2015 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
2016 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2018 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
2019 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
2020 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
2021 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
2024 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
2025 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
2026 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
2029 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2030 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
2031 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2033 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
2034 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
2035 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
2036 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
2037 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
2038 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
2039 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
2041 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
2042 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
2045 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
2046 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
2047 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
2049 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
2050 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
2051 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
2054 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2055 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
2056 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
2057 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
2058 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
2059 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
2060 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
2061 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
2062 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
2064 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
2065 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
2067 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
2071 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
2072 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
2073 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
2074 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
2075 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
2076 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
2078 o Downgraded warnings:
2079 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
2080 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
2083 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
2084 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
2085 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
2086 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
2087 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
2091 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
2092 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2093 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
2094 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
2095 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
2096 (existing behavior).
2097 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
2098 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
2099 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
2100 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
2101 Closes ticket 14107.
2102 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
2103 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2104 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
2105 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
2107 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
2108 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
2109 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2112 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
2113 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
2114 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
2115 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
2116 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
2117 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
2119 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
2120 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
2121 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
2122 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
2124 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
2125 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
2126 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
2127 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
2128 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
2129 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
2131 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
2132 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
2133 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
2134 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
2135 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
2136 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
2137 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
2140 o Major features (hidden services):
2141 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
2142 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
2143 Closes ticket 13667.
2144 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
2145 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
2146 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
2147 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
2148 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
2149 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
2150 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
2151 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
2152 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
2153 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
2154 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
2156 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
2157 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
2158 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
2159 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
2160 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
2161 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
2164 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2165 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
2166 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
2167 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
2168 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
2169 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
2171 o Directory authority changes:
2172 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
2173 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
2174 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
2176 o Major removed features:
2177 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
2178 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
2179 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
2180 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
2182 o Minor features (client):
2183 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
2184 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
2185 Resolves ticket 13315.
2187 o Minor features (controller):
2188 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
2189 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
2192 o Minor features (geoip):
2193 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2196 o Minor features (hidden services):
2197 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
2198 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
2199 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
2200 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
2201 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
2202 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
2204 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
2205 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
2206 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
2208 o Minor features (systemd):
2209 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
2210 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
2211 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
2212 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
2214 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
2215 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
2216 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
2217 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
2218 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
2221 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
2222 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
2223 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
2224 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
2225 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
2227 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
2228 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
2229 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
2232 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
2233 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
2234 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
2235 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
2236 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
2238 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
2239 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
2240 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2242 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2243 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
2244 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
2245 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
2246 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
2248 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
2249 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
2252 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2253 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
2254 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
2255 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
2256 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
2257 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2258 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
2259 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
2260 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2261 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
2262 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
2263 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
2264 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
2265 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
2268 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2269 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
2270 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
2271 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
2272 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
2273 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
2275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2276 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
2277 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
2278 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
2280 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
2281 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2284 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
2285 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
2286 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
2289 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
2290 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
2291 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
2292 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
2293 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
2294 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
2296 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
2297 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
2298 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
2299 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
2300 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2301 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
2302 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
2303 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
2304 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
2305 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
2306 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
2307 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
2308 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
2309 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
2310 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
2311 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
2312 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
2313 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
2314 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
2315 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2316 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
2317 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
2318 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
2319 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
2320 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
2321 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
2322 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
2323 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2324 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
2325 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
2326 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
2327 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
2329 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
2330 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
2331 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
2332 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
2333 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2335 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2336 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
2337 with a function instead.
2338 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
2339 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
2340 Closes ticket 13172.
2341 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
2342 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
2343 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
2344 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
2345 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
2346 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
2347 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
2348 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
2349 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
2350 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
2351 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
2352 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
2356 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
2357 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
2358 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
2359 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
2360 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
2361 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
2362 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
2363 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
2364 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
2365 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
2366 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
2367 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
2370 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
2371 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
2372 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
2373 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
2374 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
2375 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
2377 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
2381 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
2382 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
2383 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
2384 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
2385 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
2386 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
2387 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
2388 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
2389 of introducing infinite download loops.
2391 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
2392 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
2393 with 0.2.5.x for now.
2395 o New compiler and system requirements:
2396 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
2397 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
2398 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
2399 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
2401 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
2402 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
2403 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
2404 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
2405 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
2406 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
2407 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
2408 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
2409 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
2411 o Removed platform support:
2412 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
2413 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
2414 Closes ticket 11446.
2416 o Major features (bridges):
2417 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
2418 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
2419 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
2422 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
2423 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
2424 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
2425 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
2428 o Major features (directory system):
2429 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
2430 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
2431 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
2432 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
2434 o Major features (sample torrc):
2435 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
2436 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
2437 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
2438 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
2439 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
2440 generally useful "sample torrc".
2442 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
2443 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
2444 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2446 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
2447 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
2448 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
2449 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
2450 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2452 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
2453 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
2454 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
2455 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
2457 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
2458 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
2459 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
2460 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
2461 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
2462 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
2465 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
2466 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
2467 document. Implements feature 10427.
2469 o Minor features (client):
2470 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
2471 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
2472 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
2473 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
2475 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2476 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
2477 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
2478 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
2479 argument more than once.
2480 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
2481 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
2482 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
2483 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
2484 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
2485 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
2487 o Minor features (logging):
2488 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
2489 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
2490 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
2491 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
2492 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
2493 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
2494 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
2495 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
2496 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
2498 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
2499 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
2500 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
2501 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
2503 o Minor features (relay):
2504 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
2505 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
2506 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
2508 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
2509 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
2510 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
2511 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
2513 o Minor features (testing networks):
2514 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
2515 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
2516 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
2517 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
2518 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
2521 o Minor features (validation):
2522 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
2523 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
2524 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
2525 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
2526 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
2527 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
2528 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
2529 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
2531 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
2532 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
2533 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
2534 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2536 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2537 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
2538 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
2539 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2541 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2542 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
2543 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
2545 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
2546 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
2547 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
2549 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
2550 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2551 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
2552 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
2553 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2554 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
2555 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2557 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2558 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
2559 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
2560 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2561 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
2562 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2563 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
2564 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
2565 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
2567 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
2568 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
2569 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
2570 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
2571 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
2573 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
2574 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
2575 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
2577 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2578 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
2579 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
2580 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
2581 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
2583 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
2584 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
2585 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
2586 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2587 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
2588 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
2589 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2590 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
2591 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
2592 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
2593 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
2596 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2597 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
2598 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
2599 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
2600 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2602 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2603 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
2604 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2605 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
2606 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
2609 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
2610 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
2611 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2612 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
2613 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
2614 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2616 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2617 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
2618 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
2619 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2621 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
2622 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
2623 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
2624 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2626 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2627 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
2628 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
2629 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
2632 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
2633 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
2634 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2637 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
2638 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2639 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
2640 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
2641 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
2644 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2645 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
2646 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
2648 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
2649 Resolves ticket 12205.
2650 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
2651 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
2652 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
2653 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
2655 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
2656 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
2657 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
2659 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
2660 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
2662 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
2663 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
2664 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
2665 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
2666 or_options_t structure.
2669 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
2670 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
2671 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
2672 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
2676 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
2677 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
2678 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
2679 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
2680 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
2681 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
2682 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
2683 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
2684 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
2686 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
2687 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
2689 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
2690 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
2691 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
2692 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
2693 anymore, and ignore it.
2696 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
2697 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
2698 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
2699 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
2700 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
2701 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
2702 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
2703 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
2704 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
2705 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
2706 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
2707 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
2709 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
2710 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
2711 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
2713 o Distribution (systemd):
2714 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
2715 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
2716 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
2717 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
2718 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
2720 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
2721 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
2723 o Removed features (directory authorities):
2724 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
2725 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
2726 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
2727 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
2728 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
2729 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
2730 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
2731 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
2732 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
2734 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
2735 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
2736 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
2737 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
2740 o Testing (test-network.sh):
2741 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
2742 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
2744 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
2746 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
2747 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
2748 Partially implements ticket 13161.
2751 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
2752 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
2754 It adds several new security features, including improved
2755 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
2756 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
2757 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
2758 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
2759 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
2760 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
2761 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
2762 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
2763 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
2764 and features mentioned below.
2766 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
2767 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
2769 o Deprecated versions:
2770 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2771 attention for some while.
2774 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
2775 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
2776 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
2777 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
2778 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
2779 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
2781 o Major security fixes:
2782 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
2783 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
2784 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
2786 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
2787 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
2788 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
2789 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
2792 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
2793 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
2794 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
2795 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2797 o Compilation fixes:
2798 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
2799 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
2800 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
2802 o Downgraded warnings:
2803 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
2804 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
2807 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
2808 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
2809 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
2810 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
2811 (which does affect Tor).
2813 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
2814 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
2815 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
2816 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
2818 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
2819 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
2820 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
2821 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
2824 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
2825 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
2826 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
2827 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
2828 the directory authorities.
2831 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
2832 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
2833 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
2834 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
2835 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
2836 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
2837 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
2838 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
2839 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
2840 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
2841 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
2842 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2844 o Directory authority changes:
2845 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2848 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
2849 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
2850 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
2851 the directory authorities.
2854 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
2855 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
2856 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
2857 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
2858 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
2859 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
2860 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
2861 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
2862 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
2863 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
2864 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
2865 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2867 o Directory authority changes:
2868 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
2870 o Minor features (geoip):
2871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2875 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
2876 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
2877 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
2878 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
2879 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
2881 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
2882 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
2883 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
2884 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
2885 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
2886 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
2887 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2888 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
2889 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
2890 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
2891 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
2892 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
2893 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
2894 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2895 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
2896 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
2898 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2899 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
2900 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2901 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2902 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
2903 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
2904 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
2905 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2907 o Minor features (bridge):
2908 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
2909 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
2911 o Minor features (geoip):
2912 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2915 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2916 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
2917 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
2918 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
2919 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
2920 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
2921 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2922 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
2923 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
2924 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
2925 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
2926 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
2927 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
2928 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
2929 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
2931 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
2932 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
2933 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
2934 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
2935 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
2937 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2938 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
2939 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2940 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
2941 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
2944 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2945 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
2946 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
2947 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
2948 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
2949 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
2950 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
2951 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2952 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
2953 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
2954 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
2957 o Distribution (systemd):
2958 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
2959 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
2960 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
2961 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
2962 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
2963 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
2964 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
2965 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
2966 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
2970 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
2971 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
2973 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
2977 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
2978 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
2979 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
2980 us closer to a release candidate.
2982 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
2983 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
2984 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
2985 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
2986 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
2988 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
2989 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
2990 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
2991 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
2992 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
2993 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
2994 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
2995 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
2996 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
3000 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
3001 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
3002 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
3003 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
3004 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
3005 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
3006 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
3010 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
3011 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
3012 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
3013 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
3014 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
3015 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
3016 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
3017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3019 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
3021 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
3022 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
3023 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
3024 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
3025 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
3026 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
3027 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
3028 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
3029 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
3030 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3033 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
3034 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
3035 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
3036 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
3038 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
3039 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
3040 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
3043 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
3044 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
3045 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
3046 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
3049 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
3050 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
3051 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
3052 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
3053 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
3054 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
3055 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
3056 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
3057 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
3058 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
3061 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
3062 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
3063 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
3064 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
3065 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
3066 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
3067 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
3068 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
3072 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
3073 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
3074 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
3075 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
3076 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
3077 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
3078 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
3079 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
3080 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3081 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
3082 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
3083 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
3084 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
3087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3091 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
3092 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
3093 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
3094 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
3095 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
3096 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
3099 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
3100 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
3101 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
3102 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
3103 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
3104 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
3105 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
3106 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
3107 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
3108 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
3109 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
3110 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
3111 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3113 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
3114 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
3115 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
3116 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
3119 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
3120 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
3121 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
3123 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
3124 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
3125 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
3126 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
3127 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
3128 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
3129 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
3130 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
3131 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
3132 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
3133 router's identity is not forgeable.
3135 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3136 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
3137 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
3138 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
3139 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3140 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
3141 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
3142 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
3143 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
3144 bugfix on every version of Tor.
3146 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
3147 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
3148 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
3149 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
3152 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3153 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
3154 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
3155 help diagnose bug 7164.
3156 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
3157 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
3158 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
3159 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
3160 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
3162 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
3163 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
3164 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
3165 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
3166 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
3167 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
3168 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
3170 o Minor features (security, memory management):
3171 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
3172 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
3173 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
3174 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
3175 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
3176 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
3178 o Minor features (security):
3179 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
3180 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
3181 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
3182 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
3184 o Minor features (build):
3185 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
3186 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
3187 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
3189 o Minor features (other):
3190 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3193 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
3194 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
3195 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
3196 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
3197 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3199 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3200 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
3201 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
3202 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
3203 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
3204 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
3205 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
3206 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
3207 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
3208 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
3209 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
3210 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
3212 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3213 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
3214 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3215 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
3216 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
3217 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
3218 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
3219 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
3220 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
3221 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
3222 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3223 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
3224 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
3225 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
3226 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
3227 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
3228 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
3229 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
3232 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
3233 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
3234 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
3235 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
3236 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
3237 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
3238 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3240 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
3241 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
3242 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3243 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
3244 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3245 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
3246 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3247 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
3248 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
3250 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
3251 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
3253 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
3254 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
3256 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
3257 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
3258 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3259 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
3260 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
3261 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3262 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
3263 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
3264 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
3266 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
3267 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
3268 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
3269 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
3270 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
3271 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3272 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
3273 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
3274 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3275 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
3276 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
3277 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3278 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
3279 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
3280 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
3281 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
3282 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
3283 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3285 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3286 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
3287 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
3288 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
3289 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
3290 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3291 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
3292 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
3293 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
3296 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3297 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
3298 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
3299 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
3300 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3302 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3303 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
3304 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
3305 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
3307 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
3308 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
3309 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
3310 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3311 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
3312 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
3313 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
3314 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
3316 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
3317 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
3318 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
3319 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
3322 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
3323 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
3324 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
3325 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
3326 versions. Found by "skruffy".
3327 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
3328 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
3329 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
3332 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
3333 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
3334 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
3335 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
3338 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
3339 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
3340 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
3341 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
3343 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
3344 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
3345 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
3347 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
3348 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
3349 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3351 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3352 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
3353 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3354 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
3355 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
3359 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
3360 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
3361 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
3362 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
3365 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
3366 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
3367 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
3368 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
3370 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
3371 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
3373 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
3374 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
3375 caches don't get confused.
3378 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
3379 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
3380 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
3381 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
3382 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
3385 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
3386 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
3387 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
3388 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
3389 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
3390 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
3394 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
3395 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
3396 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
3397 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
3398 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
3399 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
3400 of RAM, and several others.
3402 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3403 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
3404 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
3405 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
3406 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
3408 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
3409 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
3410 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
3411 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
3414 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3415 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
3416 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
3417 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
3418 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
3419 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
3420 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3421 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
3422 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
3423 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
3424 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
3425 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
3426 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
3427 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
3428 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
3429 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
3430 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
3431 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
3432 Resolves ticket 11438.
3434 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
3435 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
3436 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
3437 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
3438 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
3439 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3441 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3442 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
3443 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3445 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3446 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
3447 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3449 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3450 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
3451 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
3452 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3454 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3455 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
3456 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
3458 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3459 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
3460 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3463 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
3464 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
3465 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
3466 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
3469 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3470 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
3471 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
3472 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
3474 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3475 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
3476 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
3477 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3479 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3480 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
3481 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
3485 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
3486 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
3487 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
3488 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
3489 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
3490 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
3491 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
3492 the Linux sandbox code.
3494 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
3495 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
3496 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
3498 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
3499 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
3501 o Major features (security):
3502 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
3503 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
3504 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
3505 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
3506 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
3507 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
3508 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
3509 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
3511 o Major features (relay performance):
3512 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
3513 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
3514 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
3515 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
3516 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
3517 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
3518 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
3519 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
3520 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
3521 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
3523 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
3524 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
3525 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
3526 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
3527 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
3528 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
3529 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
3531 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
3532 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
3534 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
3535 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
3536 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
3537 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
3538 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
3539 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
3540 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3541 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
3542 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
3543 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
3544 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
3545 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
3546 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
3547 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
3548 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
3549 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
3550 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
3551 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
3552 Resolves ticket 11438.
3554 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
3555 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
3556 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
3557 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3559 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
3560 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
3561 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
3562 10267; patch from "yurivict".
3563 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
3564 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
3565 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
3566 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
3567 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
3568 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
3570 o Minor features (security):
3571 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
3572 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
3573 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
3574 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
3577 o Minor features (log verbosity):
3578 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
3579 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
3580 Resolves ticket 5286.
3581 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
3582 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
3583 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
3584 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
3585 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
3586 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
3587 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
3588 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
3589 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
3591 o Minor features (relay):
3592 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
3593 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
3594 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
3596 o Minor features (controller):
3597 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
3598 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
3600 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
3601 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
3602 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
3604 o Minor features (bridge client):
3605 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
3606 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
3607 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
3609 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3610 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
3611 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
3612 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
3613 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
3614 still referenced by a live node_t object.
3616 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
3617 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
3618 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
3619 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
3621 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
3622 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
3623 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
3624 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
3627 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
3628 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
3629 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3631 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
3632 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
3633 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
3634 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3635 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
3636 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
3637 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3639 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
3640 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
3641 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
3642 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3643 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
3644 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
3645 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3646 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
3647 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
3648 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
3649 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3650 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
3651 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
3654 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
3655 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
3656 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
3657 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
3658 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
3660 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
3661 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
3662 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
3665 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3666 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
3667 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3669 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
3670 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
3671 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3673 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3674 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
3675 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
3676 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3678 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
3679 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
3680 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3681 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
3682 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
3684 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
3685 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
3686 early. Fixes bug 10081.
3688 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
3689 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
3690 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3691 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
3692 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3693 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
3694 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
3695 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
3697 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
3698 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
3699 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
3700 should never have affected anyone in practice.
3702 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3703 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
3704 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3706 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
3707 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
3708 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
3709 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
3710 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
3711 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
3712 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
3713 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
3714 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
3715 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
3716 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
3717 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
3718 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
3719 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
3721 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
3722 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
3723 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
3724 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
3725 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
3726 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
3727 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
3728 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
3732 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
3733 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
3734 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
3735 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3736 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
3737 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3738 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
3739 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
3741 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
3743 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3744 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
3745 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
3746 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
3747 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
3750 o Deprecated versions:
3751 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
3752 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
3753 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
3754 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
3757 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
3758 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
3759 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
3760 Patch from Dana Koch.
3763 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
3764 Resolves ticket 11070.
3767 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
3768 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
3769 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
3770 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
3771 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
3774 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
3775 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
3777 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
3778 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
3779 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
3780 streams attached to each circuit.
3782 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
3783 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
3784 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
3785 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
3786 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
3787 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
3788 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
3789 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
3790 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
3791 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
3792 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
3793 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
3794 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
3796 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
3797 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
3798 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3800 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
3801 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
3802 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
3803 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
3804 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
3805 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
3806 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
3807 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
3808 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
3810 o Minor features (other):
3811 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
3812 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
3813 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
3814 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
3815 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
3816 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
3817 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
3818 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
3819 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3822 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
3823 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
3824 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
3825 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
3826 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
3827 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
3828 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
3829 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3831 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3832 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
3833 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
3834 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
3835 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3836 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
3837 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
3838 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
3840 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
3841 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
3842 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
3843 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
3844 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
3845 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3846 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
3847 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
3848 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3849 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
3850 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
3851 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3853 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
3854 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
3855 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3856 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
3857 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
3858 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
3859 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
3860 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
3861 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3862 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
3863 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3864 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
3865 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
3866 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
3868 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
3869 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
3871 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
3872 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
3873 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
3874 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
3875 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
3876 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
3877 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3878 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
3879 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
3880 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
3881 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
3882 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3883 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
3884 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
3886 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
3887 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
3888 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
3889 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3892 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
3893 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3894 the rest of bug 10841.
3897 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
3898 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
3899 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
3900 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
3901 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
3902 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
3903 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
3904 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
3905 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
3906 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
3907 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
3908 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3909 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
3910 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
3911 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3913 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3914 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
3915 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
3917 o Test infrastructure:
3918 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
3919 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
3920 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
3921 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3924 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
3925 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
3926 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
3927 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
3929 o Major features (client security):
3930 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
3931 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
3932 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
3933 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
3934 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
3935 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
3938 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
3939 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
3940 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
3941 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3943 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3944 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
3945 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
3946 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
3947 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
3950 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
3951 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
3953 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
3954 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
3955 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
3956 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
3957 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
3958 GeoLite2 Country database.
3961 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
3962 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
3963 bugfix on every released Tor.
3964 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
3965 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
3966 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
3967 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3968 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
3969 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
3970 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3971 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
3972 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
3973 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3974 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
3975 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
3976 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3977 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
3978 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3980 o Documentation fixes:
3981 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
3982 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3985 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
3986 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
3987 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
3988 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
3989 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
3990 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
3991 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
3992 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
3994 o Major features (client security):
3995 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
3996 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
3997 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
3998 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
3999 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
4000 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
4001 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
4002 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
4003 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
4004 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
4005 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
4006 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
4008 o Major features (bridges):
4009 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
4010 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
4011 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
4012 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
4013 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
4014 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
4015 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
4016 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
4019 o Major features (other):
4020 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
4021 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
4022 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
4023 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
4024 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
4025 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
4026 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
4027 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
4028 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
4029 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
4030 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
4031 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
4034 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
4035 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
4036 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4037 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
4038 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
4039 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
4040 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4042 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
4043 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
4044 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
4045 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
4046 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
4047 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
4048 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
4049 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
4050 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
4052 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
4053 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4054 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
4055 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
4056 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
4057 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
4059 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
4060 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
4061 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
4062 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
4063 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
4064 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
4067 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
4068 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
4069 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
4070 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
4071 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
4072 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
4073 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
4075 o Minor features (security):
4076 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
4077 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
4080 o Minor features (config options and command line):
4081 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
4082 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
4083 Implements ticket 10060.
4084 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
4085 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
4086 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
4088 o Minor features (controller):
4089 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
4090 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
4091 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
4092 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
4093 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
4096 o Minor features (build):
4097 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
4098 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
4099 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
4100 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
4101 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
4102 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
4103 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
4105 o Minor features (testing):
4106 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
4107 the unit test scripts.
4108 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
4109 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
4110 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
4111 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
4113 o Minor features (log messages):
4114 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
4115 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
4116 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
4117 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
4118 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
4119 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
4120 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
4121 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
4122 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
4123 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4125 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
4126 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
4127 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
4128 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
4129 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
4130 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
4131 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
4132 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
4133 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
4134 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4136 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
4137 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
4138 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
4139 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
4142 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4143 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
4144 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
4145 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
4146 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4148 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4149 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
4150 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
4151 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
4152 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
4153 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
4154 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
4156 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
4157 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
4158 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
4159 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
4160 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
4161 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
4162 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4164 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
4165 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
4166 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
4167 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4169 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
4170 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
4171 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
4172 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
4173 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
4174 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
4175 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
4176 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
4177 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
4178 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
4179 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4181 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
4182 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
4183 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
4184 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
4185 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
4186 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
4187 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
4188 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
4189 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
4190 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
4192 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
4193 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
4194 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
4195 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
4198 o Minor bugfixes (build):
4199 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
4200 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
4201 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
4202 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
4203 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
4205 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
4206 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4208 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4209 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
4210 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
4211 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4213 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4214 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
4215 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
4216 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4217 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
4218 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
4219 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
4220 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
4221 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
4222 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
4223 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
4224 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
4225 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
4226 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
4228 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
4229 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
4230 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4231 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
4232 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
4233 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
4235 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
4236 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
4237 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4238 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
4239 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
4240 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
4241 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
4242 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
4243 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
4244 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4245 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
4246 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4248 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
4249 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
4250 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
4251 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
4252 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
4253 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4254 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
4255 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
4256 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4257 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
4258 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
4259 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
4260 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
4261 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
4262 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
4263 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
4266 o Removed code and features:
4267 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
4268 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
4269 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
4270 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
4271 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
4272 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
4274 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
4275 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
4276 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
4277 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
4278 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
4279 part of a fix for bug 10841.
4281 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4282 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
4283 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
4284 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
4285 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
4286 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
4287 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
4288 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
4289 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
4290 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
4291 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
4294 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
4295 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
4296 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
4297 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
4298 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4300 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
4301 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
4302 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
4303 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
4304 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
4305 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
4306 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
4309 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
4310 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
4311 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
4314 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
4315 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
4316 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
4317 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
4318 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
4319 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
4320 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
4322 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
4323 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
4326 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
4327 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
4328 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
4329 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
4330 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
4331 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
4332 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
4333 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
4335 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
4336 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4337 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
4338 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
4339 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
4340 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
4343 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
4344 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4345 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
4346 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
4347 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
4350 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
4351 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
4352 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
4353 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
4354 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
4355 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
4356 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
4357 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
4359 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
4360 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
4361 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
4362 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
4363 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
4364 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
4365 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
4366 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
4367 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
4368 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
4369 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
4370 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
4371 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
4372 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
4373 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
4374 security, and privacy fixes.
4377 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
4378 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4379 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
4380 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
4383 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
4384 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
4385 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
4386 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
4387 them to solve bug 6033.)
4390 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
4391 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
4392 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
4393 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
4394 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
4395 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4396 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
4397 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
4399 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
4400 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
4401 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
4402 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4404 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
4405 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
4406 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4407 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
4408 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
4409 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
4410 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
4411 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
4412 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
4413 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4414 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
4415 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4417 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
4418 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
4419 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
4420 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
4421 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
4422 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4423 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
4424 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
4425 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4426 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
4427 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
4428 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
4429 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
4430 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
4431 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
4432 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
4435 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
4436 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
4437 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
4438 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
4439 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
4440 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
4441 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
4442 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
4443 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
4444 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
4445 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
4446 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
4447 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
4448 Implements part of proposal 222.
4450 o Minor features (other):
4451 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
4452 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
4453 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
4454 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
4455 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
4456 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
4457 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
4458 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
4459 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4461 o Documentation fixes:
4462 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
4463 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
4464 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
4465 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
4466 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
4467 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
4470 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
4471 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
4472 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
4473 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
4474 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
4475 release of the new branch.
4477 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4478 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4479 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
4481 o Major features (security):
4482 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
4483 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
4484 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
4485 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
4486 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
4487 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
4488 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
4489 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
4490 Google Summer of Code.
4491 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
4492 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
4493 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
4494 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
4495 them to solve bug 6033.)
4497 o Major features (other):
4498 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
4499 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
4500 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
4501 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
4502 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
4504 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
4505 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
4506 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
4507 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
4508 Implements ticket 8530.
4509 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
4510 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
4513 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
4514 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
4515 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
4516 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
4517 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
4518 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4519 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
4520 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
4521 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4522 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
4523 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
4524 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
4525 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4528 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
4529 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
4530 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
4531 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
4532 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
4533 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
4534 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
4535 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
4536 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
4537 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
4541 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
4542 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
4543 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
4544 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
4545 invoking the other functions it calls.
4546 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
4547 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
4548 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
4549 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
4551 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
4552 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
4553 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
4554 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
4555 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
4556 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
4557 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
4558 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
4559 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
4560 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
4561 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
4562 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
4563 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
4564 Implements part of proposal 222.
4566 o Minor features (config options):
4567 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
4568 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
4569 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
4570 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
4571 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
4572 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
4573 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
4574 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
4575 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
4576 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
4577 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
4578 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
4579 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
4580 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
4581 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
4582 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
4583 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
4586 o Minor features (build):
4587 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
4588 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
4589 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
4590 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
4591 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
4594 o Minor features (other):
4595 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
4596 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
4597 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
4598 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
4599 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
4600 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
4601 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
4602 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
4603 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
4604 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
4605 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
4606 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
4608 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4611 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
4612 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
4613 bugfix on every released Tor.
4614 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
4615 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
4616 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
4617 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
4618 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
4619 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
4621 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
4622 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
4623 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
4624 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4625 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
4626 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
4627 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
4628 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
4630 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
4631 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
4632 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
4633 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
4634 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
4636 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
4637 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4639 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
4640 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
4641 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
4643 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
4644 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
4645 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
4646 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
4647 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4649 o Minor code improvements:
4650 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
4651 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
4653 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
4654 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
4655 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
4656 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
4657 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
4660 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
4661 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
4662 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
4663 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
4665 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4666 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
4667 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
4668 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
4669 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
4670 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
4671 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
4672 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
4673 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
4674 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
4675 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
4676 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
4677 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
4678 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
4679 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
4680 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
4683 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
4684 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4685 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
4686 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
4687 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
4688 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
4689 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
4692 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
4693 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
4694 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
4695 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
4696 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
4697 Implements ticket 9574.
4700 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
4701 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
4702 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4703 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
4704 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
4705 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
4706 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
4707 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
4708 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4709 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
4710 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
4711 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
4715 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
4716 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
4717 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
4718 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
4720 o Minor fixes (config options):
4721 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
4722 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
4723 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
4724 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
4725 message is logged at notice, not at info.
4726 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
4727 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
4728 or we just won't work.)
4731 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
4732 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
4733 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
4734 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4737 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
4738 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4739 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
4742 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
4743 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
4744 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4745 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
4746 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4747 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
4748 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
4750 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
4751 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4752 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
4753 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
4756 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
4757 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
4758 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4759 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
4760 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
4761 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
4762 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
4763 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
4764 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
4765 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
4766 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4767 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
4768 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
4771 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4774 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
4775 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
4776 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4777 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
4780 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
4781 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
4782 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4785 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
4786 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
4787 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
4790 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
4791 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
4792 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4795 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
4796 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
4797 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
4798 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
4799 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
4800 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
4802 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
4803 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
4804 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
4805 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
4806 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
4807 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
4809 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
4810 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
4811 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4814 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
4815 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
4816 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
4817 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
4818 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
4820 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
4821 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
4822 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
4823 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
4824 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
4825 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
4826 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
4828 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
4829 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
4830 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
4832 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
4833 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
4837 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
4838 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
4839 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
4841 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
4842 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
4843 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
4844 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
4845 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
4846 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
4848 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
4849 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
4850 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
4851 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
4852 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
4853 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
4854 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
4857 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
4858 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
4859 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
4860 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
4861 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
4862 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
4863 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4864 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
4865 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4866 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
4867 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
4868 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4869 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
4870 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
4872 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
4873 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
4874 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
4875 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
4878 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4879 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
4880 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
4881 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
4882 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
4883 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
4885 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
4886 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
4890 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
4891 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
4892 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
4893 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
4894 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
4895 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
4896 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4898 o Removed documentation:
4899 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
4900 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
4902 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4903 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
4904 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
4905 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
4908 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
4909 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
4910 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
4911 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
4912 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
4913 variety of other issues.
4916 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
4917 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
4918 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
4919 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
4920 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
4921 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4922 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
4923 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
4925 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
4926 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
4927 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
4929 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
4930 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
4931 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
4932 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4933 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
4934 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
4935 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4937 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
4938 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
4939 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
4940 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
4941 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
4942 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
4943 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
4944 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4945 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
4946 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
4947 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
4948 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
4949 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4950 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
4951 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
4952 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
4953 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
4954 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
4955 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
4956 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
4957 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4959 o Major bugfixes (other):
4960 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
4961 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
4962 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
4963 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4966 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
4967 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
4968 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
4969 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
4971 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
4972 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
4974 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4976 o Minor features (build):
4977 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
4978 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
4980 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
4981 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
4983 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
4984 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
4985 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
4988 o Minor bugfixes (build):
4989 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
4990 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4991 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4992 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
4993 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
4994 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4995 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
4996 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
4997 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4998 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
4999 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
5000 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
5001 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
5004 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
5005 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
5006 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
5007 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
5008 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
5009 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
5010 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
5011 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
5012 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
5013 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
5014 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
5015 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
5016 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
5017 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5018 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5020 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5021 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
5022 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5023 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
5024 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
5025 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
5026 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
5027 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5028 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
5029 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
5030 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
5031 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
5032 Should help resolve bug 8235.
5033 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
5034 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
5035 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
5036 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5038 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
5039 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
5040 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
5041 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
5042 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
5043 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
5044 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
5045 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
5048 o Minor bugfixes (config):
5049 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
5050 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
5052 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
5053 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
5054 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5055 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
5056 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
5057 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
5058 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5059 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
5060 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
5061 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5062 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
5063 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
5064 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5065 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
5066 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
5069 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
5070 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
5071 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
5072 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
5073 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
5074 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
5075 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
5076 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
5078 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
5079 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
5080 or at least make it more diagnosable.
5081 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
5082 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
5083 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
5084 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5086 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
5087 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
5088 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
5089 the relaxed timeout log message.
5090 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
5091 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
5092 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
5094 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
5095 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
5096 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5097 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
5098 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5099 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
5100 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
5103 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
5104 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
5105 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
5106 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
5107 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5108 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
5109 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5110 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
5111 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
5112 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
5113 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
5114 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
5115 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5116 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
5117 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
5118 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
5119 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5121 o Documentation fixes:
5122 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
5123 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
5124 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
5125 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
5126 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
5127 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
5128 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
5129 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
5132 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
5133 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
5137 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
5138 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
5139 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
5140 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
5142 o Major features (directory authorities):
5143 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
5144 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
5145 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
5146 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
5147 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
5148 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
5149 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
5150 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
5151 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
5152 Implements ticket 8151.
5154 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
5155 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
5156 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
5157 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
5158 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
5160 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5161 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
5162 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
5163 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
5164 whether authentication information is present, causing all
5165 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
5166 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
5168 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
5169 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
5170 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
5172 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
5173 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
5174 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
5175 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
5176 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
5177 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
5178 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
5179 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
5180 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
5181 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
5182 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
5183 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
5184 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
5185 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
5186 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
5187 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
5188 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
5189 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
5192 o Minor features (portability):
5193 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
5194 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5195 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
5196 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
5197 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
5198 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
5199 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
5200 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5202 o Minor features (other):
5203 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
5204 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
5205 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
5206 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
5207 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
5208 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
5209 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
5210 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
5212 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5214 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
5215 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
5216 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
5217 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
5218 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
5219 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
5220 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
5221 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
5222 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
5223 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
5225 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
5226 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
5227 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
5228 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5230 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5231 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
5232 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
5233 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
5234 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
5235 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
5236 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
5238 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
5239 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
5240 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
5241 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
5242 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
5244 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
5245 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
5246 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
5247 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
5249 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5250 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
5251 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
5254 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
5255 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
5256 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
5257 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
5259 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
5260 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5261 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
5262 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5264 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
5265 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
5266 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
5268 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
5269 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
5270 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
5271 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
5273 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
5274 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
5275 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5276 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
5277 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
5278 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
5279 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5281 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5282 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
5286 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
5287 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
5288 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
5289 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
5290 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
5293 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5294 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
5295 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
5296 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
5298 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
5299 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
5300 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
5304 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
5305 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
5306 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
5307 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
5308 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
5309 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
5310 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
5311 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
5312 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
5313 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
5314 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
5315 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
5316 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
5319 o Major features (relay):
5320 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
5321 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
5322 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
5323 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
5324 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
5325 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
5326 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
5328 o Major features (portability):
5329 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
5330 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
5331 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
5332 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
5333 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5336 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
5337 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
5338 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
5339 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
5340 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
5341 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
5343 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
5344 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
5345 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
5346 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
5347 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
5348 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
5349 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
5350 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
5352 o Minor features (path selection):
5353 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
5354 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
5355 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
5356 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
5357 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
5358 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
5359 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
5360 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
5361 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
5362 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
5363 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
5364 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
5365 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
5366 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
5367 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
5368 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
5369 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
5370 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
5371 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
5373 o Minor features (log messages):
5374 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
5375 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
5376 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
5377 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
5380 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
5381 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
5382 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5383 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
5384 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
5385 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
5386 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
5387 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
5388 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
5389 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5390 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
5391 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5393 o Build improvements:
5394 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
5395 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
5396 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
5397 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
5398 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
5399 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
5400 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
5401 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
5402 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
5403 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
5404 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
5405 than to perform erroneously.
5408 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
5409 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
5410 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
5412 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
5413 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
5414 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
5417 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5418 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
5420 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
5421 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
5425 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
5426 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
5430 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
5431 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
5432 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
5436 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
5437 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
5438 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
5439 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
5442 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
5443 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
5444 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
5445 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
5446 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
5447 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
5448 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
5449 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
5450 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
5451 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
5452 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
5455 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
5456 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
5457 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
5458 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
5459 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
5460 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
5461 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
5462 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
5463 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
5464 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
5465 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
5467 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
5468 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
5469 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
5471 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
5472 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
5473 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
5475 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
5477 o Major features (better link encryption):
5478 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
5479 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
5480 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
5481 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
5482 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
5483 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
5486 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
5487 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
5488 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
5489 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
5490 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
5491 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
5492 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
5494 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
5495 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
5496 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
5497 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
5499 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
5502 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
5503 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
5504 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5507 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
5508 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
5509 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
5510 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
5511 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
5512 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
5513 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
5514 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
5515 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5517 o Minor features (testing):
5518 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
5519 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
5520 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
5522 o Minor features (path bias detection):
5523 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
5524 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
5525 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
5526 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
5527 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
5528 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
5529 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
5530 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
5531 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
5532 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
5533 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
5534 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
5535 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
5536 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
5537 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
5538 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
5539 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
5540 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
5541 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
5542 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
5543 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
5544 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
5545 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
5546 detection capability loss.
5548 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5549 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
5550 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
5551 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
5552 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5553 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
5554 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
5555 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
5558 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5559 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
5560 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
5561 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
5562 and the different handshakes it supports.
5563 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
5564 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
5565 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
5566 any encoding is overkill.
5569 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
5570 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
5571 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
5572 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
5573 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
5574 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
5575 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
5576 and fixes a variety of other issues.
5578 o Major features (client resilience):
5579 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
5580 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
5581 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
5582 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
5583 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
5584 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
5585 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
5586 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
5587 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
5588 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
5589 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
5590 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
5591 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
5592 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
5593 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
5595 o Major features (IPv6):
5596 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
5597 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
5598 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
5599 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
5600 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
5601 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
5602 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
5603 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
5605 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
5606 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
5608 o Major features (geoip database):
5609 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
5610 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
5611 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
5612 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
5613 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
5614 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
5615 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
5616 Country database, as modified above.
5618 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
5619 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
5620 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
5621 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
5622 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
5623 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
5624 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
5625 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
5626 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
5627 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
5628 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
5629 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
5630 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
5631 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
5632 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
5633 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
5634 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
5637 o Major bugfixes (other):
5638 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
5639 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
5640 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
5641 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
5642 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
5643 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
5644 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
5645 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
5647 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
5648 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5651 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
5652 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
5653 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
5654 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
5655 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
5656 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
5657 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
5658 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
5660 o Minor features (IPv6):
5661 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
5662 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
5663 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
5664 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
5665 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
5666 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
5667 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
5668 connect to the wrong addresses.
5669 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
5670 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
5671 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
5672 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
5676 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
5677 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
5678 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
5680 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
5681 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
5682 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
5684 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
5685 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
5686 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
5689 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
5690 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
5692 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5693 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
5694 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
5695 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
5696 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
5699 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
5700 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
5701 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
5702 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
5703 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
5704 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
5705 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
5706 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
5708 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
5709 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
5710 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
5711 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
5712 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
5713 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
5714 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
5715 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
5716 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
5717 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
5718 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
5721 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
5722 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
5723 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
5724 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
5725 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
5726 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
5727 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
5728 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
5729 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
5730 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
5733 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
5734 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
5738 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
5739 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
5740 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
5741 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
5744 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
5745 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
5747 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
5748 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
5749 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
5750 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
5751 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
5752 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
5753 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
5754 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
5755 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
5756 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
5759 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
5761 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
5762 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
5763 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
5764 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
5765 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
5768 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
5769 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
5770 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5771 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
5772 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
5774 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
5775 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5776 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
5777 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
5778 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
5779 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
5780 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
5782 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
5783 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5784 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
5785 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
5786 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
5787 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5788 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
5789 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5791 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5792 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
5793 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
5794 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
5795 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
5796 present the same extensions.)
5799 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
5800 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
5801 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
5802 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
5803 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
5805 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5806 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
5807 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
5808 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
5810 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
5811 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
5812 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
5813 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5815 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5816 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
5817 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
5818 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
5819 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
5820 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
5821 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
5822 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
5823 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5825 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
5826 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
5827 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
5828 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
5829 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5832 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
5833 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
5834 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
5836 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5837 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
5839 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
5840 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
5844 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
5845 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
5846 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
5847 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
5850 o Major bugfixes (security):
5851 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
5852 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
5853 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
5855 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
5856 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
5857 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
5858 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5861 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
5862 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
5863 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
5864 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
5865 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
5866 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
5867 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
5868 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5871 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
5872 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
5873 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
5874 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5877 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
5878 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
5879 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
5880 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
5881 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
5882 scheduling algorithms.
5884 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5885 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
5886 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
5888 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5889 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
5890 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
5891 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
5892 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
5893 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
5894 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
5895 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
5896 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
5897 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
5898 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
5900 o Internal abstraction features:
5901 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
5902 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
5903 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
5904 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
5905 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
5906 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
5907 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
5908 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
5909 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
5910 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
5911 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
5912 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
5913 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
5914 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
5915 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
5916 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
5917 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
5919 o Required libraries:
5920 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
5921 strongly recommended.
5924 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
5925 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
5926 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
5927 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
5928 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
5929 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
5930 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
5931 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
5932 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
5934 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
5935 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
5936 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
5937 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
5938 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
5939 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
5940 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
5941 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5942 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
5943 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
5944 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
5945 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
5946 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
5947 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
5948 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5951 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
5952 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
5953 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
5954 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
5955 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
5956 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
5957 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
5958 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
5959 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
5960 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
5961 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
5962 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5963 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
5964 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
5965 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5966 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
5967 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
5968 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
5969 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
5971 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
5972 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
5973 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
5974 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
5975 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
5976 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
5977 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
5980 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
5981 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
5982 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
5983 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
5985 o New directory authorities:
5986 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
5987 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
5989 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
5990 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
5991 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
5992 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
5993 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
5994 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
5995 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
5996 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
5997 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
5998 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
5999 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
6002 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
6003 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
6004 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
6006 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6007 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
6008 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
6009 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6010 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
6011 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
6012 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6013 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
6014 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
6016 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6017 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
6018 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
6019 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
6020 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
6021 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
6022 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
6023 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
6024 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
6025 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
6026 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
6027 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
6028 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6029 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
6030 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
6031 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
6032 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
6033 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
6035 o Documentation fixes:
6036 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
6039 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
6040 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
6041 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
6042 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
6045 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
6046 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
6047 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6050 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
6051 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
6052 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
6053 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
6054 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
6055 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
6056 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
6057 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6059 o Security features:
6060 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
6061 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
6062 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
6063 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
6064 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
6065 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
6066 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
6067 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
6068 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
6072 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
6073 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
6074 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
6077 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
6078 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
6079 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6080 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
6081 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6082 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
6083 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
6084 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
6085 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
6086 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
6087 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6088 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
6089 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
6090 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
6092 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
6093 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6094 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
6095 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
6096 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6098 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
6099 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
6100 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
6101 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6102 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
6103 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
6104 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6105 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
6106 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
6107 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
6108 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
6109 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
6110 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
6111 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6112 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
6113 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
6114 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6115 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
6116 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
6117 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
6119 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6120 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
6121 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
6122 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
6123 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
6124 testable, and a little less fragile too.
6125 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
6126 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6128 o Documentation fixes:
6129 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
6130 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
6134 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
6135 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
6139 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
6140 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
6141 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6144 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
6145 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
6149 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
6150 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
6154 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
6155 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
6156 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6157 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
6158 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
6159 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
6160 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
6164 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
6165 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
6166 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
6167 log messages less noisy.
6170 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
6171 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
6175 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
6176 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
6177 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
6178 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
6179 last time we raised it).
6182 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
6183 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
6185 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
6186 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
6187 part of ticket 6736.
6188 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
6189 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
6190 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
6194 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
6195 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
6196 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
6197 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
6198 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
6200 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
6201 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6202 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
6203 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
6204 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6205 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
6206 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
6207 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6208 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
6209 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6210 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
6211 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6214 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
6215 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
6216 bunch of compatibility code.
6219 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
6220 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
6221 the ORPort and the DirPort.
6224 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
6225 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
6226 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
6227 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
6229 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
6230 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
6231 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
6233 o Major features (bridges):
6234 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
6235 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
6236 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
6239 o Major features (IPv6):
6240 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
6241 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
6242 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
6243 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
6244 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
6245 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
6246 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
6247 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
6248 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
6250 o Major features (build):
6251 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
6252 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
6253 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
6254 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
6255 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
6256 fixes by Jim Meyering.
6257 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
6258 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
6259 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
6261 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
6262 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
6263 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
6264 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
6265 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
6266 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
6267 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
6268 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
6269 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
6270 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
6271 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
6273 o Minor features (streamlining);
6274 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
6275 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
6277 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
6278 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
6279 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
6280 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
6281 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
6282 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6284 o Minor features (controller):
6285 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
6287 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
6288 Implements ticket 4971.
6290 o Minor features (IPv6):
6291 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
6292 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
6293 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
6294 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
6295 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
6297 o Minor features (log messages):
6298 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
6299 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
6300 Resolves ticket 6758.
6301 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
6302 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
6303 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
6304 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6305 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
6306 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
6307 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
6309 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
6310 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
6311 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
6312 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
6313 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
6316 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6317 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
6318 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
6319 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
6320 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
6322 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
6323 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
6324 Implements ticket 5529.
6325 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
6326 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
6327 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
6328 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
6329 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
6330 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
6331 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
6332 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
6333 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
6334 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
6337 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
6338 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
6339 from a source distribution.)
6342 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
6343 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6344 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
6345 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
6346 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
6347 and cleans up other smaller issues.
6349 o Major bugfixes (security):
6350 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
6351 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
6352 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
6353 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
6354 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
6355 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
6356 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
6357 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
6358 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
6359 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
6360 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
6361 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6362 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
6363 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
6364 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
6365 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
6369 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
6370 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
6371 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
6372 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6373 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
6374 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
6375 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
6376 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
6377 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
6378 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6381 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
6382 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
6383 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
6384 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
6385 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6386 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
6387 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
6388 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
6389 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
6390 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
6391 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
6393 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
6394 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
6395 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
6397 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
6398 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
6399 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
6400 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
6401 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6402 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
6403 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
6404 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
6405 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6406 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
6407 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6408 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
6409 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
6410 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
6413 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
6414 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
6415 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
6416 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
6417 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6418 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
6419 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
6420 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
6421 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
6422 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
6423 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
6424 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
6425 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
6426 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
6427 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6430 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
6431 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
6432 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
6433 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
6434 Resolves ticket 6732.
6437 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
6438 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
6439 attack that could in theory leak path information.
6442 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
6443 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
6444 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6445 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
6446 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
6447 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
6448 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
6449 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
6450 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
6451 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
6452 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
6453 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
6454 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
6455 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6458 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
6459 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6460 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
6461 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
6464 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
6465 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
6466 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6467 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
6468 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
6469 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6470 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
6471 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
6472 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
6473 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
6474 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
6475 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
6476 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
6477 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
6478 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
6479 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
6480 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6483 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
6484 a little more useful.
6485 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
6486 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6487 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
6488 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
6489 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
6490 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
6491 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
6494 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
6495 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6496 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
6497 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6498 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
6499 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
6503 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
6504 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
6505 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
6506 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
6507 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
6510 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
6511 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
6512 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
6515 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
6517 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
6519 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6520 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
6521 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
6522 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
6523 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
6526 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
6527 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6528 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
6529 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
6530 since the beginning of Tor.
6533 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
6534 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
6535 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
6536 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
6537 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
6538 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
6539 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
6540 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6541 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
6542 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6545 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
6546 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6549 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
6550 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
6551 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
6552 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
6555 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
6556 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6557 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
6558 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
6559 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
6560 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6563 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
6564 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
6565 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
6566 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
6567 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
6568 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6569 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
6570 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
6571 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
6572 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
6573 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
6574 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
6575 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6576 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
6577 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
6578 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6579 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
6580 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6582 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6583 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
6584 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
6586 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
6587 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6588 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
6589 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
6591 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
6592 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6593 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
6594 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6595 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
6596 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
6597 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6598 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
6599 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6600 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
6601 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6602 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
6603 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
6604 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
6605 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
6606 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
6609 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
6610 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
6611 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
6612 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
6613 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
6616 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
6617 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
6618 options. Closes bug 4748.
6621 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
6622 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
6623 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
6624 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
6625 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
6629 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
6630 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
6632 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
6633 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
6634 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
6635 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
6636 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
6637 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
6638 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
6639 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
6640 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
6643 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
6644 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
6645 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
6646 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
6647 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
6648 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
6649 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
6650 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
6653 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
6654 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
6655 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
6656 case for flushing marked connections.
6657 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
6658 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6659 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
6660 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
6661 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
6662 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
6663 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6664 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
6665 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6666 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
6667 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
6668 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
6669 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6670 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
6671 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
6672 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
6673 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6674 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
6675 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
6676 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
6677 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
6678 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
6679 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6680 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
6681 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
6683 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
6684 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6685 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
6689 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
6690 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
6691 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
6692 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
6693 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
6694 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
6695 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
6696 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
6697 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
6698 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
6699 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
6700 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
6701 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
6702 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
6703 Addresses ticket 5458.
6704 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6707 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
6708 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
6711 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
6712 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
6713 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
6717 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
6718 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
6719 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
6720 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
6721 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
6722 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
6723 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6724 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
6725 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
6726 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
6727 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6730 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
6731 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6734 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
6735 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
6738 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
6739 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
6740 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
6741 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
6742 that get us closer to a release candidate.
6744 o Major bugfixes (general):
6745 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
6746 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
6747 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
6748 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
6749 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
6750 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
6751 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6752 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
6753 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
6755 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
6756 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
6757 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
6758 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
6761 o Major bugfixes (clients):
6762 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
6763 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
6764 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
6765 which introduced predicted ports.
6766 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
6767 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
6768 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
6769 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6770 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
6771 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
6772 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
6773 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
6774 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
6775 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
6776 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6777 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
6778 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
6780 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
6781 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
6782 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
6783 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
6784 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
6785 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
6786 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
6787 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
6788 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
6789 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
6790 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
6794 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
6795 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
6796 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
6797 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
6798 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
6799 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
6800 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
6801 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
6802 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
6803 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
6804 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
6805 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
6806 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
6807 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
6809 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
6810 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
6811 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
6812 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
6813 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
6814 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
6815 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
6816 sure. Closes bug 5139.
6817 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
6818 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
6819 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
6820 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
6821 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
6822 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
6823 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6825 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
6826 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
6827 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6828 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
6829 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
6830 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
6831 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
6832 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
6833 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
6834 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
6835 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
6836 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
6837 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
6838 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
6839 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
6840 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
6841 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
6842 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6843 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
6844 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
6846 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6847 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
6848 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
6849 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
6850 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
6851 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
6852 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
6853 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
6854 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
6855 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
6856 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
6857 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
6858 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
6860 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
6861 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6862 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
6863 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
6865 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
6866 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
6867 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6868 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
6869 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
6870 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6871 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
6872 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6873 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
6874 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
6876 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
6877 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
6878 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
6880 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6881 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
6882 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
6883 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
6884 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
6885 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
6886 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
6887 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
6888 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6889 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
6890 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
6891 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6892 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
6893 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
6894 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
6895 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6896 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
6897 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
6898 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
6899 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
6901 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
6902 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
6903 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6904 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
6905 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
6906 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
6908 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
6909 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
6910 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
6912 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
6913 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
6914 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
6915 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6916 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
6917 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6919 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6920 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
6921 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
6923 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
6924 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
6925 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6926 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
6927 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
6928 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6929 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
6930 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
6931 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
6932 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6933 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
6934 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
6935 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
6936 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
6937 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
6938 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
6940 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
6941 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
6942 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6943 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
6944 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
6945 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6946 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
6947 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6948 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
6949 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6950 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
6951 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
6952 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
6955 o Documentation fixes:
6956 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
6957 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
6958 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
6959 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
6960 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
6961 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
6964 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
6965 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
6969 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
6970 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
6971 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
6972 and fixes several crash bugs.
6974 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
6975 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
6976 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
6977 those packages and upgrade anyway.
6979 o Directory authority changes:
6980 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
6981 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
6985 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
6986 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
6987 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
6988 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
6989 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
6990 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
6991 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
6992 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
6993 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
6994 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
6995 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
6996 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
6997 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
6998 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
6999 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
7000 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
7001 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
7002 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
7003 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
7004 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
7005 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
7006 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
7007 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
7008 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
7009 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
7010 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
7011 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
7014 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
7015 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7016 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
7017 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
7019 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
7020 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
7022 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
7023 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
7024 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
7025 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
7026 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
7027 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
7028 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
7029 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
7032 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
7033 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7034 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
7035 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
7036 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
7037 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
7038 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
7039 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
7040 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
7041 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
7042 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
7043 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
7044 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
7045 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
7046 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
7047 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
7048 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
7049 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
7050 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
7051 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
7052 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
7053 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
7054 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
7055 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
7056 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
7057 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
7058 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
7059 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
7060 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
7061 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
7062 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
7063 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
7064 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7065 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
7066 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7067 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
7068 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
7069 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
7070 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
7071 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7072 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
7073 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7074 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
7075 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
7076 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
7077 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
7079 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
7080 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
7081 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
7082 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
7083 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
7084 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
7085 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
7086 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
7087 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
7088 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
7089 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7090 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
7091 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7092 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
7093 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
7096 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
7097 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
7098 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
7099 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
7101 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7104 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
7105 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
7106 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
7107 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
7108 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
7109 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
7110 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
7113 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
7114 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
7115 the development branch build on Windows again.
7117 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7118 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
7119 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
7120 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
7121 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
7122 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
7123 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
7124 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
7125 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7126 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
7127 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
7128 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
7129 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7130 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
7131 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
7134 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
7135 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
7136 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7137 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
7139 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
7140 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
7141 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
7142 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
7143 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
7144 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
7147 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
7148 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
7149 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
7150 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
7151 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
7152 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
7153 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
7154 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
7155 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
7158 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
7159 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
7160 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
7161 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
7165 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
7166 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
7167 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
7168 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
7170 o Directory authority changes:
7171 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
7175 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
7176 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7177 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
7178 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
7180 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
7181 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
7182 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
7183 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
7185 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
7186 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
7187 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7189 o Major features (performance):
7190 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
7191 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
7192 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
7193 much faster than other AES implementations.
7195 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
7196 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
7197 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
7198 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
7199 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
7200 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
7201 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
7202 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
7203 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
7204 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
7205 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
7206 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
7207 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
7208 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
7209 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7210 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
7211 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
7212 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
7214 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
7215 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
7216 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
7217 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7218 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
7219 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7220 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
7221 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
7222 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
7224 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
7225 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
7226 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
7227 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
7228 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
7229 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
7232 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
7233 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
7234 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
7235 please let us know about it.
7236 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
7237 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
7238 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
7239 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
7240 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7241 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7242 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
7243 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
7245 o Default torrc changes:
7246 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
7247 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
7249 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
7250 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
7251 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
7255 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
7256 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
7257 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
7258 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
7261 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
7262 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
7263 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
7264 it would be a bad idea to start.
7267 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
7268 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
7269 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
7270 that get us closer to a release candidate.
7272 o Directory authority changes:
7273 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
7276 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
7277 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
7278 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
7279 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
7280 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
7281 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
7282 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
7283 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
7284 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
7285 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
7286 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
7287 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
7288 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
7289 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
7290 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
7291 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
7293 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
7294 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
7295 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
7296 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
7297 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
7298 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7299 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
7300 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
7301 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7302 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
7303 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
7304 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
7306 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
7307 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
7308 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7309 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
7310 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
7312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7313 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
7314 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
7315 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
7316 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
7317 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
7318 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
7319 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
7320 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
7321 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
7322 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
7323 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
7324 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7325 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
7326 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7327 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
7328 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
7329 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
7330 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
7331 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
7332 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
7333 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
7336 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
7337 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
7338 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7339 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
7340 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
7341 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
7342 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
7343 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
7344 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7345 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
7346 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
7347 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
7348 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
7349 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
7350 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
7351 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
7352 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
7355 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
7356 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
7357 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7360 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
7361 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
7362 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
7363 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
7366 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
7367 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
7369 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
7370 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
7371 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
7372 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7373 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
7374 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
7375 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
7376 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7377 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
7378 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
7379 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
7380 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7383 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
7384 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
7385 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
7386 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
7387 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
7388 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
7389 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7392 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
7393 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
7394 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
7395 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7396 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
7397 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
7398 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
7399 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
7400 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
7401 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
7403 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
7404 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
7405 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
7406 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
7407 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7408 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
7409 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
7410 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
7411 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
7414 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7415 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
7416 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
7420 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
7421 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
7422 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
7423 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
7424 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
7425 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
7428 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
7429 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
7430 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
7431 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
7432 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
7433 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
7434 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
7435 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
7437 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
7438 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
7439 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
7440 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
7441 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
7442 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
7443 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
7444 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
7446 o Major security workaround:
7447 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
7448 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
7449 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
7450 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
7451 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
7452 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
7453 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
7454 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
7455 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
7456 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
7457 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
7460 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
7461 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
7462 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
7463 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
7464 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
7465 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
7466 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
7467 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7468 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
7469 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
7470 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
7471 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
7472 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
7474 o Minor features (controller):
7475 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
7476 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
7477 file. Resolves bug 1101.
7478 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
7479 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
7480 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
7481 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
7482 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
7483 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
7485 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
7486 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
7487 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
7488 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
7489 part of ticket 3457.
7490 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
7491 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
7492 circuit-status' control-port command.
7494 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7495 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
7496 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
7497 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
7498 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
7500 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
7501 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
7502 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
7503 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
7504 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
7505 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
7506 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
7508 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
7509 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
7511 o Minor features (other):
7512 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
7513 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
7514 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
7515 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
7516 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
7517 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
7518 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
7519 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
7521 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
7522 them from the other auths.
7523 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
7524 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
7525 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
7526 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
7528 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7530 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7531 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
7532 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
7533 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
7534 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
7535 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
7536 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
7537 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
7538 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
7539 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
7540 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7541 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
7542 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
7543 be disabled using the new
7544 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
7545 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7546 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
7547 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
7548 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
7549 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
7550 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
7551 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
7552 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
7553 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
7554 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
7555 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
7557 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
7558 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
7559 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
7562 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
7563 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
7564 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
7566 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
7567 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
7568 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
7569 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
7570 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7571 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
7572 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7574 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
7575 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
7576 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
7577 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
7578 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
7579 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
7580 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
7581 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
7583 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
7584 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
7585 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
7586 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
7587 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
7588 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
7589 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
7590 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
7591 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
7594 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7595 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
7596 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
7597 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
7598 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
7599 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
7600 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
7601 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
7602 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7603 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
7604 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
7605 accidentally been reverted.
7606 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
7607 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
7608 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
7609 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
7610 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
7611 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
7612 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
7613 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
7614 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
7615 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7616 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
7617 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
7618 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
7619 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
7620 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7621 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
7622 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7623 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
7624 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7627 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
7628 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
7629 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
7630 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
7631 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
7632 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
7633 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
7635 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7636 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
7637 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
7638 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
7639 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
7640 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
7641 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
7643 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
7644 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
7645 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
7646 invalid value, rather than just -1.
7647 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
7648 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
7649 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
7650 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
7651 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
7652 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
7653 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
7657 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
7658 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
7659 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
7661 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
7662 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
7663 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
7664 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
7665 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
7666 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
7667 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
7668 (which Tor does not do by default).
7670 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
7671 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
7672 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
7673 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
7674 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
7676 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
7680 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7681 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7682 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7683 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7686 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
7687 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
7688 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
7689 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
7690 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
7691 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
7692 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
7693 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
7694 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
7695 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
7696 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7699 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7702 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
7703 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
7704 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
7706 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
7707 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
7708 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
7709 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
7710 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
7711 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
7712 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
7713 (which Tor does not do by default).
7715 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
7716 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
7717 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
7718 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
7719 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
7721 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
7722 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
7723 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
7726 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
7727 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
7728 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
7729 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
7730 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
7732 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
7733 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
7736 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7737 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7738 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7739 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7740 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
7741 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
7742 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
7743 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
7745 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
7746 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
7747 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
7748 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
7749 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
7750 close based on processing a cell on it.
7751 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
7752 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
7753 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
7754 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7755 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
7756 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
7757 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7758 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
7759 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
7760 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
7761 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
7762 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
7763 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
7764 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
7765 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
7768 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
7769 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
7770 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
7771 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
7772 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
7773 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
7774 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
7776 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
7777 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
7778 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
7779 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
7780 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
7781 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
7782 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
7783 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
7784 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7785 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
7786 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
7787 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
7788 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
7789 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7790 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
7791 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
7792 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
7793 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
7794 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7795 Reported by "troll_un".
7796 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
7797 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7798 Reported by "troll_un".
7799 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7800 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
7801 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
7802 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
7805 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
7806 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
7807 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
7808 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
7809 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
7810 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
7811 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
7812 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
7813 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
7814 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
7815 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7817 o Packaging changes:
7818 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
7819 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
7822 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
7823 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
7824 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
7825 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
7826 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
7828 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
7829 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
7831 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7832 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
7833 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
7834 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
7835 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7836 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
7837 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
7838 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
7839 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
7842 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7845 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
7846 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
7847 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
7848 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
7849 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
7850 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
7851 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
7854 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
7855 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
7856 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
7857 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
7858 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
7859 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
7860 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
7861 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
7862 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
7863 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
7864 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
7865 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7866 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
7867 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
7868 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
7869 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
7870 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
7871 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
7872 Resolves ticket 4526.
7873 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
7874 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
7875 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
7876 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
7877 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
7878 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
7879 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
7880 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
7881 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
7882 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
7883 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
7884 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
7885 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
7886 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
7887 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
7888 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
7891 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
7892 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
7893 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
7894 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
7895 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
7896 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
7897 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
7898 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
7899 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
7900 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7902 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
7903 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
7904 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
7905 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
7906 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
7907 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
7908 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
7909 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
7910 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
7912 o Minor features (new/different config options):
7913 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
7914 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
7915 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
7916 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
7917 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
7918 Implements issue 933.
7919 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
7920 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
7921 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
7922 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
7923 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
7924 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
7925 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
7926 appending to the list.
7927 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
7928 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
7929 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
7930 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
7932 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
7933 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
7934 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
7935 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
7936 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
7937 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
7938 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
7939 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
7942 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
7943 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
7944 Resolves ticket 2474.
7945 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
7946 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
7947 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
7948 Required by fix for bug 3460.
7949 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
7950 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
7951 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
7952 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
7953 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
7954 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
7955 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
7956 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
7957 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
7959 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7960 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
7961 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
7963 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
7965 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
7966 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
7968 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
7969 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
7970 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
7971 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
7972 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
7973 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
7974 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
7976 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
7977 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
7978 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7979 Reported by "troll_un".
7980 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
7981 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7982 Reported by "troll_un".
7983 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
7984 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
7985 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
7986 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
7988 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
7989 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
7991 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
7992 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
7993 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
7994 with help from wanoskarnet.
7995 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
7996 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7999 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
8000 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
8001 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
8002 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8004 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
8005 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
8006 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
8007 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
8008 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
8009 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
8010 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
8011 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
8014 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
8015 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
8016 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
8017 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
8018 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
8019 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
8020 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
8021 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
8022 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
8025 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
8026 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
8027 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
8028 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
8030 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
8031 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
8032 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
8033 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8034 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
8035 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
8036 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
8037 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
8038 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
8039 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
8040 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
8041 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
8042 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
8043 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
8044 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
8045 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
8046 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
8047 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
8048 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
8049 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
8050 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
8051 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
8052 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
8053 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
8056 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
8057 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
8058 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
8059 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
8060 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
8061 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8062 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
8063 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
8066 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8067 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
8068 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
8069 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
8070 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
8071 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
8072 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
8073 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
8074 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
8075 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
8076 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
8077 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
8078 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
8079 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
8080 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
8082 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
8083 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
8084 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
8085 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
8086 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8087 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
8088 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
8089 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8090 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
8091 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
8092 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
8093 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
8094 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
8095 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8096 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
8097 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
8098 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8100 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8101 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
8102 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
8103 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
8104 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8106 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
8107 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
8108 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
8110 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
8111 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
8112 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
8114 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
8115 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
8117 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
8118 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8121 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
8122 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
8123 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
8124 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
8125 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
8126 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
8127 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
8128 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
8129 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
8130 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
8131 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
8132 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
8133 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
8134 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
8136 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
8137 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
8138 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8140 o Packaging changes:
8141 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
8142 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
8144 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8145 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
8146 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
8147 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
8148 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
8149 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
8150 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
8151 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
8152 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
8155 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
8157 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
8158 ./src/test/bench binary.
8159 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
8160 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
8163 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
8164 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
8165 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
8169 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
8170 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
8171 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
8172 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
8173 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
8174 close based on processing a cell on it.
8175 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
8176 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
8177 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8178 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
8179 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
8180 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
8181 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
8182 cells were introduced.
8185 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
8186 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
8189 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
8190 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
8191 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
8192 users. Everybody should upgrade.
8194 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
8195 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
8198 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
8199 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
8200 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
8201 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
8202 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
8203 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
8205 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
8206 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
8207 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
8208 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
8209 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
8210 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
8211 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
8212 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
8213 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
8214 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
8215 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
8216 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
8217 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
8218 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
8219 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
8220 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
8221 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
8222 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
8225 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8226 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
8227 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
8228 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
8229 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
8230 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
8231 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
8232 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
8233 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
8234 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
8235 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
8236 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
8237 Partly fixes bug 3825.
8238 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
8239 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
8240 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
8241 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
8242 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
8243 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
8244 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
8246 o Major bugfixes (other):
8247 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
8248 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
8249 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
8250 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8251 Found by "frosty_un".
8252 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
8253 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
8254 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
8255 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
8256 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
8257 immensely in tracking this bug down.
8258 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
8259 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
8262 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8263 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
8264 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
8265 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
8266 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
8267 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
8268 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
8269 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
8270 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
8271 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
8272 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
8273 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
8274 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
8275 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8276 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
8277 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
8278 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
8279 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
8280 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
8281 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
8282 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
8284 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8285 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
8286 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
8287 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8288 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
8289 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
8290 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
8291 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
8292 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
8293 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
8294 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
8297 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
8298 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
8299 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
8300 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
8301 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
8302 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
8303 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
8304 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
8305 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
8306 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
8307 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
8308 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
8309 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
8310 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8312 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8313 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
8314 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
8315 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
8316 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
8317 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
8318 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
8319 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
8322 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
8323 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
8324 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
8326 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
8327 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
8328 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
8329 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
8330 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
8331 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
8332 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
8333 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
8334 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
8335 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
8336 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
8337 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
8338 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
8340 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
8341 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
8342 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
8343 currently connected to them.
8345 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
8346 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
8347 remain; see for example proposal 188.
8349 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
8350 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
8351 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
8352 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
8353 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
8354 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
8355 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
8356 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
8357 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
8358 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
8359 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
8360 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
8361 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
8362 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
8363 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
8364 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
8365 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
8366 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
8369 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
8370 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
8371 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
8372 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
8373 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
8374 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
8375 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
8376 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8377 when bridges were introduced.
8378 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
8379 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
8380 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
8381 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8382 Found by "frosty_un".
8385 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
8386 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
8388 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
8389 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
8390 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
8391 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
8392 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
8393 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
8394 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
8397 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
8398 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
8399 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
8400 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
8401 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
8402 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
8403 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
8404 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
8405 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
8406 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
8407 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
8408 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
8409 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
8410 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
8411 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
8412 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
8413 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
8414 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
8416 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
8417 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
8418 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
8419 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8420 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
8421 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
8422 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
8423 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
8424 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
8425 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
8426 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
8427 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8430 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
8431 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
8432 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
8433 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8436 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
8437 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
8438 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
8439 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
8440 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
8442 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8443 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
8444 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
8445 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
8446 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
8447 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
8448 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
8449 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8450 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8451 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8453 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8454 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
8455 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
8456 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
8457 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
8458 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
8459 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
8460 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
8461 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
8462 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
8463 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
8464 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
8465 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
8466 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
8467 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8468 Found by "frosty_un".
8469 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
8470 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
8471 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
8472 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
8473 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
8474 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8475 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
8476 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
8477 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8478 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8479 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8480 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8481 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8482 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
8483 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
8484 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
8485 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
8486 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
8487 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
8489 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8490 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8491 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8492 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8493 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8494 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8495 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8496 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8498 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
8499 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
8500 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
8501 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
8502 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8503 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8504 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8505 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8506 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8507 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8508 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
8509 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
8511 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
8512 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8513 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8514 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8515 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
8516 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8517 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
8518 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
8519 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
8521 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
8523 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
8524 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
8525 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
8526 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8527 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
8528 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
8529 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
8530 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8532 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
8533 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
8534 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
8535 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
8536 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8538 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
8539 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8540 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8541 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
8542 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8545 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
8546 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
8547 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
8548 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
8549 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
8552 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
8553 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
8554 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
8555 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
8556 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
8557 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
8558 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8559 when bridges were introduced.
8562 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
8563 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
8564 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8566 o Major features (networking):
8567 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
8568 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
8569 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
8570 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
8571 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
8575 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
8576 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
8577 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8580 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
8581 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
8582 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
8583 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8585 o Minor features (diagnostics):
8586 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
8587 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
8590 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
8591 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
8592 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
8593 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
8594 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
8595 listed in the network consensus and republish.
8597 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8598 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
8599 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
8600 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8602 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
8603 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
8604 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
8605 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
8606 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
8607 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
8608 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
8609 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
8610 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
8611 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
8612 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
8614 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8615 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8616 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8617 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
8618 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
8619 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
8620 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
8621 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
8622 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
8623 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8625 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8626 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
8627 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
8628 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
8629 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
8630 fixes part of bug 2442.
8631 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
8632 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
8633 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
8635 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
8636 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
8637 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
8638 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
8639 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8641 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
8642 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
8643 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
8644 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
8645 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
8648 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
8649 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
8650 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
8654 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
8655 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
8656 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
8657 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
8658 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
8659 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
8660 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
8663 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
8664 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
8665 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
8666 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
8667 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
8668 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
8669 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
8672 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
8673 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
8674 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
8675 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
8676 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
8677 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
8678 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
8679 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
8680 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8683 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
8684 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
8687 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
8688 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
8689 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
8690 reachable from Iran again.
8693 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
8694 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
8695 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8697 o Minor features (security):
8698 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
8699 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
8700 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
8701 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
8702 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
8703 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
8704 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
8705 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
8706 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
8707 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
8710 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
8711 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
8712 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
8713 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
8714 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
8715 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
8716 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
8717 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
8718 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8720 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
8721 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
8722 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
8723 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
8724 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
8726 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
8727 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
8728 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
8729 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
8730 fixes part of bug 2442.
8731 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
8732 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
8733 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
8735 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
8736 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
8737 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
8738 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
8739 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8742 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
8743 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8744 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
8745 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
8746 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
8747 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
8750 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
8751 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
8752 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
8753 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
8754 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
8755 bufferevent-based networking backend.
8757 o Major features (stream isolation):
8758 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
8759 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
8760 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
8761 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
8762 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
8763 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
8764 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
8765 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
8766 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
8767 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
8768 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
8769 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
8770 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
8771 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
8773 o Major features (other):
8774 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
8775 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
8776 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
8777 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
8778 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
8779 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
8780 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
8781 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
8782 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
8783 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
8784 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
8785 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
8786 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
8788 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
8789 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
8791 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
8792 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
8793 Fixes part of bug 3752.
8794 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
8795 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
8796 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
8797 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
8798 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
8799 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
8800 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
8801 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
8802 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
8803 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
8804 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
8805 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
8806 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
8807 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
8808 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
8809 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
8810 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
8812 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8813 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
8814 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
8815 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
8816 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
8817 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
8820 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
8821 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
8822 user. Implements ticket 1692.
8823 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
8824 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
8825 best copy data out of a buffer.
8826 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
8827 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
8828 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
8830 o Minor features (build compatibility):
8831 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
8832 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
8833 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8835 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8836 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8838 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
8839 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
8840 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8841 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
8842 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
8843 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
8844 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8846 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
8847 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
8848 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
8849 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
8850 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
8852 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
8853 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
8854 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
8857 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
8858 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
8859 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
8860 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
8861 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
8862 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
8863 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
8864 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
8865 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
8866 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
8867 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
8868 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8869 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
8870 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
8871 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
8872 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
8873 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
8874 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
8875 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
8878 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8879 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
8880 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
8884 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
8885 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
8886 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
8887 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
8888 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
8889 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
8892 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
8893 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
8894 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
8895 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
8896 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
8897 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
8898 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
8899 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
8900 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
8901 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
8903 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
8904 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
8905 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
8906 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
8907 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
8908 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
8909 many many other features and bugfixes.
8912 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
8913 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
8914 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
8917 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
8918 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
8919 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
8920 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
8921 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
8922 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
8923 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
8924 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
8927 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8930 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
8931 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
8932 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8933 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
8934 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
8935 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
8936 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
8937 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
8938 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
8939 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
8940 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
8941 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
8942 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
8943 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8944 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
8945 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
8946 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
8947 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
8951 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
8952 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
8953 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
8954 up a variety of recently introduced features.
8957 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
8958 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
8959 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
8960 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
8961 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
8962 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
8963 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
8964 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
8965 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
8966 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
8967 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
8968 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
8969 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
8970 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
8971 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
8972 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
8974 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
8975 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
8976 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
8977 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
8978 order. Fixes bug 2798.
8979 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
8980 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
8981 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
8982 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
8983 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
8984 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
8988 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
8989 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
8990 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
8991 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
8993 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
8994 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
8995 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
8996 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
8997 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
8998 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
8999 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
9000 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
9001 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
9002 Implements ticket 3264.
9003 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
9004 implements ticket 3439.
9006 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
9007 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
9008 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
9009 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
9010 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
9011 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
9012 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
9013 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
9014 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
9015 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
9016 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
9017 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
9018 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
9019 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
9020 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
9021 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
9022 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
9023 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
9024 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
9025 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
9026 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
9027 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
9028 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
9029 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
9030 fails. Spotted by coverity.
9031 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
9032 present. Found by coverity.
9033 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
9034 a directory cache that provides them.
9036 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
9037 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
9038 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
9039 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
9040 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
9041 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
9043 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
9044 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
9045 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
9046 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
9047 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
9048 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9049 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
9050 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
9052 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9053 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
9054 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
9055 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
9056 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
9057 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
9058 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
9060 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
9064 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
9065 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
9066 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
9069 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
9070 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
9071 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
9072 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
9075 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
9076 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
9077 discovered by katmagic.
9078 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
9079 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
9080 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
9081 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9082 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
9083 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
9084 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
9085 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9086 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
9087 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
9088 fixes part of bug 3465.
9089 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
9090 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
9094 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9097 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
9098 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
9099 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
9100 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
9101 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
9104 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
9105 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
9106 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
9107 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
9108 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
9111 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
9112 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
9113 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
9114 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
9115 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
9116 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
9119 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
9120 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
9121 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
9122 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
9123 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
9124 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
9125 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
9126 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
9127 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
9128 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
9129 fixes part of bug 3407.
9130 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
9131 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
9132 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
9133 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
9134 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
9135 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
9136 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
9137 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
9138 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
9139 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
9141 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
9142 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
9143 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
9144 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
9147 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9149 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9150 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
9151 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
9153 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
9155 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
9158 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
9159 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
9160 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
9161 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
9162 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
9163 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
9167 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
9168 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
9169 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
9170 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9171 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
9172 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
9173 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
9175 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
9176 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
9177 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
9178 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
9179 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
9180 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
9181 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
9182 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
9183 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
9184 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
9185 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
9186 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
9187 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
9188 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
9189 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
9190 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
9191 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
9192 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
9193 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
9197 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
9198 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
9199 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
9200 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
9201 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
9202 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
9203 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
9204 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
9205 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
9209 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
9210 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
9211 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
9213 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
9215 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
9216 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
9217 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
9218 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
9219 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9220 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
9221 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
9222 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
9223 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
9225 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
9226 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
9227 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
9228 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
9229 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
9230 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
9232 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
9233 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
9235 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
9236 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
9237 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9240 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
9241 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
9242 Resolves ticket 3252.
9243 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
9244 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
9245 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
9246 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
9247 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
9248 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
9251 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
9252 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
9255 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
9256 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
9257 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
9260 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
9261 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
9262 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
9263 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
9264 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
9267 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
9268 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
9269 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
9270 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
9271 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
9272 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
9273 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
9274 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
9275 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
9279 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
9280 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
9281 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
9282 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
9283 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
9285 o Security/privacy fixes:
9286 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
9287 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
9288 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
9289 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
9290 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
9291 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
9292 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
9293 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
9294 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
9295 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
9296 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
9297 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
9298 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
9299 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
9300 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9303 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
9304 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
9305 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
9306 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
9307 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
9308 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
9309 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
9310 part of ticket 3076.
9311 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
9312 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
9313 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
9317 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
9318 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
9319 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
9320 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
9321 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
9322 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
9323 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
9324 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
9326 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
9327 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
9328 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
9329 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
9330 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
9331 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
9332 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
9333 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
9334 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
9335 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
9336 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
9337 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
9338 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9341 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
9342 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
9343 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
9344 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
9345 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
9346 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
9347 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
9349 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
9350 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
9351 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
9352 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
9353 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
9354 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
9355 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
9356 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
9357 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
9358 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
9359 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
9360 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
9361 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
9362 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
9363 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
9364 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
9366 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
9367 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
9369 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
9370 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
9372 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
9373 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
9375 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
9376 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
9377 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9379 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
9380 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
9381 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
9382 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
9383 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9384 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
9385 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
9386 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
9387 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
9388 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
9389 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
9391 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
9392 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
9393 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
9394 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
9395 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
9396 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
9397 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
9398 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
9399 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
9400 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
9401 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9402 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
9403 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
9407 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
9408 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
9409 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
9413 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
9414 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
9415 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
9416 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
9417 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
9418 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
9420 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
9421 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
9422 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
9425 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
9426 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
9427 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
9428 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
9429 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
9430 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
9431 zero-copy transports where available.
9432 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
9433 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
9434 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
9435 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
9436 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
9437 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
9438 debug it as it breaks.
9439 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
9440 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
9441 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
9442 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
9443 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
9444 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
9445 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
9446 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
9447 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
9448 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
9449 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
9450 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
9451 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
9452 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
9453 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
9454 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
9455 PortForwarding option.
9456 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
9457 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
9458 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
9459 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
9460 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
9461 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
9462 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
9465 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
9466 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
9467 Implements enhancement 1668.
9468 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
9470 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
9471 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
9472 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
9473 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
9474 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
9475 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
9476 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
9478 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
9479 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
9480 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
9481 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
9482 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
9483 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
9484 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
9486 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
9487 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
9488 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
9489 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
9490 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
9491 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
9492 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
9494 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
9495 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
9496 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
9497 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
9498 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
9499 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
9500 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
9501 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
9502 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
9503 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
9504 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
9505 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
9506 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
9507 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
9508 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
9511 o Minor features (controller):
9512 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
9513 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
9514 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
9515 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
9516 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
9517 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
9518 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
9521 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
9522 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
9523 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
9524 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
9525 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
9526 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
9527 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
9528 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
9530 o Minor packaging issues:
9531 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
9532 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
9534 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9535 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
9536 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
9537 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
9538 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
9539 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
9540 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
9541 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
9542 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
9543 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
9544 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
9545 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
9546 our library structure used to force them to link it.
9549 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
9550 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
9551 are no longer in use as servers.
9553 o Documentation fixes:
9554 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
9555 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
9556 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
9560 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
9561 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
9562 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
9563 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
9564 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
9565 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
9566 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
9567 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
9568 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
9569 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
9572 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
9573 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
9574 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
9575 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
9576 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
9577 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
9578 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
9579 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
9580 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
9581 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9582 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
9583 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
9584 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9585 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
9586 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
9587 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
9589 o Security and stability fixes:
9590 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
9591 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
9592 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
9593 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
9594 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
9595 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
9596 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
9597 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
9598 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
9599 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
9600 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
9601 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
9602 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9603 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
9604 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
9605 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9608 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
9609 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
9610 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
9611 contributions to the network.
9613 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
9614 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
9615 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
9616 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
9617 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
9618 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
9619 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
9620 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
9621 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
9622 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
9623 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
9624 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
9625 connections to directory servers.
9626 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
9627 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
9628 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
9629 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
9630 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
9631 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
9632 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
9633 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
9634 information, or fetch directory information.
9635 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
9636 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
9637 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
9638 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
9639 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
9640 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
9641 unless you really want your Tor to break.
9642 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
9643 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
9644 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
9645 - When StrictNodes is 1:
9646 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
9647 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
9648 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
9649 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
9650 reachability self-tests.
9651 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
9652 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
9653 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
9654 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
9655 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9656 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
9657 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
9659 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
9660 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9661 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
9662 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
9663 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
9664 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9665 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
9666 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
9667 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
9668 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
9669 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
9672 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
9673 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
9674 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
9675 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
9676 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
9677 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
9678 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
9679 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
9680 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
9681 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
9682 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
9683 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9684 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
9685 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
9686 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
9687 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
9688 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
9690 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
9691 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
9692 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
9693 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
9694 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9695 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
9696 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9697 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
9698 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
9699 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
9700 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
9701 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
9702 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
9703 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
9704 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
9705 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9706 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
9707 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
9708 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
9709 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
9712 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
9713 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
9714 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
9715 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
9716 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
9717 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
9718 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
9719 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
9720 Required by fix for bug 3000.
9721 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
9722 by fix for bug 3000.
9723 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
9724 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
9726 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9727 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
9728 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
9729 send a body too). Since only server versions before
9730 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
9731 keep the workaround in place.
9732 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
9733 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
9734 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
9735 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
9736 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
9737 want to do it differently.
9738 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
9739 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
9740 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
9741 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
9742 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
9746 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
9747 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
9748 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
9749 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
9750 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
9753 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
9754 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
9755 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
9756 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
9757 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
9759 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
9760 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
9761 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
9762 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
9763 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
9764 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
9765 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
9766 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
9767 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
9768 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
9769 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
9770 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
9773 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
9774 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
9775 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
9776 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
9777 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
9778 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
9779 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
9781 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
9782 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
9783 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
9784 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
9785 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
9786 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
9787 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
9788 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
9789 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
9790 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
9791 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
9792 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
9793 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
9794 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
9795 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
9796 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
9797 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
9798 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
9799 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
9800 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
9801 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
9802 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
9803 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9806 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
9808 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
9809 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
9810 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
9812 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
9813 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
9814 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
9815 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
9817 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
9818 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
9819 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
9820 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9823 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
9824 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
9826 o Documentation changes:
9827 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
9828 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
9830 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
9833 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
9834 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
9835 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
9836 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
9837 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
9838 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
9841 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9842 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
9843 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
9844 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
9845 the rest of bug 1074.
9846 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
9847 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
9848 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9849 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
9850 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
9851 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
9852 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9853 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
9854 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
9855 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
9856 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
9857 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
9858 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
9859 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9862 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
9863 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
9864 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
9865 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
9866 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
9867 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
9868 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
9869 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
9870 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
9871 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
9872 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
9873 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
9874 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
9875 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
9877 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9878 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
9879 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
9880 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
9881 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
9882 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
9884 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
9885 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
9886 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
9887 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
9888 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
9889 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
9890 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
9891 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
9892 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
9894 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
9895 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
9896 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
9897 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
9898 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
9899 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
9900 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
9901 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
9902 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
9903 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
9904 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
9905 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
9906 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
9907 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9908 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
9909 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
9911 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
9912 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
9913 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
9914 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
9915 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
9916 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
9918 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
9919 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
9920 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
9922 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9923 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
9924 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
9925 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
9926 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
9927 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
9928 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
9930 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
9931 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
9932 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
9933 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
9934 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
9938 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
9939 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
9940 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
9941 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
9942 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
9943 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
9944 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
9945 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
9946 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
9947 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
9948 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
9949 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
9951 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9953 o Minor features (log subsystem):
9954 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
9955 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
9956 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
9958 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
9959 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
9961 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
9962 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
9963 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
9966 o Packaging changes:
9967 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
9968 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
9969 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
9972 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
9973 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
9974 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
9975 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
9976 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
9977 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
9980 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
9981 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
9982 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
9983 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
9984 the rest of bug 1074.
9985 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
9986 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9988 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
9989 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
9990 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
9991 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
9992 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
9993 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
9994 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9997 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
9999 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10002 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
10003 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
10004 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
10005 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
10006 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
10007 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
10008 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
10009 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
10010 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
10011 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
10012 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10014 o Packaging changes:
10015 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
10016 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
10017 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
10018 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
10019 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
10020 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
10023 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
10024 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
10025 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
10026 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
10027 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
10028 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
10031 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
10032 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10033 Found by "piebeer".
10034 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
10035 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
10036 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
10037 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
10040 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
10042 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
10043 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
10044 Implements ticket 2432.
10047 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
10048 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
10049 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
10052 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
10053 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
10054 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
10055 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
10056 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
10057 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
10059 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
10060 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
10061 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
10062 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
10064 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
10065 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
10066 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
10067 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
10068 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
10069 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
10070 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
10071 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
10073 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
10074 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
10075 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
10076 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
10077 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
10078 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
10079 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
10080 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
10081 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
10082 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
10083 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
10084 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
10085 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
10086 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
10090 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
10091 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
10092 bug reported by doorss.
10093 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
10094 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
10095 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10096 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
10097 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
10099 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
10100 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
10101 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
10102 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
10103 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10105 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
10106 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10107 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
10109 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
10110 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
10111 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
10112 Automake 1.7 or later.
10113 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
10114 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
10115 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
10116 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
10118 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
10119 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
10120 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
10123 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
10124 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
10125 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
10126 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
10128 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
10129 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
10130 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
10131 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
10132 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
10133 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
10134 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
10135 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
10136 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
10138 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
10139 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
10140 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
10143 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
10144 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
10145 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
10146 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
10147 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
10148 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
10149 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
10150 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
10151 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
10152 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
10153 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
10154 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
10155 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
10157 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
10158 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
10162 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
10163 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
10164 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
10165 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
10166 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
10168 o Major bugfixes (security):
10169 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
10170 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
10171 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
10173 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
10174 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
10175 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
10176 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
10177 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
10178 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
10179 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
10180 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
10182 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10183 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
10184 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
10185 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
10186 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
10187 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
10188 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
10189 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
10190 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
10191 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
10192 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
10193 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
10194 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
10195 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
10198 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10199 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
10200 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
10201 bug reported by doorss.
10202 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
10203 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
10204 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10205 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
10206 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
10208 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
10209 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
10210 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
10211 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
10212 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
10213 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
10214 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
10215 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
10216 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
10219 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10220 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
10223 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
10224 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
10225 Automake 1.7 or later.
10228 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
10229 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
10230 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
10231 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
10232 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
10235 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
10236 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
10237 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
10238 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
10239 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
10240 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
10241 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
10242 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
10243 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
10244 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
10245 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
10247 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
10248 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
10249 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
10250 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
10252 o Directory authority changes:
10253 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
10256 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
10257 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
10258 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
10259 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
10260 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
10261 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
10262 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
10263 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
10264 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
10267 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10268 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
10269 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
10270 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
10271 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
10272 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
10273 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
10274 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
10275 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
10276 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
10280 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
10281 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
10282 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
10283 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
10287 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
10288 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
10289 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
10290 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
10292 o Directory authority changes:
10293 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
10296 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10299 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
10300 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
10301 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
10302 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
10303 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
10306 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
10307 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
10308 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
10309 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
10310 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10311 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
10312 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
10313 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
10314 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
10315 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10316 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
10317 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
10318 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
10319 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
10320 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
10321 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
10322 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
10323 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
10324 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
10325 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
10326 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
10327 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
10328 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
10331 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
10332 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
10333 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
10334 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
10336 o New directory authorities:
10337 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
10341 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
10342 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
10343 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
10345 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
10346 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
10347 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
10348 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
10349 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
10350 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
10352 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
10353 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
10354 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
10357 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
10358 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
10359 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
10360 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
10361 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
10362 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
10363 Patch from mingw-san.
10366 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
10367 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
10368 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
10369 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
10370 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
10371 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
10374 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
10375 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
10376 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
10379 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
10380 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
10381 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
10382 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
10383 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10386 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
10387 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
10388 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
10389 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
10390 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
10391 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
10392 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
10393 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
10394 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
10397 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
10398 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
10399 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
10400 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
10401 to a stable release.
10404 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
10405 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
10406 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
10407 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
10408 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
10409 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
10410 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
10411 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
10412 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10413 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
10414 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
10415 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
10416 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
10417 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
10418 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
10419 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
10420 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
10421 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
10422 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
10423 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
10424 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
10425 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
10426 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
10427 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
10428 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
10429 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
10430 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
10431 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
10432 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
10433 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
10434 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
10437 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10438 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
10439 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
10440 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
10441 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
10442 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
10443 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
10444 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
10445 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
10446 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
10447 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
10448 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
10449 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
10450 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10451 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
10452 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
10453 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
10455 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
10456 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
10457 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
10458 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
10459 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
10461 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
10462 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
10463 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
10464 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
10467 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
10468 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
10469 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
10470 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
10471 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
10472 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
10473 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
10474 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10476 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10477 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
10478 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
10479 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
10480 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
10481 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
10482 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
10483 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
10484 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
10485 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
10486 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
10487 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
10488 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
10489 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
10490 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
10493 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
10494 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
10495 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
10496 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
10497 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
10498 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
10499 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
10500 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
10501 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
10504 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
10505 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
10506 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
10507 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
10508 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
10510 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
10511 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
10512 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
10513 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
10514 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
10515 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
10516 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10517 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
10518 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
10519 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
10520 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
10521 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
10522 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
10523 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
10525 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10526 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
10528 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
10529 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
10530 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
10531 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
10532 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
10533 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
10534 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
10535 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
10536 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
10537 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
10538 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
10539 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
10540 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
10541 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
10542 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
10543 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
10544 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
10545 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10547 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
10548 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
10549 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
10550 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
10551 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
10552 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
10553 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
10554 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
10555 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
10556 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
10557 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
10558 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
10559 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
10561 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
10562 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
10563 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
10564 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10567 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
10568 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
10569 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
10570 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
10571 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
10572 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
10573 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
10574 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
10575 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
10576 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
10577 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
10578 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
10579 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
10580 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
10581 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
10582 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
10583 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
10584 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
10585 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
10588 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10589 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
10590 based on the time during which we were active and not in
10591 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
10592 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
10593 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
10594 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
10595 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10597 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10598 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
10599 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
10600 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
10601 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
10602 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
10603 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
10604 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
10605 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
10606 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
10609 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
10610 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
10611 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
10612 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
10614 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
10615 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
10616 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
10617 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
10618 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
10619 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
10620 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
10621 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
10622 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
10623 the longest-lived bug prize.
10624 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
10625 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
10626 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
10627 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
10628 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
10629 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
10631 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
10632 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
10633 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
10634 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
10635 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
10636 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
10640 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10641 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
10642 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
10643 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
10644 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
10645 got suppressed since the last warning.
10646 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
10647 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
10648 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
10649 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
10650 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
10651 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
10652 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
10653 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
10654 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
10655 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
10656 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
10657 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
10658 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
10659 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
10660 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
10661 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
10662 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
10663 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
10664 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
10666 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
10667 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
10668 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
10670 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10671 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
10672 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
10673 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
10674 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
10675 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
10676 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
10677 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
10678 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
10679 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
10680 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
10681 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
10682 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
10683 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
10684 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
10686 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
10687 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
10688 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
10689 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
10690 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
10691 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10692 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
10694 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
10695 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
10696 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
10697 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
10698 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
10701 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10702 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
10703 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
10704 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
10705 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
10706 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
10707 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
10708 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
10709 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
10710 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
10711 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
10712 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
10713 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
10714 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
10715 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
10716 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
10717 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
10718 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
10721 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
10724 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
10725 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
10726 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
10727 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
10728 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
10732 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
10733 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
10734 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
10735 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
10736 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
10737 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
10738 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
10739 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
10740 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
10741 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
10742 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
10743 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
10744 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
10745 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
10746 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
10747 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
10748 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
10751 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
10752 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
10753 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
10754 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
10755 they first get the Guard flag.
10756 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
10760 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10761 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
10762 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
10763 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
10764 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
10765 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
10766 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
10767 Patch from mingw-san.
10768 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
10769 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
10771 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
10772 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
10773 Implements enhancement 1790.
10775 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
10776 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
10777 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
10778 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
10779 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
10780 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
10781 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
10782 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
10783 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
10784 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
10785 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
10786 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
10787 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
10788 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
10789 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
10790 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
10791 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
10792 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
10793 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
10794 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
10796 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
10797 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
10798 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
10799 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
10800 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
10801 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
10802 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
10803 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
10804 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
10805 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
10806 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
10807 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
10808 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
10810 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
10811 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
10812 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
10813 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
10814 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
10815 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10817 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
10818 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
10819 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
10820 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
10821 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
10822 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
10823 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
10824 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
10825 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
10826 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
10827 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
10828 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
10830 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
10831 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
10832 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
10833 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
10834 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
10835 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
10836 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
10838 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
10840 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
10841 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10842 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
10843 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
10844 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
10845 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
10847 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10848 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
10849 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
10850 structures and defines in or.h for now.
10851 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
10852 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
10853 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
10854 statistics code to be more easily tested.
10855 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
10856 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
10857 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
10860 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
10861 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
10862 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
10863 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
10864 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
10865 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
10869 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
10870 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
10871 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
10872 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
10873 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
10874 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
10875 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
10876 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
10877 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
10878 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
10879 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
10880 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
10881 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
10883 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
10884 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
10885 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
10886 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
10887 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
10888 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
10889 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
10890 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
10891 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
10892 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
10893 can be controlled by the consensus.
10896 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
10897 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
10898 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
10899 more accurate data for many African countries.
10900 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
10901 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
10902 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
10903 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
10904 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
10905 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
10906 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
10907 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
10908 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
10909 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
10910 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
10911 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
10913 o New directory authorities:
10914 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
10918 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
10919 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
10920 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
10921 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
10922 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
10923 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
10924 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
10925 what should go in a patch.
10926 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
10927 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
10928 over our stored history.
10929 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
10930 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
10931 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
10932 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
10933 file. Fixes bug 1296.
10934 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
10935 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
10936 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
10940 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
10942 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
10943 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
10944 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
10945 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
10946 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
10947 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
10948 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
10949 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
10950 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
10951 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
10952 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
10953 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10954 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
10955 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
10956 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
10957 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
10958 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
10959 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
10960 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
10961 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
10962 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
10963 two-hop circuits are actually created.
10964 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
10965 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
10966 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
10967 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10970 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
10971 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
10972 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
10973 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
10974 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
10976 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
10977 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
10980 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
10981 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
10982 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
10983 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
10984 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
10985 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
10986 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
10987 their directory fetches over TLS).
10988 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
10989 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
10990 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
10991 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
10992 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
10993 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
10994 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
10995 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
10998 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
10999 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
11003 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
11004 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11005 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
11006 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
11007 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
11008 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
11009 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11012 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
11013 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
11014 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
11015 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
11016 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
11019 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
11020 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
11021 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
11022 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
11023 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
11024 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
11025 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
11026 their directory fetches over TLS).
11029 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
11030 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
11032 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
11033 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
11034 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
11035 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
11036 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
11037 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
11038 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
11039 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
11040 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
11041 hour of their uptime.
11044 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
11045 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
11046 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
11050 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
11051 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
11052 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
11053 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
11054 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
11055 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
11057 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
11058 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
11059 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
11061 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
11062 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
11066 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
11067 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
11068 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
11072 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
11073 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
11074 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
11077 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
11078 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
11079 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
11080 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
11081 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
11082 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
11083 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
11084 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
11085 about the option without breaking older ones.
11086 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
11087 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
11088 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
11089 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
11092 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
11093 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
11094 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
11095 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
11097 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
11098 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
11099 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
11102 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
11103 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
11105 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
11106 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
11107 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
11108 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
11109 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
11110 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
11111 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11112 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
11113 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
11114 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
11115 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
11118 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
11119 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11120 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
11121 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
11122 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
11123 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
11124 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11127 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
11128 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
11129 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
11130 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
11131 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
11132 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
11135 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
11136 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
11137 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
11138 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
11140 o Major features (performance):
11141 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
11142 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
11143 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
11144 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
11145 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
11146 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
11147 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
11149 o Minor features (performance):
11150 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
11151 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
11152 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
11153 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
11154 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
11158 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
11159 speeds up the build considerably.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
11162 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
11163 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11164 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
11165 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11166 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
11167 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
11168 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11170 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
11171 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
11172 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
11174 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
11175 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
11176 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
11177 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
11179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11180 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
11181 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
11182 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
11183 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
11184 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
11187 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
11188 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
11189 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
11191 o Directory authority changes:
11192 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
11193 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
11194 service directory authority) from the list.
11197 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
11198 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
11199 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
11200 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
11201 libraries in a security patch.
11202 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
11203 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
11204 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
11205 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
11207 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
11208 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
11209 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
11210 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
11211 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
11212 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
11213 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
11216 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
11217 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
11218 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
11219 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
11220 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
11221 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
11222 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
11223 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
11224 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
11225 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
11226 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
11227 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
11228 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
11230 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
11231 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
11232 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
11233 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
11234 control-spec.txt said they were.
11235 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
11236 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
11237 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
11238 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
11239 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11241 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11242 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
11243 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
11244 produce nicer HTML.
11245 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
11246 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
11247 iPhone SDK versions.
11248 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
11249 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
11250 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
11251 projects directory in svn.
11252 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
11253 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
11254 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
11255 high latency links.
11258 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
11259 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
11260 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
11262 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
11263 to the circuit build timeout.
11264 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
11265 arguments we do not recognize.
11266 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
11267 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
11268 open() without checking it.
11271 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
11272 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
11273 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
11274 several minor potential security bugs.
11277 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
11278 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
11279 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
11280 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
11281 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
11282 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
11283 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
11286 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
11287 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
11289 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
11290 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
11291 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
11292 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
11296 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
11297 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
11301 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
11302 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
11303 customized patches to run/build.
11306 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
11307 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
11308 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
11311 o Major bugfixes (performance):
11312 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
11313 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
11314 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
11315 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
11316 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
11317 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
11318 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
11321 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
11322 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
11323 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
11324 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
11325 libraries in a security patch.
11326 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
11327 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
11328 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
11329 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
11332 o Directory authority changes:
11333 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
11334 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
11335 service directory authority) from the list.
11338 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
11339 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
11342 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
11343 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
11344 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
11345 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
11346 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
11349 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
11350 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
11351 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
11355 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
11356 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
11357 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
11358 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
11359 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11362 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
11363 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
11364 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
11368 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
11369 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
11370 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
11371 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
11372 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
11374 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
11375 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
11377 o Directory authority changes:
11378 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
11381 o Major features (performance):
11382 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
11383 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
11384 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
11385 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
11386 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
11387 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
11388 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
11389 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
11390 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
11391 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
11392 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
11393 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
11394 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
11396 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
11397 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
11398 but never per-conn write limits.
11399 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
11400 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
11401 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
11402 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
11404 o Major features (relay selection options):
11405 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
11406 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
11407 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
11408 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
11409 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
11410 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
11411 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
11413 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
11414 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
11416 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
11417 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
11418 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
11419 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
11420 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
11421 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
11422 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
11423 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
11424 the network changes.
11427 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
11428 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
11429 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11432 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
11433 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
11434 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
11435 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
11436 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
11437 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
11438 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
11439 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
11440 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
11441 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
11442 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
11443 generated while acting as a relay.
11444 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
11445 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
11446 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
11447 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
11448 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
11449 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
11451 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
11452 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
11453 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11454 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
11455 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
11456 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
11459 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
11460 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
11461 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
11463 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
11464 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
11465 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
11467 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
11468 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
11470 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
11471 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
11472 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
11474 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
11475 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
11478 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11479 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
11480 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
11481 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
11482 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
11483 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
11484 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
11485 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
11486 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
11488 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
11491 o Removed features:
11492 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
11493 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
11494 hidden service usage.
11497 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
11498 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
11499 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
11500 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
11501 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
11503 o Directory authority changes:
11504 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
11508 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
11509 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
11510 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11513 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
11514 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
11515 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
11516 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
11517 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
11520 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
11521 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
11522 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
11523 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
11524 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
11525 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
11526 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
11529 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
11530 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
11531 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11532 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
11533 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
11534 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
11536 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
11537 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
11540 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
11541 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
11542 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
11543 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
11544 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
11545 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
11548 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
11549 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
11550 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
11552 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
11553 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
11554 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
11555 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
11556 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
11557 download consensus + microdescriptors".
11558 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
11559 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
11560 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
11561 hash algorithm in the future.
11562 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
11563 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
11564 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
11565 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
11566 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
11567 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
11568 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
11569 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
11570 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
11573 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
11574 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
11575 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
11576 won't work unless we say we are.
11579 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
11580 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
11581 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
11582 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
11583 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
11584 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
11585 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
11586 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
11587 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11588 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
11589 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
11590 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
11591 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
11592 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
11593 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
11594 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
11595 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
11596 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
11597 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
11598 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
11599 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
11600 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
11603 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
11604 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
11605 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
11606 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11608 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
11609 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
11611 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
11612 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
11613 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
11614 in the Vidalia Settings window.
11617 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
11618 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
11619 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
11620 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
11621 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
11623 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
11624 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
11626 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
11627 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
11628 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
11631 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
11632 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
11633 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
11635 o New directory authorities:
11636 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
11638 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
11641 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
11642 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
11644 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
11645 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
11646 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11647 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
11648 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
11649 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
11650 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11651 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11652 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
11653 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
11654 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
11655 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
11656 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
11657 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
11658 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
11659 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
11660 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
11662 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
11663 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
11664 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
11666 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
11667 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
11671 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
11672 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
11673 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
11674 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
11675 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
11678 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
11679 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
11682 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
11684 o Directory authorities:
11685 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
11689 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
11690 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
11691 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
11692 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
11693 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
11696 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
11697 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
11698 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
11699 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
11701 o New directory authorities:
11702 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
11705 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
11706 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
11707 SSL handshake issues.
11708 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
11709 during the TLS handshake.
11710 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
11711 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
11712 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
11713 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
11714 none of which are very big.
11717 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
11719 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
11720 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11721 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
11722 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
11723 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11724 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
11725 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
11726 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
11729 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11730 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
11731 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
11732 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
11733 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
11736 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
11737 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11740 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
11741 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
11744 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
11745 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
11746 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11749 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
11750 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
11751 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
11752 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
11753 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
11754 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
11757 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
11758 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
11759 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
11760 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
11761 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
11762 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
11763 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
11764 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
11765 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
11766 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
11767 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
11768 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
11769 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
11770 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
11771 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
11772 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
11773 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
11774 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
11777 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
11778 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
11782 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
11783 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
11784 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11785 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
11786 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
11787 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
11788 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11789 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
11790 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
11791 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
11792 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11793 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11794 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
11795 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
11796 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
11797 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
11798 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
11799 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
11800 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
11801 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
11802 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
11804 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
11805 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
11806 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
11807 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11808 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
11809 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
11811 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
11812 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
11813 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
11816 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
11817 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
11818 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
11819 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
11820 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
11821 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
11824 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
11825 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
11826 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
11827 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
11828 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
11831 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
11832 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
11833 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
11836 o New directory authorities:
11837 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
11841 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
11842 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
11843 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
11844 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
11845 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
11848 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
11849 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
11850 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
11851 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
11852 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
11855 o New options for gathering stats safely:
11856 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
11857 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
11858 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
11859 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
11860 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
11861 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
11862 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
11863 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
11864 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
11866 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
11867 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
11868 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
11869 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
11871 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
11872 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
11873 their extra-info documents.
11876 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
11877 source files Tor was built with.
11878 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
11879 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
11880 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
11881 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
11882 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
11883 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
11885 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
11886 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
11887 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
11888 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
11889 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
11891 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
11892 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
11895 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
11896 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
11897 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
11898 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
11899 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
11901 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
11902 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
11904 o Deprecated and removed features:
11905 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
11906 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
11907 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
11908 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
11909 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
11910 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
11911 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
11912 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
11914 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
11915 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
11916 via application-level web tricks.
11918 o Packaging changes:
11919 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
11920 installer bundles. See
11921 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
11922 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
11923 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
11924 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
11925 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
11926 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
11927 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
11928 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
11929 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
11930 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
11931 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
11932 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
11935 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
11936 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
11937 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
11940 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
11941 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
11942 part of patch provided by "optimist".
11945 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
11946 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
11947 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
11948 and confuse fewer users.
11951 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
11952 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
11953 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
11954 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
11955 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
11956 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
11957 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
11960 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
11961 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
11962 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
11963 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
11964 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
11965 other features and bug fixes.
11968 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
11971 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
11972 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
11973 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
11974 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
11975 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
11978 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
11979 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
11980 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
11981 failure message (oops).
11984 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
11985 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
11986 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
11987 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
11991 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
11992 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
11993 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
11994 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
11995 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
11996 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
11997 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11998 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
11999 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
12000 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
12001 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
12002 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
12003 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
12004 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
12005 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
12008 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
12009 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
12010 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
12011 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
12012 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
12013 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
12014 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
12015 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
12016 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
12017 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
12018 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
12019 Workaround for bug 1024.
12020 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
12024 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
12025 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
12026 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
12029 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
12031 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
12032 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
12033 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
12034 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
12035 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
12038 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
12039 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
12040 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
12041 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
12042 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
12043 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
12044 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
12045 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
12046 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
12047 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
12050 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
12051 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
12052 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
12053 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
12054 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
12055 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
12056 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
12057 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
12060 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
12061 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
12062 a bunch of minor bugs.
12065 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
12066 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
12067 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
12069 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
12070 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
12071 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
12072 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
12074 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
12078 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
12079 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
12080 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
12082 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12083 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
12085 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
12086 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
12088 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
12089 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
12090 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
12091 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
12092 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
12093 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
12094 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
12095 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
12097 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
12098 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
12099 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
12101 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
12102 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
12103 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
12104 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
12105 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
12109 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
12110 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
12111 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
12112 of more minor bugs.
12114 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12115 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
12116 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
12117 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
12119 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12120 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
12121 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
12122 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12123 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
12124 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
12125 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
12126 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
12127 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
12128 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
12129 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
12130 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12131 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
12132 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
12133 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
12134 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
12135 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
12137 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
12138 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
12139 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
12140 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
12143 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
12144 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12147 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
12148 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
12149 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
12150 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
12151 addresses to fall out of the directory.
12154 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
12155 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
12156 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
12157 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
12159 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
12160 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
12161 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
12162 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
12163 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
12164 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
12165 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
12166 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
12167 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
12168 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
12169 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
12170 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
12171 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
12172 patch by Sebastian.
12173 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
12174 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
12177 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
12178 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
12179 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
12180 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
12181 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
12182 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
12184 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
12185 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
12186 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
12187 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
12188 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
12190 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
12193 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
12194 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
12196 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
12197 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
12198 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12199 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12200 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
12201 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
12203 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
12204 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12205 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
12206 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
12207 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
12208 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12209 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
12210 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
12211 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
12212 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
12213 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
12214 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
12218 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
12219 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
12220 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
12223 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
12224 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
12225 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12227 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
12228 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
12229 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
12230 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
12231 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
12232 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
12233 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
12234 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
12235 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
12236 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
12237 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
12238 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
12239 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
12240 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
12241 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
12242 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
12243 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
12244 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
12245 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
12246 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
12247 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
12248 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
12249 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
12250 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
12251 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
12252 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
12254 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
12255 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
12256 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
12257 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
12258 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
12259 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
12260 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
12261 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
12262 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
12263 of 0. Suggested by lark.
12265 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
12266 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
12267 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
12268 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
12269 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
12272 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
12274 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
12275 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
12276 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
12277 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
12280 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
12281 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
12282 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
12283 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
12284 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
12286 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
12287 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
12288 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
12289 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
12292 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
12293 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12294 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
12295 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
12296 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
12297 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
12298 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
12299 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
12302 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
12303 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
12304 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
12305 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
12308 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
12309 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
12310 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
12311 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
12312 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
12313 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
12316 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
12317 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12318 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
12319 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
12320 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
12321 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12324 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
12325 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
12326 reported by Matt Edman.
12327 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
12329 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
12330 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
12331 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
12332 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
12334 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
12335 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12336 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
12337 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12338 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
12339 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
12340 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
12341 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
12342 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
12343 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
12344 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
12345 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
12346 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
12347 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12348 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
12349 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12350 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
12351 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
12352 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12355 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
12356 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
12357 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
12358 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
12361 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
12362 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
12363 the letter of C99's alias rules.
12366 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
12367 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
12368 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
12369 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
12371 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
12372 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
12373 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
12376 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
12377 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
12380 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
12381 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
12382 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
12383 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
12384 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
12385 reported by "wood".
12386 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
12387 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
12388 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
12389 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
12390 identify a connection.
12391 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
12392 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
12393 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
12394 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
12395 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
12396 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
12397 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12398 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
12399 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
12400 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
12402 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
12403 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
12404 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
12405 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
12406 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
12407 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
12408 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
12411 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
12412 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
12414 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
12415 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
12416 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
12417 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
12418 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
12419 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
12420 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12421 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
12423 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
12424 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
12425 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
12426 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
12427 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
12428 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
12429 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
12430 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
12431 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
12432 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
12433 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
12434 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
12435 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
12436 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
12437 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12438 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
12439 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
12440 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12441 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
12442 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
12443 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
12444 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
12445 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
12446 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
12447 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
12448 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
12449 840. Patch from rovv.
12450 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
12451 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
12452 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
12454 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
12455 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
12456 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
12457 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
12458 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
12459 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
12460 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
12462 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12463 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
12464 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
12467 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
12468 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
12470 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
12471 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
12472 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
12473 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
12474 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
12475 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
12476 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
12477 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
12478 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
12480 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
12482 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
12483 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
12487 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
12488 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
12489 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
12490 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
12491 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
12492 have had some time to upgrade.)
12495 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
12496 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
12499 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
12500 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
12501 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
12502 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
12503 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
12506 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
12507 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
12509 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
12510 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
12511 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
12512 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
12513 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
12514 entirely. Patch from coderman.
12517 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
12518 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12519 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
12520 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
12521 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
12522 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
12523 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
12527 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
12528 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
12529 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
12530 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
12531 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
12532 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
12533 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
12536 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
12537 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
12538 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
12539 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
12540 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
12542 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
12543 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
12544 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
12545 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
12546 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
12547 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
12548 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12549 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
12550 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
12551 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
12555 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
12556 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
12557 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
12559 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
12560 without support for deprecated functions.
12561 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
12563 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12564 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
12565 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
12566 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
12567 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
12568 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
12569 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
12570 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
12571 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
12572 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
12573 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
12574 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
12575 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
12576 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
12577 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
12578 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
12579 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
12580 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
12581 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
12582 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
12583 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
12584 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
12585 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
12587 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
12588 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
12589 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
12590 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
12591 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
12592 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
12594 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
12595 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
12596 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
12597 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
12598 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
12600 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
12601 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
12602 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
12604 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
12605 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
12608 o Deprecated and removed features:
12609 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
12610 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
12611 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
12614 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12615 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
12616 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
12617 with log.h on Android.
12618 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
12619 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
12622 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
12623 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
12625 o New directory authorities:
12626 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
12630 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
12631 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
12632 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
12633 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
12634 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
12635 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12638 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
12639 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
12640 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
12641 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
12642 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
12643 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
12644 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
12645 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
12646 reported by "wood".
12647 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
12648 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
12649 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
12650 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
12653 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
12654 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
12656 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
12657 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
12658 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
12659 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
12660 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
12661 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
12662 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
12663 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
12664 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
12665 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
12666 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
12667 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
12668 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
12669 Implements proposal 148.
12670 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
12671 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
12672 system to do it for us.
12673 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
12674 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
12675 this fix will be slightly helpful.
12676 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
12677 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
12678 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
12679 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
12680 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
12681 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
12682 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
12683 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
12684 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
12687 o Minor features (controller):
12688 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
12689 been fetched and validated.
12690 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
12691 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
12692 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
12693 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
12694 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
12695 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
12698 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
12699 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12700 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
12701 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
12702 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
12704 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
12705 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
12706 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12707 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
12708 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
12709 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
12710 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
12711 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
12712 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
12714 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12715 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
12716 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
12717 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
12718 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
12719 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
12720 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
12721 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
12723 o Deprecated and removed features:
12724 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
12726 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
12727 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
12728 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
12730 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12731 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
12732 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
12734 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
12735 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
12736 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
12737 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
12738 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
12739 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
12742 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
12743 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
12744 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
12745 fixes a variety of other issues.
12748 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
12749 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
12750 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
12751 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
12754 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
12755 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
12756 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
12757 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
12760 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
12761 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12762 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
12766 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
12768 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
12769 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
12770 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
12771 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
12772 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
12773 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
12774 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
12776 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
12777 rest, and don't automatically fail.
12778 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
12779 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12780 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
12781 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
12783 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
12784 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
12785 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
12786 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
12787 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
12788 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
12789 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
12790 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
12791 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
12792 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
12794 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
12798 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
12799 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
12800 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
12802 o Minor features (controller):
12803 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
12807 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
12808 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
12809 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
12810 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
12811 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
12812 variety of other issues.
12815 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
12816 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
12817 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
12818 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
12819 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
12820 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
12821 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
12822 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
12823 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
12824 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
12825 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
12826 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
12829 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
12830 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12832 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
12833 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
12834 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
12835 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
12836 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
12837 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
12838 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12839 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
12840 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
12841 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
12842 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
12843 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
12844 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
12845 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
12846 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
12850 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
12851 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
12852 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
12853 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
12854 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
12855 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
12856 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
12857 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
12858 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
12859 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
12860 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
12861 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
12862 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
12863 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
12864 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
12865 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
12866 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
12867 list. It has been gone for many months.
12868 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
12869 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
12870 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
12873 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12874 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
12875 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
12878 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
12879 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
12880 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
12881 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
12882 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
12883 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
12884 variety of other issues.
12887 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
12888 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
12889 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
12890 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
12891 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
12892 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
12893 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
12894 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
12895 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
12896 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
12897 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
12898 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
12899 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
12900 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
12903 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
12904 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
12905 Suggested by Lucky Green.
12906 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
12907 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
12908 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
12909 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
12910 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
12911 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
12913 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
12914 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
12916 o Hidden service performance improvements:
12917 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
12918 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
12919 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
12920 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
12921 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
12922 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
12923 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
12924 faster after restart.
12927 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
12928 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
12929 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
12930 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
12931 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
12932 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
12933 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
12934 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
12935 840. Patch from rovv.
12936 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
12937 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
12938 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
12939 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
12940 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
12941 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
12942 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
12943 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
12944 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
12946 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
12947 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
12948 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
12949 have already been marked for close.
12950 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
12951 introduction points.
12952 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
12953 memory performance during directory parsing.
12954 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
12955 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
12956 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
12957 because of a pending download.
12960 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
12961 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
12962 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
12963 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12966 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
12967 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
12968 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
12969 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
12970 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
12971 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
12972 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
12973 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
12974 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
12975 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
12976 lookups more reliable.
12977 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
12978 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
12979 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
12980 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
12981 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
12982 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
12983 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
12986 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
12987 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
12988 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12989 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
12990 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
12991 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
12992 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
12993 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
12994 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
12995 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
12996 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
12998 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
12999 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
13000 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
13001 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
13002 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
13003 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13004 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
13005 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
13006 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13009 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
13010 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
13011 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
13012 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
13013 locked down these days.
13014 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
13015 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
13016 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
13017 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
13018 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
13020 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
13021 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
13022 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
13023 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
13024 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
13025 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
13026 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
13027 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
13028 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
13029 people find host:port too confusing.
13030 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
13031 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
13032 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
13035 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13037 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
13038 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
13039 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
13040 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
13041 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
13043 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
13044 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
13045 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
13046 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
13047 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
13048 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
13049 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
13050 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
13051 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
13052 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
13053 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
13054 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
13056 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
13057 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
13058 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
13059 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
13060 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
13061 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
13062 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13063 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
13064 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
13066 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
13067 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
13068 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
13069 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
13070 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
13071 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13072 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
13073 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
13074 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
13075 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
13076 bug 820, reported by seeess.
13077 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
13078 list. It has been gone for many months.
13080 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13081 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
13082 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
13083 actual mistakes we're making here.
13084 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
13085 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
13086 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
13087 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
13090 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
13091 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
13092 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
13093 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
13096 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
13097 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
13098 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
13099 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
13100 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
13101 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
13103 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
13104 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
13105 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
13106 pointed out by rovv.
13109 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
13110 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13111 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
13112 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13113 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
13114 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
13115 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
13116 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
13117 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
13118 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13119 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
13120 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
13121 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
13122 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13123 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
13124 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
13125 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
13126 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
13127 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
13128 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
13129 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
13132 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
13133 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
13134 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
13135 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
13136 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
13137 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
13138 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
13141 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
13143 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
13144 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
13145 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
13146 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
13147 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
13148 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
13149 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
13151 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
13152 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
13153 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
13154 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
13155 known descriptor before building circuits.
13157 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
13158 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
13159 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
13160 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
13161 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
13162 identify a connection.
13163 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
13164 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
13165 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
13167 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
13168 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
13169 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
13170 pointed out by rovv.
13173 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
13174 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13175 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
13176 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
13177 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
13178 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13179 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
13180 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13181 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
13182 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
13183 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
13184 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
13185 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
13186 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
13187 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13190 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
13191 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
13192 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
13193 answer sections match.
13194 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
13195 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
13198 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
13199 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13202 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
13203 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
13204 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
13206 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
13207 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
13208 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13211 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
13212 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
13213 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
13214 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
13217 o Removed features:
13218 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
13219 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
13222 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
13223 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
13224 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
13225 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
13226 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
13227 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
13229 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
13230 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
13231 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
13234 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
13235 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
13236 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
13237 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
13238 be sent using an "early" cell.
13241 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
13242 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
13243 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
13244 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
13245 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
13246 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
13247 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
13250 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
13251 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
13252 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
13253 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
13254 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
13255 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
13256 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
13257 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
13258 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
13259 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
13260 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
13261 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
13262 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
13263 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
13264 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
13265 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
13268 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
13269 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
13270 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
13271 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
13272 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
13273 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
13274 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
13275 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
13276 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
13278 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
13279 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
13280 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
13281 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
13282 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
13285 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13286 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
13287 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
13288 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
13290 o Removed features:
13291 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
13292 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
13296 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
13298 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
13299 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
13300 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
13303 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
13304 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
13305 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
13308 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
13309 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
13310 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
13311 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
13312 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13313 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
13314 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
13315 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
13316 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13317 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
13318 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
13319 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
13320 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13321 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
13322 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
13323 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
13324 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
13325 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
13326 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
13327 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
13328 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
13329 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
13330 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
13333 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
13334 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
13336 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
13337 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
13338 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
13339 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
13340 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
13341 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
13342 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
13344 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
13345 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
13346 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
13347 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
13348 found by Geoff Goodell.
13351 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
13352 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
13353 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
13354 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
13355 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
13356 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
13359 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
13360 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
13361 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
13364 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
13365 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
13366 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
13367 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
13368 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13369 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
13370 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
13371 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
13372 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13373 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
13374 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
13375 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
13376 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
13377 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
13380 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
13381 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
13382 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
13384 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
13385 fingerprints with or without space.
13386 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
13387 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
13388 partway through and wants to catch up.
13389 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
13390 state to start out in.
13393 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
13394 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
13395 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13396 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
13397 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
13400 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
13401 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
13402 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
13403 some of the connection attempts fail.
13404 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
13405 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
13406 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
13407 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
13408 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
13409 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
13411 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
13412 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
13413 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
13416 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
13417 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
13418 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
13419 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
13420 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
13421 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
13422 and adds a variety of smaller features.
13425 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
13426 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
13427 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
13428 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
13430 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
13431 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
13432 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
13433 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
13435 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
13436 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
13437 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
13438 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
13439 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
13440 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
13441 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
13444 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
13445 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
13446 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
13447 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
13448 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
13450 o Memory fixes and improvements:
13451 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
13452 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
13453 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
13454 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
13455 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
13456 on a typical directory cache.
13457 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
13458 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
13459 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
13460 and may reduce fragmentation.
13461 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
13462 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
13463 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
13465 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
13466 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
13467 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
13469 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
13470 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
13474 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
13475 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
13476 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
13477 done that for a long time.
13478 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
13479 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
13480 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
13481 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
13484 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
13485 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
13486 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
13487 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
13488 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
13489 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
13491 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
13492 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
13493 output to messages of warning and error severity.
13494 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
13495 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
13496 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
13497 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
13498 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
13499 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
13500 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
13501 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
13502 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
13503 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
13504 directory requests we should expect to see.
13505 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
13507 - Lots of new unit tests.
13508 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
13509 two parallel lists in lockstep.
13512 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
13513 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
13514 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
13517 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
13518 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
13519 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
13520 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
13521 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
13522 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
13523 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
13526 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
13527 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
13528 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
13532 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
13533 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
13534 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
13537 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
13538 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
13539 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
13541 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
13542 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
13544 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
13545 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
13546 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
13547 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
13548 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13549 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
13550 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
13552 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
13553 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
13554 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
13555 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
13556 - Fix compile on Windows.
13559 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
13560 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
13561 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
13562 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
13563 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
13564 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
13565 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
13568 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
13569 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
13572 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
13573 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
13574 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
13575 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
13577 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
13578 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
13579 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
13582 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
13583 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
13584 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
13585 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
13589 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
13590 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
13591 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
13592 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
13594 o Major security fixes:
13595 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
13596 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
13597 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
13598 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
13599 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
13602 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
13603 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13606 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
13607 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
13610 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
13611 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
13614 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
13615 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
13616 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
13619 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
13620 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13623 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
13624 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
13625 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
13626 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
13627 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
13629 o New directory authorities:
13630 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
13631 it has been down for months.
13632 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
13636 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
13637 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
13639 o Minor features (security):
13640 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
13641 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
13642 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
13645 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
13646 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
13647 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
13648 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
13649 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
13650 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
13651 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
13652 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
13653 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13655 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
13656 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
13657 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13658 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
13659 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13660 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
13661 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13662 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
13663 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
13665 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13666 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
13667 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
13668 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
13669 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
13670 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
13671 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
13672 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
13673 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
13674 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
13675 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13676 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
13677 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
13678 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
13679 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
13680 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
13681 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
13682 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
13683 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
13686 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
13687 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13688 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
13689 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
13692 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
13693 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
13694 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
13695 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
13698 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
13699 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13700 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
13701 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
13702 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
13705 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
13706 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
13707 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
13708 certain censored countries by default again.
13711 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
13712 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13713 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
13714 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
13715 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13716 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
13717 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
13718 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
13720 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13721 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
13722 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
13723 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
13724 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
13725 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
13726 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
13727 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
13728 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
13729 a directory. Fix from lodger.
13731 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13732 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
13733 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
13734 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
13735 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
13736 RelayBandwidth* values.
13737 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
13738 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
13739 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
13740 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
13741 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
13742 get_interface_address6().
13743 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
13744 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
13745 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
13747 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
13748 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
13749 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
13750 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13751 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
13752 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
13753 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13754 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
13755 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
13756 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13759 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
13760 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
13761 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
13764 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
13765 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13766 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
13767 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
13768 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
13771 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
13772 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
13773 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
13774 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
13775 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
13776 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
13777 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
13778 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
13779 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
13782 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
13783 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
13784 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
13785 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
13788 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
13789 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
13790 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
13791 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
13792 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
13793 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
13794 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
13797 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
13798 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
13799 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
13800 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
13801 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
13802 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
13803 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
13805 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
13806 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
13807 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
13808 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
13809 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
13812 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
13813 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
13814 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13815 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
13816 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
13817 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
13818 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13819 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
13820 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
13821 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
13822 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
13823 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
13824 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
13825 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
13826 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
13827 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13828 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
13829 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13830 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13831 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
13832 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
13833 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
13834 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
13835 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
13836 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
13837 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
13839 o Minor features (performance):
13840 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
13842 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
13843 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
13844 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
13845 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
13846 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
13847 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
13848 non-system include paths.
13849 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
13850 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
13853 o Minor features (other):
13854 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
13856 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
13857 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
13858 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
13861 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
13862 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
13863 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
13864 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
13866 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
13867 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
13868 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
13869 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
13870 Should fix bug 537.
13871 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
13872 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
13873 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13874 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
13875 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13877 o Minor bugfixes (other):
13878 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
13879 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
13880 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
13881 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
13882 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
13883 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
13884 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
13885 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
13886 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
13887 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
13888 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
13889 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
13890 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
13891 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
13892 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13893 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
13894 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
13895 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
13896 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
13897 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
13898 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
13899 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
13900 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
13901 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
13904 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13905 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
13906 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
13910 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
13911 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
13912 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
13913 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
13914 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
13917 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
13918 Tor's x509 certificates.
13921 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
13922 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
13923 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13924 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
13925 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
13926 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13928 o Minor features (security):
13929 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
13930 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
13932 o Minor features (directory authority):
13933 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
13934 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
13935 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
13936 bandwidthburst values.
13938 o Minor features (controller):
13939 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
13940 processes from running us out of memory.
13942 o Minor features (misc):
13943 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
13944 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
13945 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
13946 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
13948 o Deprecated features (controller):
13949 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
13950 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
13951 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
13954 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
13955 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
13957 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
13958 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
13959 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13960 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
13961 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
13962 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13963 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
13964 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
13966 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
13967 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13968 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
13969 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13970 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
13971 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
13972 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
13973 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
13975 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
13976 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
13977 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
13978 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
13979 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13980 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
13981 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13982 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
13983 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13984 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
13985 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
13986 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13988 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13989 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
13991 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
13992 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
13993 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
13994 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
13995 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
13996 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
13999 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
14000 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
14001 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
14002 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
14003 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
14005 o New directory authorities:
14006 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
14010 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
14011 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
14012 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
14013 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
14014 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
14015 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
14016 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
14017 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
14021 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
14022 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
14023 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
14024 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
14025 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
14026 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
14027 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
14028 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
14029 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
14030 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
14033 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
14034 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
14035 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
14036 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
14040 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
14041 the request isn't encrypted.
14042 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
14043 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
14044 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
14045 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
14046 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
14049 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
14050 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
14053 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
14056 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
14057 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
14058 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
14060 o New directory authorities:
14061 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
14064 o Major performance improvements:
14065 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
14066 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
14067 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
14068 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
14069 memory fragmentation.
14072 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
14073 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
14074 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
14075 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
14076 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
14077 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
14078 bodies when they receive them.
14079 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
14080 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
14081 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
14083 o Minor performance improvements:
14084 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
14085 of them were actually distinct.
14086 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
14087 interested in a given message.
14090 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
14091 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
14092 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
14093 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
14094 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
14095 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
14096 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
14097 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
14098 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
14099 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
14100 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
14102 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
14103 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
14104 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
14105 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
14106 this country" and "1 person from this country".
14107 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
14108 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
14109 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
14110 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
14111 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
14113 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
14114 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
14115 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
14117 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
14118 but client versions are not.
14119 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
14120 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
14122 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
14123 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
14124 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
14125 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
14126 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
14128 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
14129 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
14130 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
14133 o Minor features (controller):
14134 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
14135 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
14136 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
14137 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
14139 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14140 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
14141 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
14142 running a test network on a single host.
14143 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
14144 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
14146 o Minor features (bridges):
14147 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
14148 unencrypted connections.
14150 o Minor features (other):
14151 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
14152 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
14153 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
14154 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
14157 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
14158 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
14159 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
14160 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
14163 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
14164 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
14165 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
14166 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
14167 on network address.
14170 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
14171 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
14172 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
14173 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
14174 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
14175 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
14176 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
14177 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
14178 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
14179 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
14180 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
14181 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
14184 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
14185 rebuild our server descriptor.
14186 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
14187 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
14188 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
14189 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
14190 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
14191 nonstandard integer types.
14192 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
14193 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
14194 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
14195 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
14196 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
14198 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
14199 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
14200 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
14201 when they receive them.
14202 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
14203 This includes some 64-bit systems.
14204 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
14205 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
14206 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
14207 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
14208 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
14209 router_get_by_hexdigest().
14210 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
14211 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
14215 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
14216 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
14217 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14220 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
14221 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
14222 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
14223 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
14224 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
14225 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
14226 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
14227 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14230 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
14231 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
14232 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
14233 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
14235 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
14236 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
14239 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
14240 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
14243 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
14245 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
14246 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
14248 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
14249 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
14250 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
14251 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14252 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
14253 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
14254 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
14255 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14256 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
14257 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
14261 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
14262 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
14263 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
14266 - Make the unit tests build again.
14267 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
14268 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
14269 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
14270 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
14271 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
14272 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14273 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
14274 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
14275 the next one as a duplicate.
14278 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
14279 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
14280 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
14281 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
14284 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
14285 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
14286 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
14289 o New directory authorities:
14290 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
14294 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
14295 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
14296 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
14297 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
14298 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
14299 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
14300 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
14302 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
14303 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
14305 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
14306 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
14307 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
14308 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
14309 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
14310 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
14312 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
14313 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
14314 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14315 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
14316 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
14317 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14320 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
14321 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
14322 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
14323 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
14324 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
14325 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
14326 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
14327 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
14328 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
14329 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
14330 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
14331 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
14332 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
14333 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
14334 where Tor is blocked.
14335 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
14336 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
14337 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
14338 to a file periodically.
14339 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
14340 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
14341 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
14345 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
14346 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
14347 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
14348 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
14349 in the relevant networkstatus document.
14350 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
14351 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
14352 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14353 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
14354 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
14355 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
14356 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
14357 by Karsten Loesing.
14358 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
14359 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
14360 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
14361 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
14362 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
14363 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14364 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
14365 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
14366 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
14367 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14368 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
14369 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
14370 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
14371 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14372 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
14373 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
14374 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
14375 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
14376 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
14377 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14378 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14379 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
14380 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14381 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
14382 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
14383 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14384 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
14385 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14388 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
14389 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
14390 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
14391 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
14392 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
14393 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
14394 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
14395 even if your DirPort isn't on.
14396 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
14397 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
14398 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
14400 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
14401 multiple controller passwords.
14402 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
14403 router based on the router's purpose.
14404 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
14405 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
14406 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
14407 the approved-routers file.
14410 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
14411 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
14412 well as a few minor bugs.
14415 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
14416 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
14417 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
14419 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
14420 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
14421 rebuild our server descriptor.
14423 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
14424 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
14425 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
14426 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
14427 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
14428 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
14429 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
14430 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
14431 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
14432 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
14434 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
14435 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
14436 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
14437 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
14438 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
14439 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
14440 then be flexible about families.
14443 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
14444 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
14445 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
14449 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
14450 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
14451 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
14452 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
14453 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
14456 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
14457 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
14458 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
14459 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
14460 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14463 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
14464 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
14466 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
14467 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
14468 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
14469 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
14470 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
14471 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
14472 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14474 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
14475 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
14476 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
14477 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
14480 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
14481 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
14484 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
14485 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
14486 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14489 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
14490 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
14491 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
14492 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
14493 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
14494 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
14495 addresses many more minor issues.
14497 o New directory authorities:
14498 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
14501 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
14502 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
14503 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
14504 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
14506 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
14507 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
14508 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
14509 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
14510 and are reaching it.
14511 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
14512 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
14513 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
14514 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
14515 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
14516 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
14519 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
14520 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
14522 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
14523 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
14524 no longer work for clients.
14525 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
14526 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
14528 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
14529 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
14530 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
14531 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
14532 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
14533 enough directory information to build a circuit.
14534 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
14535 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
14536 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
14537 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
14538 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
14539 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
14541 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
14542 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
14543 requests for all of them.
14544 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
14546 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
14547 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
14548 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
14550 o New requirements:
14551 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
14552 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
14556 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
14557 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
14558 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
14559 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
14560 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
14561 networkstatuses that we already have.
14562 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
14563 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
14564 we start knowing some directory caches.
14565 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
14566 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
14567 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
14568 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
14569 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
14570 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
14571 Good in combination with --hash-password.
14572 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
14573 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
14575 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
14576 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
14577 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
14579 o Minor features (bridges):
14580 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
14581 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
14582 back to trying the bridge directly.
14583 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
14584 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
14586 o Minor features (controller):
14587 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
14588 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
14589 report the value as a "minimum skew."
14592 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
14593 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
14597 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
14598 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
14599 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
14600 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
14601 reported by tup and ioerror.
14602 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
14603 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
14605 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14606 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
14608 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
14609 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
14610 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
14612 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
14613 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14614 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
14615 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14616 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
14617 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14618 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
14620 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
14621 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
14622 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14624 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
14625 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
14626 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
14627 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
14628 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
14631 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
14632 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
14633 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
14634 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
14635 lists for a few hours each day.
14637 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14638 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
14639 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
14640 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
14641 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
14642 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14643 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
14644 rend_process_relay_cell().
14646 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14647 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
14648 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
14649 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
14650 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
14651 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
14652 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
14653 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
14655 o Major bugfixes (other):
14656 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
14657 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
14658 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
14659 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
14660 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
14661 circuit cannibalization).
14662 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
14663 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
14664 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
14665 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
14666 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
14667 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
14670 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
14671 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
14673 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
14674 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
14675 absent. Resolves bug 467.
14676 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
14677 a way to trigger this remotely.)
14678 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
14679 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
14680 were reporting the dir port.)
14681 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
14682 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
14683 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
14684 the future. Fixes bug 434.
14685 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
14687 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
14688 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
14689 the onion key from getting rotated.
14690 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
14691 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
14692 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
14693 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
14694 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
14695 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
14696 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
14697 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
14698 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
14701 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
14702 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
14703 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
14704 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
14705 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
14706 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
14708 o Major features (directory system):
14709 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
14710 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
14711 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
14712 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
14713 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
14714 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
14715 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
14716 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
14717 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
14718 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
14719 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
14720 Partially implements proposal 122.
14721 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
14722 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
14725 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
14726 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
14727 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
14728 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
14730 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
14731 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
14732 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
14733 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
14734 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
14735 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14736 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
14737 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
14738 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14740 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
14741 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
14743 - Allow certificates to include an address.
14744 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
14745 and download operations.
14746 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
14747 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
14748 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
14749 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
14750 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
14751 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
14753 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
14754 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
14757 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
14758 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
14759 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
14760 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
14762 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
14763 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
14764 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
14766 o Minor features (performance):
14767 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
14768 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
14769 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
14770 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
14771 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
14772 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
14773 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
14776 o Minor features (compilation):
14777 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
14778 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
14780 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
14781 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
14782 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
14783 stick around indefinitely.
14784 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
14786 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
14787 v3 directory authority.
14788 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
14789 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
14791 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
14792 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
14793 "moria on moria:9031."
14794 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
14795 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
14796 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
14797 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
14798 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
14799 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
14800 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
14801 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
14803 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
14804 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
14805 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
14806 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
14807 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
14808 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
14809 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
14810 downloads than for other types.
14812 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
14813 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
14815 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
14816 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
14817 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14819 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14820 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
14821 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14822 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
14823 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
14824 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
14825 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
14826 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
14828 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14829 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
14830 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
14831 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
14832 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14833 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
14834 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
14835 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14836 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
14837 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
14838 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
14840 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
14841 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
14844 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14845 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
14846 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
14847 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
14848 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
14849 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
14850 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
14851 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
14852 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
14853 so that they all take the same named flags.
14856 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
14857 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
14858 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
14861 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
14862 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
14863 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
14864 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
14865 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
14866 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
14868 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
14869 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
14870 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
14871 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
14872 annotations along with descriptors.
14873 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
14874 source, and its purpose.
14875 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
14877 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
14878 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
14879 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
14880 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
14883 o Major features (directory authorities):
14884 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
14886 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
14887 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
14888 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
14889 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
14890 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
14891 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
14893 o Major features (v3 directory system):
14894 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
14895 and download the descriptors listed in them.
14896 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
14897 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
14898 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
14900 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14901 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
14902 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
14903 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
14906 o Major bugfixes (performance):
14907 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
14908 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
14909 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
14910 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
14912 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
14913 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
14914 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
14915 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
14916 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
14917 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
14919 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
14920 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
14922 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
14923 certificate is requested.
14924 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
14925 certificate requests.
14927 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
14928 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
14929 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
14930 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
14933 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14934 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
14935 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
14936 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
14938 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
14939 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
14941 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
14942 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
14943 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14944 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
14945 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
14946 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
14947 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
14948 downloads more sensible.
14949 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
14950 another when serving certificates.
14952 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14953 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
14954 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
14955 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
14957 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
14958 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14959 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
14961 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
14962 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14964 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14965 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
14966 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
14967 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
14968 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14970 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
14971 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
14972 WARN-severity events.
14973 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
14974 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
14975 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
14977 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
14978 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
14979 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
14981 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
14982 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
14983 circuit cannibalization).
14985 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14986 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
14987 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
14988 new module, networkstatus.c.
14989 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
14990 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
14991 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
14992 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
14993 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
14994 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
14995 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
14996 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
14997 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
14999 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
15001 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
15002 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
15005 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
15006 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
15007 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
15008 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
15010 o New directory authorities:
15011 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
15012 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
15014 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15015 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
15016 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15018 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
15019 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
15020 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
15021 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
15022 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
15023 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
15024 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
15025 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
15026 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
15027 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
15028 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15030 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15031 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
15032 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
15033 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
15034 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
15035 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
15036 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
15037 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
15038 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
15040 o Minor features (security):
15041 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
15042 address maps to an internal address space.
15043 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
15044 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
15046 o Minor features (guard nodes):
15047 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
15048 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
15049 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
15050 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
15052 o Minor features (speed):
15053 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
15054 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
15055 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
15056 on big-endian hosts.)
15058 o Minor features (controller):
15059 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
15060 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
15061 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
15062 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
15065 o Removed features:
15066 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
15067 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
15068 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
15069 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
15070 implementation of proposal 104.
15071 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
15072 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
15073 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
15074 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
15075 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
15076 patch from Karsten Loesing.
15077 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
15078 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
15081 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
15082 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
15083 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15084 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
15085 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15086 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
15087 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15088 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
15089 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
15090 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15091 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
15092 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
15093 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
15094 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15095 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
15096 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
15097 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
15098 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15099 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
15100 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
15102 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15103 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
15104 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
15106 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
15107 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
15108 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
15109 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
15112 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
15113 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
15114 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
15115 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
15116 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
15119 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
15120 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
15123 o Major bugfixes (security):
15124 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
15125 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
15126 become more of a headache than it's worth.
15128 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
15129 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
15130 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
15132 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
15133 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
15134 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
15135 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
15136 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
15137 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
15139 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
15140 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
15141 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
15142 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
15143 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
15145 o Minor features (controller):
15146 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
15147 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
15148 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
15149 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
15151 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15152 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
15153 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
15154 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
15155 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
15156 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
15157 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
15158 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
15160 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
15161 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
15162 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
15163 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
15164 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
15165 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
15166 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
15167 if we ran off the end of the list.
15168 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
15169 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
15170 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
15171 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
15172 every time we change any piece of our config.
15173 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
15174 encourage people using them to stop.
15175 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
15177 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
15178 servers to choose a circuit.
15179 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
15180 unparseable piece of it.
15183 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
15184 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
15185 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
15186 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
15189 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
15190 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
15191 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
15192 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
15193 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
15195 o New directory authorities:
15196 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
15199 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
15200 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
15201 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
15202 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
15204 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
15205 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
15206 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
15208 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
15209 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
15210 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
15211 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
15212 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
15213 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
15215 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
15216 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
15217 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15220 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
15221 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
15222 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
15223 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
15227 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
15228 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
15229 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
15230 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
15232 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
15233 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
15235 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
15236 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
15237 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
15238 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
15239 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
15240 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
15241 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15242 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
15243 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15244 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
15247 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
15248 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
15249 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
15250 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
15251 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
15252 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
15254 o Removed features:
15255 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
15256 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
15257 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
15258 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
15261 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
15262 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
15263 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
15264 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
15265 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
15268 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
15269 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
15270 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
15271 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
15272 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
15273 reported by lodger.
15275 o Minor features (directory servers):
15276 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
15277 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
15279 o Minor features (directory voting):
15280 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
15283 o Minor features (security):
15284 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
15285 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
15286 encourage people using them to stop.
15288 o Minor features (controller):
15289 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
15290 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
15291 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
15292 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
15293 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
15294 cookie authentication file, and config option
15295 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
15297 o Minor features (unit testing):
15298 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
15299 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
15300 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
15301 logging for the unit tests.
15303 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
15304 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
15305 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
15306 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
15307 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
15308 every time we change any piece of our config.
15309 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
15310 the future. Fixes bug 434.
15311 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
15313 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
15314 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
15315 the onion key from getting rotated.
15316 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
15317 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
15318 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
15321 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
15322 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
15323 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
15325 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
15326 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
15327 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
15328 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
15331 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
15332 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
15333 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
15334 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
15335 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
15336 TorK, etc. Or worse.
15338 o Major security fixes:
15339 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
15340 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
15343 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
15344 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
15345 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
15346 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
15348 o Major security fixes:
15349 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
15350 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
15352 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15353 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
15356 o Minor features (performance):
15357 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
15358 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
15359 performance-intensive.
15360 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
15361 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
15362 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
15363 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
15364 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
15365 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
15369 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
15370 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
15371 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
15372 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
15376 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
15377 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
15378 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
15379 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
15380 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
15382 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
15383 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
15384 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
15385 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
15387 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
15388 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
15389 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
15390 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
15391 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
15393 o Major features (experimental):
15394 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
15395 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
15396 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
15397 handling before it's ready for use.
15400 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
15401 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
15402 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
15403 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
15404 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
15405 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
15407 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
15408 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
15409 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
15410 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
15411 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
15413 o Major bugfixes (directory):
15414 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
15415 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
15417 o Minor features (controller):
15418 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
15419 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
15420 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
15421 from Robert Hogan.)
15422 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
15423 from Robert Hogan.)
15424 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
15425 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
15427 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
15428 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
15429 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
15430 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
15431 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
15432 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
15433 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
15436 o Minor features (misc):
15437 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
15439 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
15440 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
15441 the authority identity key.
15442 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
15444 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
15445 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
15446 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
15449 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
15450 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
15451 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
15452 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
15453 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
15454 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
15455 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
15456 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
15458 o Performance improvements:
15459 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
15461 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
15462 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
15465 o Deprecated and removed features:
15466 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
15467 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
15468 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
15469 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
15471 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15472 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
15473 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15474 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
15475 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
15476 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15477 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
15478 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
15479 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
15482 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
15483 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
15484 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
15485 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
15486 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
15488 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
15489 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
15492 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15493 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
15494 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
15495 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
15496 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
15497 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
15498 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
15499 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
15500 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
15503 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
15504 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
15505 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
15506 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
15508 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15509 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
15511 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15512 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
15513 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
15514 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
15515 routerlist while inserting a new router.
15516 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
15517 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
15519 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
15520 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
15521 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
15523 o Major bugfixes (security):
15524 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
15526 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
15527 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
15528 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
15529 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
15530 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
15531 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
15532 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
15533 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
15534 guard list unless we need to.
15536 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
15537 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
15538 don't get overused as guards.
15540 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15541 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
15542 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
15543 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
15544 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
15546 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15547 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
15548 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
15551 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
15552 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
15553 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
15554 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
15555 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
15556 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
15557 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
15558 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
15561 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
15562 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
15563 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
15564 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
15566 o Minor features (directory):
15567 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
15568 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
15569 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
15570 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
15572 o Minor build issues:
15573 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
15574 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
15575 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
15576 in the tarball, not as "x".
15579 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
15580 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
15581 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
15582 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
15583 forward on a lot of fronts.
15585 o Major features, server usability:
15586 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
15587 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
15588 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
15589 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
15591 o Major features, client usability:
15592 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
15593 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
15594 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
15595 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
15596 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
15597 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
15598 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
15599 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
15601 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
15602 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
15603 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
15604 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
15605 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
15606 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
15608 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
15609 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
15610 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
15612 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
15613 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
15614 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
15615 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
15616 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
15618 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
15619 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
15620 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
15621 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
15623 o Major features, other:
15624 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
15625 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
15626 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
15627 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
15628 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
15631 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
15632 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
15633 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
15636 o Minor fixes (resource management):
15637 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
15638 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
15639 our allocated connection limit.
15640 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
15641 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
15642 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
15643 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
15644 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
15646 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
15647 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
15648 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
15650 o Minor features (build):
15651 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
15652 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
15653 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
15654 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
15656 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
15657 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
15658 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
15659 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
15660 Use this version consistently in log messages.
15662 o Minor features (logging):
15663 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
15664 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
15665 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
15666 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
15667 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
15670 o Minor features (directory system):
15671 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
15672 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
15673 not to serve V2 directory information.
15674 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
15675 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
15676 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
15678 o Minor features (controller):
15679 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
15680 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
15682 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
15683 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
15684 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
15685 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
15686 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
15687 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
15689 o Minor features (hidden services):
15690 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
15691 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
15692 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
15693 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
15695 o Minor features (other):
15697 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
15698 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
15699 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
15700 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
15701 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
15702 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
15703 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
15704 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
15705 longer a completely silly thing to do.
15706 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
15707 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
15708 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
15709 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
15711 o Removed features:
15712 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
15713 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
15714 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
15715 back an error and close the connection.
15716 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
15717 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
15720 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15721 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
15722 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
15723 makes the log messages nicer.
15724 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
15725 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
15726 partial results on small file reads.
15728 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15729 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
15730 more often than they are allowed to appear.
15731 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
15732 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
15734 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15735 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
15736 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
15737 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
15739 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15740 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
15741 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
15742 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
15743 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
15744 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
15745 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
15746 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
15747 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
15748 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
15749 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
15751 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
15752 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
15753 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
15755 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
15756 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
15757 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
15758 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
15760 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15761 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
15762 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
15764 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
15765 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
15768 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15769 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
15770 implicit in other procedure arguments.
15771 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
15772 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
15773 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
15774 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
15775 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
15776 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
15777 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
15778 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
15779 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
15782 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
15783 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
15784 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
15785 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
15787 o Directory authority changes:
15788 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
15789 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
15790 or use hidden services.
15792 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15793 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
15794 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
15795 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
15796 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
15797 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
15798 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
15799 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
15800 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
15803 o Major bugfixes (security):
15804 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
15805 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
15806 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
15808 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
15809 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
15810 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
15811 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
15812 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
15813 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
15814 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
15815 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
15816 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
15817 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
15820 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
15821 purpose=controller.
15822 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
15823 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
15825 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
15826 having a hard time downloading.
15827 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
15828 partial results on small file reads.
15829 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
15830 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
15831 the gaps in the store get very large.
15834 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
15835 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
15837 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
15838 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
15841 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
15842 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
15843 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
15844 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
15845 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
15846 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
15848 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
15849 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
15850 free speech on the Internet.
15853 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
15854 get one we don't recognize.
15855 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
15856 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
15859 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
15861 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
15862 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
15863 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
15864 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
15867 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
15868 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
15871 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
15872 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
15873 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
15874 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
15875 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
15876 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
15877 ask for GUARDS too.
15880 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
15881 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
15882 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
15883 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
15884 on Win98 and friends again.
15886 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15887 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
15888 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
15891 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
15892 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
15893 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
15894 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
15895 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
15896 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
15897 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
15898 and maybe also bug 397.)
15900 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15901 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
15902 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
15904 o Minor bugfixes (server):
15905 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
15908 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
15909 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
15910 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
15911 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
15912 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
15914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15915 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
15916 load on authorities.
15918 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15919 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
15920 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
15921 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
15923 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
15925 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
15926 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
15927 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
15928 the last of bug 326.)
15929 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
15930 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
15934 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
15935 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
15936 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
15937 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
15938 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
15939 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
15940 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
15942 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
15943 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
15945 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15946 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
15947 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
15949 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
15950 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
15951 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
15953 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15954 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
15955 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
15956 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
15958 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
15959 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
15961 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
15962 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
15963 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
15966 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15967 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
15968 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
15969 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
15970 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
15971 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
15972 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
15973 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
15974 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
15975 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
15976 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
15977 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
15978 other than file-not-found.
15979 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
15980 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
15981 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
15982 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
15983 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
15984 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
15985 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
15986 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
15987 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
15988 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
15989 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
15990 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
15991 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
15992 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
15993 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
15995 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
15997 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
15998 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
16000 o Minor features (controller):
16001 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
16002 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
16003 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
16005 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
16006 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
16007 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
16008 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
16009 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
16010 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
16011 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
16012 connected or resolved cell.
16014 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
16015 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
16016 some profiles, but not others.)
16017 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
16018 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
16019 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
16022 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
16024 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
16025 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
16026 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
16027 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
16028 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
16029 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
16030 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
16031 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
16032 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
16033 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
16034 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
16035 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
16036 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
16037 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
16038 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
16040 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
16043 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
16044 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
16045 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
16046 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
16047 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
16048 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
16049 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
16051 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
16052 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
16053 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
16054 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
16055 buckets go absurdly negative.
16056 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
16057 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
16060 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
16061 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
16062 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
16063 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
16064 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
16065 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
16066 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
16067 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
16070 o Major bugfixes (other):
16071 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
16072 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
16073 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
16074 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
16076 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
16078 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
16079 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
16081 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
16082 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
16083 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
16084 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
16085 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
16086 to wait for 0.2.0.)
16088 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
16089 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
16090 possible memory-stomping bugs.
16091 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
16092 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
16094 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
16095 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
16096 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
16097 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
16098 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
16099 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
16101 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16102 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
16103 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
16104 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
16106 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
16107 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
16108 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
16109 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
16110 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
16111 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
16112 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
16113 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
16114 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
16115 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
16116 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
16117 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
16118 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
16120 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
16121 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
16122 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
16123 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
16124 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
16125 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
16126 to the resulting address.
16129 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
16130 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
16131 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
16132 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
16135 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
16136 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
16138 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
16139 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
16140 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
16141 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
16142 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
16143 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
16144 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
16145 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
16146 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
16147 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
16148 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
16149 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
16150 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
16151 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
16152 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
16153 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
16154 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
16157 o Minor features (controller):
16158 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
16159 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
16160 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
16161 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
16162 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
16163 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
16164 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
16168 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
16170 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
16171 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
16172 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
16173 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
16174 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
16175 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
16178 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
16179 weren't planning to resolve.
16180 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
16181 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
16182 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
16183 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
16184 the controller from learning about current events.
16186 o Minor features (more controller status events):
16187 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
16188 learn when our address changes.
16189 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
16190 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
16191 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
16192 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
16194 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
16195 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
16196 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
16197 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
16198 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
16199 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
16200 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
16201 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
16202 are accepted by a directory.
16203 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
16204 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
16205 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
16206 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
16207 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
16209 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
16210 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
16211 about changes to DNS server status.
16213 o Minor features (directory):
16214 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
16215 too much load to the exit nodes.
16218 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
16220 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
16221 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
16222 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
16223 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
16224 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
16226 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
16227 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
16228 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
16230 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
16231 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
16232 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
16233 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
16234 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
16235 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
16236 config options if you like.
16238 o Minor features (config and docs):
16239 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
16240 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
16241 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
16242 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
16243 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
16245 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
16246 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
16247 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
16248 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
16249 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
16251 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
16252 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
16253 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
16254 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
16255 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
16256 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
16257 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
16258 documentation: "make check-docs".
16259 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
16260 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
16262 o Minor features (DNS):
16263 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
16264 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
16265 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
16266 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
16267 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
16268 our tests for DNS hijacking.
16270 o Minor features (directory):
16271 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
16272 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
16273 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
16274 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
16275 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
16276 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
16277 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
16278 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
16279 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
16280 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
16281 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
16282 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
16283 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
16284 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
16285 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
16286 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
16287 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
16288 for the thing we're trying to download.
16289 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
16290 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
16291 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
16293 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
16294 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
16295 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
16298 o Minor features (controller):
16299 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
16300 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
16302 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
16303 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
16304 entry guard status as it changes.
16306 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
16307 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
16308 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
16309 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
16310 to set log options.
16311 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
16312 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
16313 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
16314 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
16317 o Major bugfixes (security):
16318 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
16319 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
16320 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
16321 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
16323 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
16324 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
16325 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
16326 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
16327 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
16329 o Major bugfixes (other):
16330 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
16331 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
16332 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
16333 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
16335 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
16336 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
16337 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
16338 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
16339 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
16340 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
16344 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
16345 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
16346 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
16347 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
16348 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
16350 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
16351 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
16353 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
16354 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
16355 family lists conveniently.
16356 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
16357 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
16358 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
16360 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
16361 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
16363 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
16364 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
16365 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
16366 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
16367 if their identity keys are as expected.
16368 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
16369 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
16370 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
16372 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16373 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
16374 reported by Mike Perry.
16375 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
16376 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
16377 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
16378 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
16381 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
16382 o Security bugfixes:
16383 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
16384 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
16385 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
16386 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
16390 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
16391 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
16392 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
16395 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
16397 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
16398 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
16399 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
16402 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
16403 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
16404 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
16405 watching for STREAM events.
16406 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
16407 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
16408 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
16409 operations, for profiling.
16412 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
16413 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
16414 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
16415 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
16416 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
16417 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
16419 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
16423 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
16424 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
16425 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
16426 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
16427 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
16429 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
16430 correctly in the Windows installer.
16431 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
16432 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
16433 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
16434 MIPSpro C compiler.
16435 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
16436 when we're running as a client.
16439 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
16441 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
16442 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
16443 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
16444 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
16445 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
16446 its circuits on demand.
16447 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
16448 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
16449 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
16450 connections more stable on average.
16451 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
16452 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
16453 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
16455 o Security bugfixes:
16456 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
16457 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
16460 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
16462 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
16463 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
16464 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
16465 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
16466 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
16467 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
16468 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
16469 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
16472 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
16474 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
16475 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
16476 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
16477 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
16478 routers for even longer.
16479 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
16480 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
16481 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
16482 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
16483 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
16484 caching HTTP proxies.
16485 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
16488 o Minor features, controller:
16489 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
16490 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
16491 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
16492 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
16494 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
16495 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
16496 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
16497 working much like those for circuit events.
16498 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
16499 about the current status of a router.
16500 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
16501 a router's status has changed.
16502 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
16503 can tell which events and features are supported.
16504 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
16505 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
16507 o Security bugfixes:
16508 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
16509 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
16512 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
16513 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
16514 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
16515 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
16516 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
16517 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
16518 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
16519 long nicknames where appropriate.
16520 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
16521 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
16522 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
16523 chews through many circuits before giving up.
16524 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
16525 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
16526 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
16527 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
16528 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
16529 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
16531 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
16532 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
16533 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
16535 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
16536 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
16537 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
16538 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
16539 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
16540 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
16541 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
16542 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
16543 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
16544 (reported by fookoowa).
16545 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
16546 and reported by some Centos users.
16547 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
16548 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
16549 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
16550 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
16551 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
16552 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
16553 before we check for libevent.
16556 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
16558 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
16559 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
16560 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
16561 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
16562 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
16563 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
16564 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
16565 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
16566 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
16567 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
16568 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
16569 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
16570 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
16571 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
16572 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
16573 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
16574 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
16575 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
16576 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
16577 lets you turn it off.
16578 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
16579 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
16580 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
16581 us into the directory more quickly.
16583 o New/improved config options:
16584 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
16585 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
16586 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
16587 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
16588 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
16589 all the machines on the same subnet.
16590 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
16591 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
16592 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
16593 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
16594 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
16595 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
16596 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
16597 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
16598 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
16599 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
16601 o Minor features, controller:
16602 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
16603 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
16604 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
16605 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
16606 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
16607 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
16608 for more information.
16609 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
16610 best guess to the user.
16611 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
16612 descriptor has changed.
16613 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
16615 o Minor features, other:
16616 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
16617 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
16618 useful to the network.
16619 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
16620 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
16621 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
16622 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
16623 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
16624 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
16625 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
16626 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
16627 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
16628 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
16629 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
16630 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
16631 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
16632 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
16633 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
16635 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
16636 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
16637 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
16638 could return an unnamed server instead.
16639 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
16640 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
16641 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
16642 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
16643 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
16644 a more attractive target for compromise.)
16645 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
16646 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
16647 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
16649 o Major bugfixes, other:
16650 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
16651 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
16652 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
16653 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
16654 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
16655 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
16656 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
16657 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
16658 its circuits on demand.
16659 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
16660 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
16661 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
16662 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
16664 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
16665 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
16666 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
16667 we don't recognize.
16668 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
16670 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
16671 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
16672 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
16673 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
16674 "extendcircuit" request.
16675 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
16676 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
16677 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
16679 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
16680 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
16681 instead of "X resolved to X".
16682 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
16683 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
16684 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
16685 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
16686 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
16687 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
16688 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
16689 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
16690 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
16692 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
16693 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
16694 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
16695 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
16696 result more than once.
16697 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
16698 non-versioning dirservers.
16699 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
16700 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
16702 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
16703 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
16704 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
16705 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
16706 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
16707 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
16708 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
16709 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
16710 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
16712 o Packaging, features:
16713 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
16714 now universal binaries.
16715 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
16716 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
16717 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
16719 o Packaging, bugfixes:
16720 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
16721 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
16722 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
16723 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
16725 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
16726 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
16727 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
16730 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
16731 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
16732 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
16736 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
16738 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
16739 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
16740 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
16741 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
16742 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
16743 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
16744 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
16745 it can't resolve its hostname.
16748 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
16749 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
16750 "extendcircuit" request.
16751 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
16752 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
16753 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
16754 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
16756 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
16757 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
16758 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
16760 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
16761 methods: these are known to be buggy.
16762 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
16763 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
16764 we don't recognize.
16767 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
16769 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
16770 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
16771 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
16772 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
16773 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
16774 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
16775 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
16776 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
16777 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
16778 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
16779 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
16780 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
16781 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
16782 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
16783 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
16784 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
16785 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
16786 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
16787 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
16788 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
16789 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
16790 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
16791 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
16792 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
16795 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
16796 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
16797 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
16798 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
16799 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
16800 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
16801 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
16802 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
16803 recommendation system saner.)
16804 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
16806 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
16807 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
16808 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
16809 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
16810 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
16811 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
16812 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
16813 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
16814 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
16815 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
16816 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
16817 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
16818 your ORPort is set.
16819 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
16820 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
16821 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
16822 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
16823 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
16824 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
16825 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
16826 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
16827 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
16828 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
16829 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
16830 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
16832 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
16833 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
16834 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
16835 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
16836 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
16837 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
16840 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
16841 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
16842 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
16843 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
16844 our DirPort now, etc.
16845 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
16846 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
16847 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
16848 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
16849 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
16850 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
16851 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
16853 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
16854 whether the config options are bad or good.
16855 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
16856 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
16857 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
16858 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
16859 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
16860 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
16861 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
16862 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
16865 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
16866 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
16867 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
16868 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
16869 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
16870 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
16871 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
16872 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
16873 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
16874 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
16875 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
16876 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
16877 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
16878 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
16879 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
16880 of it), is not therefore "up".
16881 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
16882 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
16883 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
16884 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
16885 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
16886 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
16889 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
16891 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
16892 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
16893 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
16894 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
16895 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
16896 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
16897 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
16898 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
16899 test reachability, so you won't publish.
16902 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
16903 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
16904 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
16905 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
16906 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
16908 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
16909 own server descriptor yet.
16912 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
16914 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
16915 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
16916 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
16917 make sure to test via one of these.
16918 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
16919 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
16920 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
16921 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
16922 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
16924 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
16925 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
16926 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
16929 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
16930 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
16931 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
16932 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
16933 directory authority.
16934 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
16935 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
16936 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
16937 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
16940 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
16941 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
16942 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
16944 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
16945 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
16946 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
16947 current guards when picking a new guard.
16948 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
16949 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
16950 when we had more than one pending.
16951 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
16952 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
16953 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
16954 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
16955 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
16956 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
16957 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
16958 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
16959 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
16960 debug the reachability problems better.
16962 o Log / documentation fixes:
16963 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
16964 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
16965 about protocol violations by others.
16966 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
16967 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
16968 about what happened to our old torrc.
16971 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
16973 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
16975 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
16976 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
16977 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
16978 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
16981 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
16983 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
16984 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
16985 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
16986 old ORPort and receive connections.
16987 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
16989 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
16990 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
16991 and network-statuses.
16992 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
16993 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
16994 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
16995 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
16997 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
17000 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
17001 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
17002 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
17005 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
17007 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
17008 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
17009 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
17010 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
17011 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
17014 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
17015 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
17017 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
17018 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
17019 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
17020 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
17021 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
17022 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
17023 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
17024 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
17025 rather than not sending anything back at all.
17026 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
17027 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
17028 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
17029 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
17030 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
17031 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
17032 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
17033 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
17034 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
17035 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
17036 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
17037 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
17038 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
17039 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
17040 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
17041 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
17042 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
17043 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
17044 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
17045 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
17046 default ulimit -n is 1024.
17049 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
17050 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
17051 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
17052 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
17055 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
17057 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
17058 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
17059 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
17060 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
17061 entry guards running these flawed versions.
17062 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
17063 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
17064 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
17065 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
17066 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
17069 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
17070 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
17072 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
17073 and it is confusing some users.
17074 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
17075 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
17076 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
17077 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
17078 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
17081 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
17083 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
17084 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
17085 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
17086 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
17087 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
17088 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
17089 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
17090 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
17091 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
17092 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
17093 dirport is set for now.
17095 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
17096 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
17097 unattached before we fail it?
17098 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
17099 at least this many seconds ago.
17100 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
17101 at least this many seconds ago.
17104 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
17105 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
17106 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
17107 or resolve-wait stream.
17108 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
17109 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
17110 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
17111 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
17112 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
17113 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
17114 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
17115 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
17117 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
17118 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
17119 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
17120 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
17121 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
17122 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
17123 given as hex digests.
17124 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
17125 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
17126 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
17127 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
17128 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
17129 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
17130 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
17131 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
17134 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17135 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
17136 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
17137 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
17138 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
17139 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
17140 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
17141 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
17142 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
17143 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
17144 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
17147 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
17148 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
17149 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
17150 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
17151 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
17152 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
17153 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
17156 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
17157 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
17158 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
17159 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
17160 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
17161 misreading their logs.
17162 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
17163 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
17164 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
17165 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
17166 valid router descriptors.
17167 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
17168 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
17169 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
17170 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
17171 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
17172 silently resetting it to its default.
17173 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
17175 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
17178 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
17179 use clean circuits.
17180 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
17181 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
17182 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
17183 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
17184 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
17186 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
17187 because older Tors do not understand it.
17188 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
17192 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
17193 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
17194 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
17195 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
17196 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
17197 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
17198 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
17199 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
17200 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
17201 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
17202 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
17204 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
17205 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
17206 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
17207 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
17209 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
17210 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
17213 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
17214 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
17215 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
17216 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
17217 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
17218 without getting overloaded.
17219 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
17221 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
17222 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
17223 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
17224 be forward-compatible.
17225 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
17226 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
17227 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
17228 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
17230 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
17231 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
17232 and OR conns to port 443.
17233 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
17234 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
17236 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
17237 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
17238 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
17239 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
17240 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
17241 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
17242 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
17245 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
17246 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17247 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
17248 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
17250 o Other important bugfixes:
17251 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
17252 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
17253 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
17254 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
17256 o Backported features:
17257 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
17258 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
17259 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
17260 without getting overloaded.
17261 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
17262 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
17263 503's whenever they feel busy.
17264 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
17265 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
17266 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
17267 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
17268 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
17271 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
17272 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
17273 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
17274 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
17275 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
17276 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
17277 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
17278 know if the crashes continue.
17279 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
17280 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
17281 seg faults in at least some cases.)
17282 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
17283 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
17284 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
17287 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
17288 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
17289 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
17290 try to be a bit more fair.
17291 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
17292 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
17293 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
17294 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
17295 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
17296 bug that let it go negative.
17297 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
17298 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
17299 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
17300 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
17301 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
17302 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
17303 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
17304 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
17305 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
17306 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
17307 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
17310 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
17312 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
17313 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
17314 service descriptors.
17317 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
17318 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
17319 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
17320 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
17322 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
17323 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
17324 versions *are* still recommended.
17325 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
17326 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
17327 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
17328 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
17329 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
17330 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
17331 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
17332 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
17334 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
17335 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
17336 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
17337 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
17338 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
17339 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
17340 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
17341 on it. Not used by clients yet.
17342 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
17343 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
17344 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
17345 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
17346 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
17347 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
17348 established a circuit.
17349 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
17350 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
17351 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
17352 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
17355 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
17356 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
17357 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
17358 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
17359 quickly enough. Oops.
17360 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
17362 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17363 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
17366 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
17367 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
17368 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
17369 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
17370 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
17371 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
17372 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
17373 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
17374 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
17375 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
17376 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
17377 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
17378 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
17379 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
17380 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
17381 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
17382 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
17385 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
17386 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
17387 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
17388 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
17389 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
17390 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
17391 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
17392 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
17393 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
17394 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
17395 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
17396 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
17397 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
17398 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
17399 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
17400 connections more reliable.
17403 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
17404 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
17405 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
17406 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
17407 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
17408 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
17409 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
17410 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
17411 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
17412 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
17413 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
17414 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
17415 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
17416 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
17420 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
17421 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
17422 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
17423 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
17424 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
17425 need to be uint64_t's.
17426 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
17427 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
17428 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
17430 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
17432 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
17433 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
17434 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
17435 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
17436 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
17437 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
17438 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
17440 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
17441 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
17442 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
17443 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
17444 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
17445 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
17446 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
17447 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
17448 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
17449 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
17450 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
17451 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
17452 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
17455 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
17456 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
17457 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
17458 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
17459 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
17460 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
17461 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
17463 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
17464 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
17465 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
17466 can answer v2 directory requests too.
17467 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
17468 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
17469 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
17470 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
17472 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
17473 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
17474 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
17475 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
17476 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
17477 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
17478 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
17479 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
17480 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
17481 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
17482 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
17483 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
17484 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
17485 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
17486 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
17488 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
17489 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
17492 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
17493 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17494 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
17495 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
17496 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
17497 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
17498 too -- so detect and avoid this.
17499 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
17501 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
17502 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
17503 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
17504 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
17505 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
17506 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
17507 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
17508 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
17509 rendezvous circuits.
17510 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
17512 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17513 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
17514 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
17515 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
17516 advertising it because of hibernation.
17517 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
17518 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
17519 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
17520 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
17521 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
17522 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
17523 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
17524 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
17525 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
17526 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
17527 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
17528 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
17529 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
17530 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
17533 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
17534 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17535 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
17536 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
17537 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
17538 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
17539 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
17540 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
17541 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
17542 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
17543 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
17544 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
17545 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
17546 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
17547 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
17548 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
17549 connections once a week.
17550 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
17551 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
17552 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
17553 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
17554 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
17555 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
17557 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
17558 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
17559 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
17561 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17562 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
17563 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
17564 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
17565 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
17566 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
17567 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
17568 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
17569 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
17570 firewall options forbid.
17571 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
17572 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
17573 can only proxy to certain destinations.
17574 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
17575 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
17576 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
17577 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
17578 aids some statistical attacks.
17579 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
17580 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
17581 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
17582 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
17584 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
17585 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
17586 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
17587 server descriptor sometimes.
17588 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
17589 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
17590 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
17591 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
17592 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
17593 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
17594 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
17595 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
17597 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
17598 case the controller wants to change that too.
17599 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
17600 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
17601 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
17602 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
17604 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
17605 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
17606 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
17608 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
17609 descriptors that they know they will reject.
17611 o Features and updates:
17612 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
17613 significantly faster.
17614 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
17615 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
17616 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
17617 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
17618 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
17619 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
17620 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
17621 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
17622 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
17623 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
17624 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
17625 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
17626 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
17627 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
17628 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
17629 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
17630 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
17631 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
17632 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
17633 as authoritative dirserver.
17634 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
17635 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
17636 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
17639 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
17640 o Usability improvements:
17641 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
17642 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
17644 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
17645 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
17646 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
17648 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
17649 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
17650 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
17651 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
17652 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
17653 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
17654 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
17655 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
17656 memory leaks better.
17657 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
17658 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
17659 their operators to pay close attention.
17660 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
17661 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
17663 o Performance improvements:
17664 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
17665 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
17666 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
17667 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
17668 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
17669 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
17670 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
17671 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
17672 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
17673 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
17674 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
17675 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
17676 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
17677 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
17678 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
17679 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
17680 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
17682 o Security improvements:
17683 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
17684 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
17685 fingerprint of server.
17686 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
17687 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
17688 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
17690 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17691 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
17692 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
17693 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
17694 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
17695 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
17696 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
17697 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
17698 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
17699 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
17700 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
17701 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
17702 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
17703 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
17704 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
17705 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
17706 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
17707 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
17708 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
17709 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
17710 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
17712 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
17713 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
17714 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
17716 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
17717 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
17719 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
17720 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
17721 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
17722 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
17723 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
17724 of the controller protocol.
17725 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
17726 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
17727 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
17730 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
17731 o New features (major):
17732 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
17733 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
17734 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
17735 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
17736 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
17737 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
17738 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
17739 we're using a default DirPort.
17740 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
17742 o New features (minor):
17743 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
17744 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
17745 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
17746 mirrors still cache and serve it).
17747 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
17748 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
17749 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
17750 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
17751 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
17752 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
17753 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
17754 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
17755 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
17756 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
17757 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
17758 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
17759 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
17760 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
17761 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
17763 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
17764 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
17765 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
17766 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
17767 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
17768 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
17769 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
17770 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
17772 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
17773 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
17774 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
17775 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
17776 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
17777 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
17778 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
17779 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
17780 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
17781 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
17783 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
17784 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
17785 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
17786 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
17787 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
17789 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17790 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
17791 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
17793 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
17794 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
17796 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
17797 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
17798 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
17799 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
17800 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
17801 don't warn twice about the same name.
17802 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
17803 if we've not heard of the server.
17804 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
17805 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
17808 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
17809 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17810 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
17811 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
17812 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
17813 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
17814 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
17815 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
17816 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
17817 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
17818 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
17819 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
17820 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
17821 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
17822 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
17825 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
17826 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
17827 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
17828 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
17829 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
17831 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
17832 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
17833 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
17834 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
17835 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
17836 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
17840 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
17841 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
17842 nickname) is reachable by you.
17843 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
17846 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17847 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
17848 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
17849 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
17850 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
17851 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
17852 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
17853 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
17854 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
17855 we fail to connect).
17856 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
17857 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
17858 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
17859 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
17861 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
17862 it was self-testing that told us so.
17865 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
17866 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
17867 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
17868 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
17869 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
17870 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
17871 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
17872 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
17873 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
17874 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
17875 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
17876 exit policy using him for any exits.
17877 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
17880 o New controller features/fixes:
17881 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
17882 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
17883 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
17884 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
17885 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
17886 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
17887 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
17888 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
17889 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
17891 o Start on the new directory design:
17892 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
17893 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
17895 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
17896 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
17897 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
17898 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
17900 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
17901 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
17902 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
17903 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
17904 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
17905 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
17906 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
17907 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
17910 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
17911 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
17912 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
17913 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
17914 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
17915 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
17916 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
17917 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
17918 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
17919 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
17921 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
17922 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
17923 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
17924 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
17925 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
17926 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
17927 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
17928 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
17929 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
17931 o Config option changes:
17932 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
17933 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
17934 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
17935 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
17936 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
17937 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
17939 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
17940 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
17941 people have started using them for spam too.
17942 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
17943 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
17944 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
17945 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
17946 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
17947 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
17948 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
17949 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
17950 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
17951 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
17952 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
17953 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
17954 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
17955 services faster on the service end.
17956 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
17957 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
17958 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
17959 it a fair shake next time we try.
17960 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
17961 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
17962 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
17963 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
17964 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
17965 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
17966 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
17967 able to discover them.
17968 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
17969 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
17970 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
17971 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
17972 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
17973 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
17974 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
17975 testing for reachability.
17976 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
17977 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
17979 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
17981 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
17982 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
17985 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
17986 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
17988 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17989 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
17990 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
17991 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
17994 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
17995 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
17996 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
17998 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
17999 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
18002 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
18003 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
18006 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
18007 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
18008 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
18009 options, getinfo keys.
18012 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
18013 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18014 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
18015 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
18016 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
18017 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
18018 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
18020 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
18021 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
18025 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
18026 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
18027 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
18029 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
18031 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
18032 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
18033 circuit events and we go offline.
18034 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
18035 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
18036 you don't have enough intro points already.
18038 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
18039 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
18040 many bytes we've used in this time period.
18041 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
18042 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
18043 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
18044 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
18045 enabled by default yet.
18047 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
18048 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
18049 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
18050 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
18051 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
18054 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
18055 o New directory servers:
18056 - tor26 has changed IP address.
18058 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18059 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
18060 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
18061 pthreads libraries.
18062 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
18063 claims its dirport is 0.
18064 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
18065 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
18069 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
18070 o New directory servers:
18071 - tor26 has changed IP address.
18073 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
18074 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
18076 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
18077 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
18078 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
18079 ports that have changed.
18080 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
18082 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
18083 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
18084 Windows-style errno back.
18085 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
18087 want to make it an NT service.
18088 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
18089 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
18090 name, give the full name in our response.
18091 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
18092 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
18093 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
18094 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
18095 pthreads libraries.
18097 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
18098 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
18102 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
18103 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
18104 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
18105 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
18106 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
18109 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
18110 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18111 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
18112 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
18113 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
18114 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
18115 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
18116 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
18119 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
18121 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
18122 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
18123 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
18124 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
18125 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
18126 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
18128 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
18129 temporarily unreachable.
18130 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
18134 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
18135 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
18136 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
18137 our protocol works.
18138 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
18142 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
18143 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
18144 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
18145 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
18146 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
18150 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
18151 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
18152 libevent before 1.1a.
18155 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
18157 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
18158 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
18159 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
18160 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
18161 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
18163 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
18164 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
18165 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
18166 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
18167 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
18168 of CPU time plus memory.
18169 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
18170 normal web requests.
18171 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
18172 tor_lookup_hostname().
18173 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
18174 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
18175 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
18176 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
18177 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
18178 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
18180 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
18181 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
18182 HttpProxyAuthenticator
18183 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
18184 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
18185 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
18187 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
18188 the user asks you to.
18189 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
18190 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
18191 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
18192 their descriptors are being rejected.
18193 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
18197 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
18199 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
18200 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
18201 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
18203 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
18205 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
18207 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
18208 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
18209 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
18210 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
18211 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
18212 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
18213 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
18214 keys) from the exit server's process.
18215 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
18216 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
18217 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
18218 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
18219 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
18220 point at your Tor server.
18221 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
18222 you're not sending a socks reply back.
18225 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
18226 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
18227 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
18228 to make it easier to write controllers.
18231 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
18233 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
18234 installing on Tiger.
18235 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
18236 complain during installation.
18237 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
18238 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
18239 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
18240 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
18241 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
18242 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
18244 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
18245 something more reasonable when first installing.
18246 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
18249 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
18251 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
18252 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
18254 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
18255 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
18256 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
18257 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
18258 when using the default exit policy.
18259 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
18260 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
18261 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
18262 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
18263 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
18264 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
18265 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
18266 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
18267 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
18268 we fetched a new directory.
18269 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
18270 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
18273 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
18274 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
18275 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
18276 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
18277 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
18278 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
18279 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
18280 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
18282 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
18283 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
18284 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
18285 save memory on systems that need to fork.
18286 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
18287 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
18288 is valid without actually launching Tor.
18289 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
18290 rather than just rejecting it.
18293 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
18295 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
18296 we didn't like its cert.
18298 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
18299 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
18300 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
18301 on patch from Adam Langley.
18302 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
18303 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
18304 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
18305 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
18307 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
18308 directory every time you regenerate it.
18309 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
18310 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
18313 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
18314 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18315 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
18316 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
18317 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
18320 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
18322 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
18323 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
18324 TLS errors better in other situations too.
18325 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
18326 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
18327 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
18328 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
18329 and don't log when you are.
18330 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
18331 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
18333 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
18334 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
18335 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
18336 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
18337 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
18340 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
18341 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
18342 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
18343 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
18344 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
18345 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
18346 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
18347 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
18348 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
18349 nickname+key are allowed.
18350 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
18351 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
18352 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
18353 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
18354 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
18355 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
18356 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
18357 have quite wrong clocks).
18358 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
18359 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
18360 - Efficiency improvements:
18361 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
18362 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
18363 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
18364 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
18365 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
18366 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
18367 lowercase and be done with it.
18368 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
18369 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
18370 to abandon partially built circuits.
18371 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
18372 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
18374 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
18376 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
18377 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
18378 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
18379 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
18381 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
18382 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
18384 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
18385 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
18386 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
18387 obeying the exit policy internally.
18388 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
18389 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
18391 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
18392 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
18393 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
18394 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
18396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
18397 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
18398 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
18399 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
18400 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
18402 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
18403 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
18404 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
18405 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
18406 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
18407 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
18408 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
18409 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
18410 descriptors we just dropped.
18411 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
18412 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
18413 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
18414 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
18415 artificially capped at 500kB.
18418 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
18419 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18420 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
18421 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
18422 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
18423 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
18424 busy for more than 100 seconds.
18427 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
18428 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
18429 - Fixes on reachability detection:
18430 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
18431 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
18432 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
18433 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
18434 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
18435 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
18436 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
18437 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
18438 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
18439 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
18440 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
18441 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
18442 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
18443 server not already connected to them.
18444 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
18445 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
18446 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
18448 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
18450 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
18451 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
18452 are in a different state than they actually are.
18453 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
18454 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
18455 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
18457 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
18458 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
18459 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
18461 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
18462 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
18463 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
18464 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
18465 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
18466 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
18467 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
18469 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
18470 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
18471 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
18472 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
18475 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
18476 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18477 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
18478 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
18479 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
18480 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
18481 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
18482 creating actual system users.
18483 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
18484 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
18488 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
18490 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
18491 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
18492 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
18493 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
18494 hidden services better.
18495 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
18497 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
18498 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
18499 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
18500 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
18501 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
18502 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
18503 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
18504 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
18505 patch by Matt Edman).
18506 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
18507 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
18508 required exit node for certain sites.
18509 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
18510 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
18511 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
18512 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
18513 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
18514 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
18515 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
18516 rather than just "success" or "failure".
18517 - A more sane version numbering system. See
18518 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
18519 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
18520 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
18522 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
18523 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
18524 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
18525 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
18526 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
18527 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
18528 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
18530 o Robustness/stability fixes:
18531 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
18532 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
18533 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
18535 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
18536 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
18537 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
18539 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
18540 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
18541 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
18543 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
18544 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
18545 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
18546 that will want high uptime circuits.
18547 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
18548 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
18549 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
18550 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
18551 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
18552 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
18553 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
18554 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
18555 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
18556 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
18557 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
18558 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
18559 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
18560 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
18561 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
18562 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
18563 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
18564 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
18565 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
18566 when we try to launch one.
18567 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
18568 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
18569 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
18570 "ShutdownWaitLength".
18571 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
18572 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
18573 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
18574 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
18575 and to take errno into account where possible.
18578 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
18579 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
18580 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
18581 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
18582 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
18583 file more reasonable.
18584 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
18585 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
18586 addresses -- it won't.
18587 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
18588 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
18589 for google.com" problem.
18590 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
18591 so it's not just "unknown platform".
18592 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
18593 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
18594 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
18595 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
18597 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
18598 they could use instead.
18599 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
18600 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
18601 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
18602 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
18603 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
18604 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
18605 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
18606 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
18607 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
18609 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
18613 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
18614 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
18616 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
18617 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
18618 private-IP addresses.
18619 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
18620 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
18622 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
18623 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
18624 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
18625 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
18626 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
18627 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
18628 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
18630 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
18631 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
18632 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
18633 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
18634 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
18635 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
18636 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
18637 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
18639 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
18641 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
18642 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
18643 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
18644 whether the server is hibernating.
18647 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
18648 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
18649 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
18650 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
18651 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
18652 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
18653 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
18654 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
18655 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
18656 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
18657 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
18658 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
18659 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
18660 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
18661 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
18663 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
18664 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
18665 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
18666 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
18667 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
18668 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
18669 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
18670 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
18671 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
18672 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
18673 existing torrc files.
18674 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
18677 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
18678 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
18679 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
18680 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
18681 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
18682 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
18683 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
18684 the win32 SYSTEM account.
18685 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
18686 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
18687 file descriptors available.
18688 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
18689 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
18690 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
18693 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
18694 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18695 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
18696 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
18698 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
18699 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
18700 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
18701 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
18702 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
18704 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
18705 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
18706 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
18707 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
18708 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
18709 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
18710 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
18711 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
18712 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
18713 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
18714 800kB/s of capacity.
18715 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
18718 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
18719 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18720 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
18721 need as much processor time.
18722 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
18723 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
18724 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
18725 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
18726 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
18727 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
18728 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
18729 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
18730 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
18731 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
18732 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
18733 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
18735 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
18736 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
18737 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
18738 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
18739 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
18740 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
18741 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
18744 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
18745 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
18746 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
18748 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
18749 style address, then we'd crash.
18750 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
18751 a dirserver is broken.
18752 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
18754 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
18755 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
18756 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
18758 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
18759 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
18760 name out of the warning/assert messages.
18761 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
18762 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
18763 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
18765 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
18766 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
18767 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
18769 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
18771 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
18772 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
18773 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
18774 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
18775 values at once couldn't work.
18776 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
18777 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
18778 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
18779 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
18780 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
18781 they can handle any number of routers.
18782 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
18783 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
18784 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
18785 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
18786 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
18787 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
18788 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
18789 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
18790 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
18793 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
18794 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
18795 - Make hibernation actually work.
18796 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
18797 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
18798 don't use the stream status code.
18801 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
18803 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
18804 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
18806 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
18809 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
18810 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
18811 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
18812 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
18813 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
18814 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
18815 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
18816 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
18817 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
18818 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
18820 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18821 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
18822 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
18823 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
18824 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
18825 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
18826 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
18827 - Make unit tests work on win32.
18830 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
18831 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
18832 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
18834 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
18835 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
18836 than just chopping them off.
18837 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
18839 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18840 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
18841 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
18842 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
18843 right after sending the begin cell.
18844 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
18845 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
18846 exit nodes too. Oops.
18849 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
18850 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
18851 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
18852 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
18853 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
18854 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
18855 the user knows which one it's talking about.
18856 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
18857 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
18858 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
18861 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
18862 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18863 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
18864 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
18866 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
18868 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
18869 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
18870 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
18872 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
18873 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
18874 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
18875 Clip rather than rejecting.
18876 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
18877 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
18880 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
18881 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
18882 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
18883 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
18885 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
18888 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
18889 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18890 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
18891 win32 socket errors better.
18893 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18894 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
18897 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
18898 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18899 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
18900 so we don't see those messages days later.
18902 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18903 - Make tor-resolve work again.
18904 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
18905 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
18908 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
18909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
18910 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
18911 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
18913 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
18914 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
18915 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
18918 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
18919 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18920 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
18921 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
18922 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
18923 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
18924 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
18925 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
18926 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
18928 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
18929 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
18930 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
18931 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
18933 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
18934 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
18937 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
18938 hibernation properties by
18939 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
18940 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
18941 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
18942 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
18943 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
18944 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
18945 get back to normal.)
18946 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
18948 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
18949 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
18950 to fill the last cell completely.
18951 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
18954 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
18955 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
18956 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
18957 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
18958 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
18959 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
18960 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
18961 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
18962 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
18963 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
18964 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
18966 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
18967 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
18968 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
18969 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
18970 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
18971 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
18972 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
18973 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
18975 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
18976 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
18977 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
18978 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
18979 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
18980 have it on start-up.
18983 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
18984 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
18985 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
18986 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
18987 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
18988 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
18989 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
18990 configuration to torrc.
18991 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
18992 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
18993 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
18994 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
18995 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
18997 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
18998 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
18999 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
19000 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
19001 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
19002 log more informatively.
19003 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
19004 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
19005 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
19006 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
19007 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
19008 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
19009 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
19010 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
19011 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
19012 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
19013 from each other, to hinder linkability.
19016 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
19017 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
19018 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
19019 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
19020 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
19021 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
19022 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
19024 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
19025 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
19026 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
19027 they ran out of file descriptors.
19028 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
19029 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
19030 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
19031 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
19032 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
19033 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
19034 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
19036 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
19039 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
19040 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
19041 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
19042 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
19043 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
19044 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
19045 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
19046 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
19047 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
19048 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
19049 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
19050 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
19051 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
19052 with the control port.
19053 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
19054 use in authenticating to the control interface.
19055 - New log format in config:
19056 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
19057 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
19060 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
19061 from their dirserver.
19062 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
19064 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
19065 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
19066 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
19067 them act more like real nodes.
19068 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
19069 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
19071 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
19072 nickname to its identity key.
19073 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
19074 not on the command line.
19075 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
19076 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
19077 1024) file descriptors.
19079 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
19080 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
19082 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
19083 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
19084 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
19087 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
19088 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
19089 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
19090 exit policy, not reject *:*.
19091 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
19092 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
19093 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
19094 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
19095 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
19096 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
19097 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
19100 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
19101 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
19102 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
19103 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
19104 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
19105 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
19106 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
19109 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
19110 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
19111 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
19112 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
19113 the ones we find in directories.)
19114 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
19116 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
19117 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
19119 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
19120 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
19121 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
19123 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
19124 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
19125 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
19126 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
19128 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
19129 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
19130 any more exit policy lines.
19133 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
19134 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
19135 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
19136 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
19137 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
19138 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
19139 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
19140 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
19141 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
19142 will be able to get a directory.
19143 - Http proxy support
19144 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
19145 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
19146 be routed through this host.
19147 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
19148 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
19149 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
19150 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
19153 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
19155 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
19156 clients/servers with an open dirport.
19157 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
19158 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
19159 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
19160 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
19161 intermittent connections.
19162 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
19163 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
19165 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
19166 in reporting stats locally.
19167 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
19168 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
19169 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
19172 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
19174 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
19175 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
19178 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
19180 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
19181 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
19182 if you don't want it open.
19183 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
19184 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
19185 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
19186 intermittent connections.
19187 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
19189 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
19190 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
19191 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
19192 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
19193 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
19194 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
19195 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
19196 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
19197 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
19198 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
19199 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
19200 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
19201 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
19202 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
19203 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
19204 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
19207 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
19208 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
19209 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
19210 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
19211 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
19213 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
19215 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
19216 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
19217 specified in HTTP 1.0.
19218 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
19219 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
19220 than once per minute.
19221 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
19222 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
19225 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
19226 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
19229 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
19230 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
19231 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
19232 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
19235 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
19236 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
19238 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
19239 don't put it into the client dns cache.
19240 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
19241 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
19242 until we get our next directory.
19244 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
19245 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
19246 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
19247 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
19248 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
19249 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
19250 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
19251 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
19252 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
19253 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
19254 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
19256 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
19258 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
19259 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
19261 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
19262 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
19263 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
19265 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
19267 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
19268 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
19269 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
19270 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
19271 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
19272 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
19273 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
19274 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
19277 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
19278 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
19279 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
19280 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
19283 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
19284 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
19285 ask them to resolve the host "".
19288 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
19289 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
19290 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
19291 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
19292 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
19293 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
19294 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
19295 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
19296 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
19297 clients don't use this yet.)
19298 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
19299 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
19300 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
19301 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
19302 for pointing out this bug.)
19303 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
19304 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
19305 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
19306 kazaa, gnutella ports.
19307 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
19309 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
19310 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
19311 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
19312 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
19313 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
19314 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
19315 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
19316 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
19317 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
19318 wolf unpredictably.
19319 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
19320 that's still handshaking.
19321 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
19322 you'll choose it for your path.
19323 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
19324 end relay cell, etc.
19325 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
19326 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
19327 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
19330 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
19331 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
19333 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
19334 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
19335 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
19336 list to decide who's running or verified.
19337 - Bugfixes and features:
19338 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
19339 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
19340 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
19341 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
19342 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
19343 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
19345 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
19346 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
19347 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
19348 know you might want to get it verified.
19349 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
19352 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
19354 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
19355 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
19356 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
19357 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
19359 o Protocol changes:
19360 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
19361 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
19362 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
19363 hadn't heard of before.
19366 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
19367 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
19368 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
19369 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
19370 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
19371 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
19372 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
19373 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
19374 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
19375 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
19376 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
19377 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
19378 - Directory caching.
19379 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
19380 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
19381 directory they've pulled down.
19382 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
19383 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
19384 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
19385 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
19386 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
19387 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
19388 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
19390 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
19391 This isn't used yet.
19392 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
19393 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
19394 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
19395 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
19396 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
19397 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
19398 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
19399 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
19400 - File and name management:
19401 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
19402 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
19404 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
19405 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
19406 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
19407 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
19408 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
19409 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
19410 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
19412 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
19413 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
19414 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
19415 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
19416 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
19418 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
19419 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
19420 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
19421 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
19422 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
19423 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
19424 - New docs in the tarball:
19426 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
19429 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
19430 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
19431 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
19434 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
19435 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
19436 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
19439 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
19440 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
19443 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
19444 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
19445 - Make it build on Win32 again.
19446 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
19447 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
19451 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
19453 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
19454 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
19455 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
19456 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
19457 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
19458 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
19459 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
19460 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
19461 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
19462 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
19465 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
19468 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
19469 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
19470 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
19471 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
19473 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
19474 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
19475 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
19477 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
19478 hidden service per 15-minute period.
19479 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
19480 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
19481 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
19482 o Fixes for security bugs:
19483 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
19484 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
19485 a trusted dirserver.
19487 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
19488 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
19489 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
19490 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
19491 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
19492 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
19493 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
19494 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
19495 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
19496 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
19498 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
19499 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
19500 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
19501 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
19503 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
19504 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
19505 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
19506 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
19507 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
19508 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
19509 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
19510 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
19511 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
19512 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
19513 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
19514 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
19515 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
19518 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
19519 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
19520 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
19521 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
19524 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
19525 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
19526 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
19527 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
19528 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
19529 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
19530 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
19534 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
19535 [version bump only]
19538 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
19539 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
19540 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
19541 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
19542 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
19544 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
19547 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
19548 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
19549 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
19550 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
19551 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
19552 o Better debugging for tls errors
19553 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
19554 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
19555 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
19556 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
19557 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
19558 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
19559 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
19560 o win32's close can't close a socket.
19563 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
19564 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
19565 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
19566 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
19567 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
19568 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
19569 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
19570 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
19571 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
19572 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
19573 just close the circ.
19574 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
19575 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
19576 (this was quite rare).
19579 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
19580 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
19581 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
19582 if you decrypted them correctly.
19583 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
19584 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
19585 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
19588 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
19589 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
19590 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
19591 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
19592 a second one and it works.
19593 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
19594 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
19595 alice would just have to wait to time out.
19596 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
19597 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
19598 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
19599 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
19600 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
19601 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
19602 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
19603 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
19604 i'd still like to find the bug though.
19605 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
19607 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
19611 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
19612 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
19613 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
19614 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
19615 he retries a couple of times
19616 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
19617 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
19618 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
19619 too long (they were sticking around forever).
19620 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
19624 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
19625 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
19626 - make hup work again
19627 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
19628 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
19629 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
19630 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
19631 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
19632 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
19634 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
19635 o changes from 0.0.5:
19636 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
19637 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
19638 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
19639 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
19640 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
19642 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
19643 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
19644 in-memory directories too
19647 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
19648 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
19651 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
19653 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
19654 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
19655 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
19656 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
19659 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
19660 [version bump only]
19663 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
19664 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
19666 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
19667 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
19668 but that aren't warnings
19671 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
19672 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
19673 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
19674 the dns farm to do it.
19675 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
19676 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
19678 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
19679 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
19680 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
19683 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
19684 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
19685 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
19686 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
19687 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
19688 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
19689 expect it to have a nickname.
19690 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
19691 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
19694 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
19695 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
19699 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
19700 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
19701 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
19702 - include missing header fcntl.h
19703 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
19704 - deal with hardware word alignment
19705 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
19706 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
19707 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
19708 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
19709 by kill -USR1 currently.
19710 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
19711 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
19712 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
19715 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
19716 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
19717 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
19720 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
19722 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
19723 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
19724 - And fix a few endian issues.
19727 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
19729 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
19730 try that circuit again: try a new one.
19731 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
19732 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
19733 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
19734 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
19735 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
19736 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
19738 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
19739 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
19740 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
19742 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
19744 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
19745 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
19746 side isn't reading right then.
19747 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
19748 RecommendedVersions
19749 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
19750 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
19751 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
19754 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
19756 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
19757 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
19760 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
19764 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
19766 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
19767 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
19768 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
19769 connection is finished.
19770 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
19771 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
19772 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
19773 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
19774 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
19775 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
19776 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
19777 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
19778 rather than warn and continue.
19779 - Make --version work
19780 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
19783 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
19785 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
19786 knows it's working.
19787 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
19788 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
19790 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
19791 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
19792 so you can collect coredumps there.
19794 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
19795 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
19796 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
19797 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
19798 dns cache actually gets populated.
19799 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
19800 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
19801 end cell down it first.
19802 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
19803 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
19806 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
19808 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
19809 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
19811 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
19812 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
19813 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
19814 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
19815 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
19816 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
19818 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
19820 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
19821 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
19822 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
19823 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
19824 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
19825 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
19827 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
19828 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
19831 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
19833 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
19834 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
19835 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
19836 tor. It even has a man page.
19837 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
19838 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
19839 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
19840 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
19842 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
19844 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
19847 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
19849 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
19850 it, apt-getters. :)
19851 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
19852 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
19853 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
19854 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
19855 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
19856 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
19857 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
19858 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
19859 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
19860 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
19861 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
19863 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
19864 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
19867 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
19869 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
19870 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
19873 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
19875 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
19876 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
19877 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
19878 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
19879 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
19880 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
19881 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
19882 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
19883 logfile so you know it's working.
19884 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
19885 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
19888 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
19890 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
19891 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
19892 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
19895 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
19897 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
19898 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
19899 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
19902 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
19903 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
19904 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
19906 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
19907 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
19909 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
19910 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
19911 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
19913 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
19914 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
19918 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
19920 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
19921 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
19922 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
19925 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
19926 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
19927 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
19928 - Add port ranges to exit policies
19929 - Add a conservative default exit policy
19930 - Warn if you're running tor as root
19931 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
19932 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
19933 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
19934 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
19936 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
19939 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
19940 o Robustness and bugfixes:
19941 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
19942 really screw things up.
19943 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
19945 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
19946 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
19948 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
19949 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
19950 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
19951 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
19952 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
19953 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
19956 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
19959 - Change default loglevel to warn.
19960 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
19961 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
19963 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
19966 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
19967 o Robustness and bugfixes:
19968 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
19969 - to get ownership/permissions right
19970 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
19971 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
19972 pull down a directory again
19973 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
19974 causing server crashes
19975 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
19976 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
19977 - exit if bind() fails
19978 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
19979 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
19980 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
19981 - fix minor bias in PRNG
19982 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
19985 - Wrote the design document (woo)
19987 o Circuit building and exit policies:
19988 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
19990 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
19991 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
19992 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
19993 exists, rather than failing
19994 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
19995 which AP connections are standing by
19996 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
19997 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
19998 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
20000 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
20001 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
20004 - APPort is now called SocksPort
20005 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
20007 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
20008 hardcoded (for dirservers)
20009 - Reloads config on HUP
20010 - Usage info on -h or --help
20011 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
20014 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
20015 o General stability:
20016 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
20017 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
20018 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
20019 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
20020 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
20021 to take down the network when I approve a new router
20022 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
20025 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
20026 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
20028 o Autoconf improvements:
20029 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
20030 - Make install now works
20031 - create var/lib/tor on make install
20032 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
20033 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
20035 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
20036 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
20037 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
20038 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup